Research In Motion (RIM) has gone over the top with BlackBerry Messenger and Voice calling with the addition of BBM to BBM user calling according to FierceMobileContent. Basically, this means that calls between BBM users are free, anywhere, and part of the data plan. Imagine if Apple did that or Google/Android did this, the carriers … Read more
Two interesting conferences are coming up. One in Washington D.C. and the second in San Francisco. On Thursday November 15 in D.C. is the Voice Innovation Summit organized by longtime VoIP insider Dan Berninger. What I like about it is the cross section of traditional, regulatory and cutting edge new thinkers that Dan has assembled. … Read more
With Microsoft looking like they are killing off Windows Live Messenger by consolidating the functionality and back end engineering into Skype, one has to wonder if the interoperability that never really came of much between Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger (if it still worked) will still be in place. I doubt it. One of … Read more
I have been following the company known as Iliiad the owners of the Free brand in France since I sat a few tables away from their founder at the now shuttered Atelier Berger (it has since reopened under new owners and new name A La Margauritte and is quite good as well. Free disrupted telecom first … Read more
Two stories in WirelessWeek on the subject of LTE that have been covered in a few places caught my eye and demanded amplification. The first is about Verizon's Rural Program and a rural mobile operator in Tennessee, Blugrass Cellular joining the Verizon LTE enablement program. This is very smart business for both parties as it quickly … Read more
Engadget reports that Skype is adding Pre-Paid as a way to top off, making them look more and more like a mobile operator. They're retailing Pre-Paid cards at a slew of technology and consumer shops across the UK, much like they are already doing in Mexico. What this means is those without credit cards, or … Read more
According to most recent surveys, passengers don't want in flight calling on airliners flying around the globe. That's interesting because for many years GTE (now a part of Verizon) had an in flight calling service where phones were one every row, and each first class seat had a phone. I was one of those people … Read more
As someone who has been using Boingo's VPN service on my iPhone and iPad, I love how elegantly it works, and what it does to protect sensistive transmissions in places where one never knows who may be snooping, so when I saw the news in Engadget about Boingo adding their VPN feature to Mac and … Read more
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Hurricane Sandy proved something. Our infrastructure for communications isn't hurricane proof. As the New York Times reports on what the FCC has determeined, it seems the northeastern United States became in spots a country back in the sixties, where the only thing that seemed to work was a wired landline and one … Read more
8×8 #latergram (Photo credit: qthrul) I was really impressed with what one of my agency's client's did when it came to communicating with their customer base surround Hurricane Sandy. Cloud communications leader, 8×8 sent out an email pointing to a web page that had a Disaster Planning document, all geared around the concept of maintaining communications … Read more
