In the past I’ve said we’re seeing the day coming of the global carrier for telephony in the branded service offering sense that can be seen as leveraging the capabilities of VoIP for global remote workers of multi-national firms and expats. I feel with the announcement today by AT&T that the day has arrived. While … Read more
With SBC playing the role of integrator and Cisco being the hardware supplier, Ford Motor Company will go VoIP over the next few years. Now, this does not mean that SBC is getting the business to manage and handle the data network. A few years back they struck a deal with Cisco to do just … Read more
Skype will not have a PALM OS client. I don’t know where that idea came from in the first place, for I was at Demo and know that SKYPE would support such a platform but I don’t recall them saying how far along they were. Now the facts seem to be getting clearer. PALM is … Read more
The National Post in Canada has a story about the overall impact of VoIP in Canada. One point they make is that a research company claims VoIP has 15,000 users in Canada. Another is the fear of teh rise of the cable companies as telcos in Canada. Canada is a great market to conduct trials … Read more
San Jose Mercury News uber blogger Dan Gillmor sings the praise of Skype. Some of the comments are hilarious.
Keith of VoIPNuke, who has resold Packet8 longer than anyone I know, pointed me to the new P8 referral program. This is taking a page out of both Vonage and AT&T’s playbook. There is nothing more than one happy customer telling others about the service. Word of Mouth is the most valuable..next to word of … Read more
This is very similar to what the cable industry did for cable tv wih commercials over broadcast TV from the same people who did that. Right now none of the cable carriers are signed up. The focus is to get the number out to the carriers and cable operators under a licencing arrangement. What the … Read more
James points out how Skype is keeping the numbers out in front of the public, taking a page from McDonalds.
First it was Skype, now it’s San Diego’s Viper Networks. Take a gander. Viper has a good story, the question is, who is using the service and how good is it? I like the idea that they want to be the player in the WiFi VoIP market. Their strategy is though rather unclear, other than … Read more
Yak has introduced a VoIP service platform to compete with the likes of Vonage. What I’m most interested is how the price of $19.99 a month seems to be where most of the carriers are landing. I think that’s about right and fully expect to see add-ons down the road being added to the price … Read more
