After a lot of effort I was finally able to get my new Verizon 6600 to work on WiFi. I tried a Skype call over WiFi and the quality sucked. It may have been the Starbucks I was at, or it may be something else. I plan on more testing, but the ordeal to make … Read more
SIPthat.com: Xten SIP Softphone for Linux is a nice step. Now this will work on the Linspire PC’s, like the new $499 laptop.
Esme has a note about Jesse Drucker’s Wall Street Journal’s story about WiFi and how the cellular companies are concerned.
Roughly two years ago or so I spoke with Starbucks VP, Anne Saunders, their Biz Dev wonderkind who put the hotspot deal together with T-Mobile after Mobilestar went under. During the interview I asked her about power outlets, saying “as you know WiFi draws down a battery faster than a normal PC.” Saunders replied saying … Read more
A telecom consultant in South Carolina writes a nice story about the FCC and VoIP regulation. The thinking here is rather consistent with what all of us waving the VoIP flag have been saying. Keep the states and local governments away from VoIP for now.
I think this new blog called Real-Time will be worthy of keeping an eye out. The author writes for BCR (Business Communications Review) one of the best authorities in Enterprise IP Voice related topics and he’s also with The Burton Group. Those two factors gives him instant credibility in my book.
HTC, considered the best assemblers of tiny devices like the PDA phone that is marketed by many wireless carriers really wants to piss off their customers in the cell phone business–THE CARRIERS. They want to bundle in Skype with Microsoft Smartphones. I think Microsoft may be concerned too, but not that much. For Skype to … Read more
The Portland International Airport offers free WiFi all through the airport. So while Jeff Pulver raves about the free access at Jet Blue locations here’s one he would go nuts over. WiFi everywhere. In the shopping / restaurant arcade area, in the terminals…just about anywhere I can find…Now this is a great airport.
A Voice over WiFi technology that becomes available when you enter a hotspot location was announced by a Sweedish firm with the concept behind it called “context aware.” The idea is simple. When you enter a hotspot, part of the authentication includes the installation of VoWiFi/VoIP software. How this works and what corporate IT professionals … Read more
Bee Telecom out of Montreal wants to create a phone booth out of every hotspot according to a News.com report. The idea isn’t that far fetched as that’s similar to what SBC wants to do via FreedomLink as a cellular alternative.
