Credit Due and Deserved

A lot of media coverage has fallen on Vonage’s complaints about Port Blocking by a couple of companies. The real credit goes to Paul Kapustka, who has been like a proverbial bloodhound on breaking and covering the story from its very start. Kapustka, editor of Advanced IP Pipeline for CMP. He’s been on the story … Read more

A Killer Combo: Eyebeam and BroadVoice

The folks at XTEN and Broadvoice were kind enough to help me sort out configuring the awesome SIP softphone, Eyebeam with the BroadVoice service. Having been on the road for over ten days in broadband enabled WiFi hotels all over France all I can say is the combination is the VERY BEST softphone/VoIP experience I … Read more

Voice over WiMax A Threat

I have regularly expressed the opinion that VoIP and VoWiFi is a compliment to cellular companies. Now an analyst firm in the UK says VoWiMax is a threat to them. I tend to agree since the new companies in the WiMax game will not initially be the same companies. This is all about competition. Eventually the existing … Read more

Scam Deliverd By Skype

EuroTelcoblog’s James Enck discovers a flaw in the Skype multi user chat system and waxes on about it. One of the aspects of Skype I see is some type of social networking feature being overlayed with it. The Pulver Communicator already has this type of feature built in but until the type of trust system … Read more

On Mobile VoIP

Answering the Mobile TéliPhone is a story about a mobile VoIP play coming out of Montreal. The idea is simple, VoIP + WiFi phone. I’m a big proponent of this and think that the giants like AT&T and soon to be AOL need to move in this direction too.

BroadVoice Gets A New WiFi HandSet Partner

Broadvoice is working with the same partner as Vonage for WiFi handsets. Given the better quality and higher levels of customer service that Broadvoice offers, those wanting a WiFi phone may want to look in their direction. While Vonage has market share, Broadvoice as with VoicePulse and Net2Phone all offer this feature and more features … Read more

Net2Phone Pushing WiFi Phone Service

Net2Phone has formally introduced their WiFi service. I’ve been evaluating this for a few months off and on and have to say it works and the quality is on par with other carriers who offer the same think like VoicePulse and Broadvoice. The issue remains the phone. I think the initial phone is really first generation. … Read more