More Hot Zones, More 4G, More Connected

AT&T is touting how they are bringing more public hotspots to New York and San Francisco to help with what is called Wi-Fi offload for connected devices, like the iPhone and iPad. ClearWire has lit up San Francisco officially, What does this mean. For folks with iPads and the 5th generation iPod touch with only … Read more

Why Google Can Enter Video Conferencing

TechCrunch is reporting that Google plans to go into the video conferencing space in a big way. Here’s why they can do it. 1. Google purchased Marratech back in 2007. This gave them a platform that enabled multi-party video calling and presentation 2. Google purchased my former client GIPS this year. GIPS gives the incredible … Read more

Why Google Can Enter Video Conferencing

TechCrunch is reporting that Google plans to go into the video conferencing space in a big way. Here’s why they can do it. 1. Google purchased Marratech back in 2007. This gave them a platform that enabled multi-party video calling and presentation 2. Google purchased my former client GIPS this year. GIPS gives the incredible … Read more

The Taxman Cometh To VoIP (Again)

Skype may want to look at how they bill all of us in 2011, as taxes are about to hit online calling companies as states and municipalities get tougher to make up the lost revenue from landline and coin box pay phones. This is not the first time we have seen this type of thing come … Read more

Sending Party Pays

I’ve been saying that Sending Party Pays will come one day, ever since pal Martin Geddes explained it over dinner. Well it looks like that day is about to arrive. With Sprint now adding 4G roaming, this makes the model a lot more attractive to the carriers.

VoIP Is Still Growing

I have to always chide pal Alec Saunders who a few years back was on the VoIP is dead bandwagon. We all know in serious tones that not only is it alive. It’s growing as Junction Network’s news of them signing their 10,000th customer proves. Congrats guys.