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
Engadget has a report about the new Vonage WiFi phone and a report the next generation of the Treo Handspring, the 610, will be a WiFi ready phone for Vonage. This circles back to the Vonage relationship with Texas Instruments and other chip manufacturers announced earlier.
A report out of Tel Aviv, Israel has HOT the cable company in Israel announcing today that Lucent has won HOT’s tender for setting up its IP telephony services network. The deal is valued at $100M over 5 years, in Israeli terms is considered a blockbuster mega-deal, according to our source. Insiders say this was … Read more
PaidContent.org has a story item about New York’s YES Network creating a broadband delivery model. I have for many years been saying that the telcos are the next cable tv network and if they want to deliver true content over DSL, that sports and movies will lead the way. Imagine VoIP and Sports, plus Sports … Read more
MuniWireless, one of the best sites covering public deployments of WiFI has a story about a Michigan city deploying the first WiFi with VoIP network. This is the first of what the company, Ottawa Wireless plans to do in the state. I expect more of this to happen around the USA. The price of $20 … Read more
