Long thought of as just a dial up player with borrowed infrastructure, the boys from Atlanta last year quietly launched a VoIP service called Unlimited Voice. Like so much of Earthlinks product portfolio the service comes from other companies, with this service coming reportedly from Vonage. When you add in that Eartlink private labels wireless … Read more
Skype is at DemoMobile 2004 in La Jolla today. They passed out a press release in the press room about Skype on the Pocket PC featuring WiFi and SkypeOut so calls can terminate to PSTN. The key is the aspect that Skype Out will be part of the 1.0 release. Add Skype out to a … Read more
What I like about Vonage is they are always thinking ahead. So this idea, which I actually had and experimented with Webley back in 2002/2003 with using my Sony Vaio Picturebook, a hacked version of Windows Messenger and from Starbucks is really not breakthrough to me, but it is a great idea. Make a WiFi … Read more
Nancy Gohring at WiFi Net News has a nice post and links to a story that seems to be building in New York to use WiFi and VoIP together. The whole idea of WiFi phoning is something that I feel will be totally disruptive to the cellular industry, which is why T-Mobile is involved so … Read more
This afternoon I was in a Starbucks where the hotspot operator is T-Mobile. Offering full T-1’s I figured with bad cell reception in the coffee shop, that it would be a perfect time for me to use my Vonage softphone and the Clarysis handset. What a dissaster. Even with the excellent bandwidth at Starbucks that … Read more
The ITU will issue in September a report entitled “The Portable Internet” and the tease promises details on “disruptive technologies.” Certainly WiFi has been and will continue to be disruptive as it has leapfrogged GPRS and EVDO in many ways when the idea of Portable versus Mobile is applied. That said, in the portable arena … Read more
The ITU will issue in September a report entitled “The Portable Internet” and the tease promises details on “disruptive technologies.” Certainly WiFi has been and will continue to be disruptive as it has leapfrogged GPRS and EVDO in many ways when the idea of Portable versus Mobile is applied. That said, in the portable arena … Read more
Ottawa Wireless, the company in Michigan which is making whole towns wireless using a combination of 802.11b and an 802.11a backhaul service plans to launch a VoIP service later this year. Now you ask, who needs this kind of service when a cell phone already exists. Well that’s right, but this is cheaper for staters. … Read more
Viper Networks, based in my backyard in San Diego announced a win in Brazil. Viper, which is rather tightlipped other than in issuing press releases, seems to be building a business based on either installations with carriers who can sell their VoIP service or through resellers. They remain a company to watch.
Well after some doing, I finally got the XyZEL Prestige 2000 WiFi SIP handset working. About the size of a candy bar style cell phone, I could not get it to work with either the Microsoft 802.11g or Netgear Travel router (bummer) as it could not pick up the DHCP, so I went out and … Read more
