The VoIP tax and regulation issue far from settled on the state level. With the California local municipalities trying to charge the VoIP providers a tax the local issue may be an even hotter debate topic. After two days, I’ve yet to hear back from the “consultant” Don Maynard, a Silicon Valley attorney, who is … Read more
Four companies have been approved in South Korea to offer VoIP. Already blessed with some of the fastest broadband and wireless broadband in the world, and Hanaro, one of the more early deployers of SIP in Asia, look for rapid consumer and business uptake. What I find interesting in the story is that the regulators … Read more
If it isn’t obvious by now, the line of Linksys VoIP products are popping up everywhere from three main carriers, AT&T’s CallVantage, Verizon VoiceWing and Vonage. Here’s a list, supplied by Linksys, of which products are available out of the box for the carriers. Phone Adapter with 2 Phone Ports PAP2 … Read more
Digital pioneer Dave Winer
Lawrence Lessig
MTV star Adam Curry at Bloggercon
Mac maven Sam Levin
Today S&P cut the rating of Level3 basically pushing them into junk bond status. That has to have some industry watchers wondering how safe a bet Level3 really is.
Om Malik, has an interesting post about becoming your own phone company if you are a large corporation based upon a Baseline magazine account about Heinz, the ketchup people. This is exactly the space that companies coming onto the scene are playing, especially Cisco, which a few years ago announced integration alliance with the traditional … Read more
What’s all the broohaha about 911. Call 911 from you cellphone in California and you want the local police, and you have to go through the Highway patrol emergency operator, which can take many minutes, not seconds. I think the FUD about 911 is overhyped and the alternative routes to reach the emergency operator are … Read more
