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
Okay I missed one yesterday. The branding issue between AT&T Wireless and AT&T got me, and I should know better. AT&T Wireless is the company which was sold to Cingular. That explains the high prices. Now, to add even more confusion, AT&T–the long distance, data and VoIP folks will launch an MVNO for wireless called … Read more
The Register, one of the world’s best IT related web sites has a stunning recap about the recent VON Conference. While much of the news came out last week, the thorougness of the news account and the balance make it worthwhile reading. The author gets into the disruptive nature of SKYPE, the challenges of implementing … Read more
In what may be a public first, Vonage demonstrated VoEV-DO with Verizon’s Broadband Access this morning. The point of the exercise was to prove that Vonage, and other VoIP services can work over mobile broadband networks. I’ll have to try it soon, as I have the both the Vonage softphone and Verizon’s EV-DO on the … Read more
Om Malik, on GigaOm today, highlights the return of wireless broadband (ie. LMDS/MMDS) and it’s blooming love affair with VoIP. I agree that the new carriers are smart in looking to be telco replacements. In addition to voice the demand will also be for entertainment. Over the weekend I purchased a new Gateway Windows Media … Read more
Comcast is testing a new combined cable modem and VoIP adapter in a few cities, according to Light Reading. I’m also hearing reports that D-Link will release a line of in home networking equipment at SuperComm in a few weeks that includes a wireless adapter that has built in VoIP.
In the film “Field of Dreams” Ray Kinsella hears the voice say “if you build it, they will come.” Well that philosophy pretty much is what is happening with Voice over WiFi. If the carriers build the infrastructure to enable mobile phones to work both over cellular networks and Wi-Fi networks, the customers will come. … Read more
One of the biggest hurdles for developers and users of softphones has been the pesky issue of NAT transversal. Without getting too technical, NAT which stands for Network Address Translation is what allows one IP address to be routed to many and have the right data end up on the right device from the outside … Read more
