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
I may be a day late on this but I have to agree on this point. Without standards confusion will rule and that will lead to government regulation. Remember, the government that governs best, governs least. Self regulation is the key and that means standards.
VoIPNuke.com tipped me off to this story about the US DSIA going to a VoIP mindset. In some ways this could be good for MCI, one of the biggest government suppliers for IP network services. It also may be good for Level3 as they have been making in-roads in that direction of late and my … Read more
