Wired has a story about wireless Internet access, calling the questions as to why we have so little of it. It’s timely, especially in light of the nations (and likely the worlds) looming data network access crush wirelessly until fatter pipe access becomes more ubiquitous. Let’s start with some history. The mobile operators didn’t really … Read more
While I may be skeptical about a few other so called “data channel VoIP” that are being touted, this concept out of Israel and Syracuse, NY seems to fly. Based upon using unlicensed spectrum and deploying some kind of voice call continuity and roaming between WiFi hotspots the concept would appear to be plausible. In … Read more
Esme Vos has a post earlier this week about what I am calling the 3G Choke Point on Muni Wireless. As a PolyNetwork carrier user I’ve seen what the greed of AT&T, and the lagging T-Mobile has done here in the USA with 3G data, and how the very conservative, but far more better managed … Read more
Media 5, a Quebec based company, is planning on releasing a SIP based client for the Apple iPhone via the App store in July. I was tipped off to this via About.com’s Nadeem Unuth.
Alec Saunders has a very good analysis on why free conferencing call service Foonz has bitten the dust. Long time readers (and listeners of KenRadio’s World Technology Roundup) will know well my views on FREE. It simply doesn’t work. We’ve all heard the expression “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Well in the … Read more
Never to be accused of standing still in any type of economy, networking giant Cisco is “getting” smaller. After years of struggling with what their mobile strategy will be, the company is figuring out how to take some of its core assets like WebEx and others and migrate them from the desktop to the mobile … Read more
The just announced survey results regarding HD Voice, the subject of Jeff Pulver’s conference this week, that was conducted by client GIPS, shows a market that is ripe for the technology. No surprise but HiDef conference calling figured high on the list, but so did the use in call centers, as part of where respondents … Read more
Jeff Pulver is back into the VoIP game, sort of. He’s hosting a conference this week in New York City which I wish I was attending, but client commitments and another event here on the west coast this week are keeping me “closer to home.” The HD Voice Summit promises to delve into the aspects … Read more
Travel satirist Joe Sharkey has penned a piece about Video Conferencing that ran in the New York Times. This type of coverage supports the theory that video conferencing is now at the mainstream level. Now, if Skype would only handle multi-party calls like SightSpeed, we’d have something really, really big.
When I first heard about Verizon, the landline telco, starting to go into the business of offering WiFi, I thought, “here we go again” as we’ve already seen them start, then stop deploying hotspots in their service markets. Back in 2003/2004 Verizon did to WiFi the same as AOL did to VoIP. They bent over … Read more
