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Texas Attorney General sues Vonage over 911 issue. Tom Keating adds his two cents..

Engadget has a photo of what should be the new ZyXel WiFi phone. Based on what I saw at Spring VON it still won’t handle authentication on a pay for WiFi network like T-Mobile or Boigo easily.    

Recently Vonage founder Jeffrey Citron said something to the affect that “on average, between $150 and $200 per customer. It’s a highly volatile number” when asked about acquisition costs. Based on my calculations previously and that of others, we all fee that is way low. But how does Vonage track those costs? Is it total … Read more

Russell Shaw has a take on the VoIP/Cellular market cannibalization. I’ve always felt that the wirless carriers are ideal players to enter the VoIP game. I continue to think that users, especially consumers want more services from less suppliers. If the cable companies ever lived through the Sprint PCS deal, which they didn’t, they would … Read more

Om has a post that includes comments from Burton Group Analyst Irwin Lazar about Enterprise VoIP and how Microsoft enters the equation. I think that the Enterprise is where the money is. AT&T is clearly headed in that direction. With the SBC merger one has to realize that SBC is already working with Cisco as … Read more

One of my favorite bloggers who is also a journalist, Mark Evans asks How Good Does VOIP Have to Be? He’s come to the same conclusion that I have. Most of what we are seeing in the way of VoIP is PSTN replacement, not breakthrough technology that changes how we use the phone.

EuroTelcoblog touts Skype via Riaan.

VoIP and ENUM wrongly rips XTEN. I’m not sure what Richard heard, but the call looked and sounded rather good at the VON. Perhaps it was on Richard’s end with the IETF crowd.

Sometime this week I’ll be flying with my fiance over to France for a Post Telecom mania month for my passion and other writing habit. Wine. I’ll also do some work too… While I’m away I’ll blog some, but not as much as you normally see. At some point the batteries need to be recharged and … Read more

Telepocalypse by Martin Geddes: Details, details rips XTEN, pans Pulver and well, sorta gives Skype the passing grade. Martin is like Aswath. Too darn smart. I love when Martin pulls things apart and still finds a way to be nice in his style.