It seems the French like VoIP based on this observation by James Enck. There is no question that the disruption level being casued by VoIP in Europe is at a fever pitch. Not only is Skype taking minutes away from the PTT’s, but as cable rolls out more are opting for the triple play type … Read more
This morning’s press release from Speakeasy said somethings and left things out. Originally, their VoIP offering was going to be powered by Level3, in the announcement they indicate their own private network. While they may still be buying some pieces from Level3, my guess is they have a few partners when it comes to the … Read more
Verizon Looking At VoIP Over 3G doesn’t have me at all surprised. Qualcomm’s outgoing CEO and Chairman Irwin Jacobs talked about this back in September at a San Diego Telecom Council Headliners event.
Cox Cable is seeing their take rates from customers steadily rise when it comes to both Digital Telephony (which is circuit switched) and for VoIP. They are now number one, when it comes to cable telephony, according to this account.
Is this the The Truth About e911, Vonage and SBC? If so, Om has done some very good detective work and executed a very high degree of journalistic integrity. What I like is that Om had the story and sat on it to get more facts and elicit a reply from SBC and balanced the … Read more
I get slammed by readers for not reporting about some good things that happen to Packet8. Yesterday They put out a press release about their service being rated number one by Tom’s Networking in a story penned by Russell Shaw of ZD Net and VON Magazine.
Stuart’s Skype Journal has good news for Pocket PC users. An upgraded release from Skype which fixes many bugs and adds more of the PC client features. Way to go Skype. Now since Skype Journal didn’t have the link to the download, I’m adding it here.
If you want to read a posting about experience with customer service at Vonage, Lingo and Packet 8 as well as other experiences check out Philip Greenspun’s real life type of post. Hat tip to IP Inferno’s Dan Brekke for pointing me to it.
The Jeff Pulver Blog post yesterday entitled How to Use Inevitable Vertical Consolidation as the Vehicle to Create a Positive Regulatory Structure (A Few Preliminary, Triggering Thoughts) is a must, I mean MUST!!!! read. Jeff has some very keen insight on the AT&T – SBC merger and offers some sage advice.
Jon Arnold’s Blog means Mark Evans now has some real competition in the Toronto area for blogging on VoIP. If you don’t know Jon, you should. He’s freshly thawed from the team at Frost and Sullivan.
