BT over in London are opening what are being labeled, broadband shops, to show off their new fiber to the cabinet service that delivers 40 meg connections into the home. In years gone by, the cable operators had town by town customer service locations, but those have gone bye bye for the most part. Given … Read more
Sprint is rolling out it’s 4G service as fast as it can and to prove it they have announced the 3G/4G dongle/broadband modem. Right now it’s Windows only, but I have to figure a Macintosh version will be out soon. One thing to note, is that 4G broadband is unlimited, while 3G has transfer capacity … Read more
MobileCrunch and others are reporting that Sprint may be bought by T-Mobile. For the Record- I prognosticated that one almost two years ago here on VoIPWatch, suggesting that the German owned operator was a better fit. Now let me elaborate on the scenarios that I think would play out: 1) T-Mobile buys Sprint-plans to migrate … Read more
Markus Goebel wants to only make free or almost free calls, and I can’t blame him. I mean, why pay if someone will give it away, and in his post he takes a consoling tone about Skype and their flushing of their Extra’s program last week, on 9-11 of all days. So while the UBER … Read more
If you look at the map on the Communications Workers of America’s SpeedtestReport website and live on fast Internet, you have to be shocked at what can best be described as the deployment of real broadband in the USA, and more shocked at what the nationwide operators deliver. Living in a major tech hotbed like … Read more
San Jose based Agito Networks has shipped their Blackberry client that enables a RIM device to be an extension of the PBX network and is a needed addition for Agito to penetrate the Blackberry heavy North American enterprise market. In Europe, and Asia, where RIM is just really beginning to see sales uptake, Agito’s strategy … Read more
Windows Mobile users are being notified by Microsoft’s Total Access about Fusion 2.0 the latest offering from PhoneFusion, which provides a unified inbox for voice mail ala visual voice mail, faxes and text, all in one. I take a slight exception to the claim of “A new feature—exclusive to Windows Mobile users—is that for the … Read more
David Beckemeyer, aka Mr. Blog put up a Skype vs. Vonage calling the world comparison, and in doing so revealed some very interesting facts about the concept of unlimited that we’ve all sort of known but in his post he made things very crystal clear. What I saw first was that Skype’s numbers don’t really … Read more
Doug Mohney pointed out that for $370 a month in the Twin Cities folks can begin to receive 100 megabyte speeds on downloads and 15 meg uploads. Not everyone needs that. But as someone who enjoys 50/50 from SureWest in Sacramento at my wife’s house I can sure appreciate the thought, but do question the … Read more
Let’s face it, the bNet article on Apple and their recent market entry announcement for new iPods is a very accurate depiction of the result of the launch. This is not a reflection on the products from Apple, but a result of the company being distracted and the messaging being diffused. This happens because despite … Read more
