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.
NuVisions DigitalVoice was first spotted by Om. I did some sleuthing and found that the name servers resolve to Vonage so it seems there is a connection. My flight back to the USA boards in 10 minutes so I’m at a loss, but I’ll be thinking about this all the way back!
iNeen is a new service from XTEN. Using the Eyebeam technology and SIP you can make free calls to other ineen users. In a way this is a lot like GloPhone without the hype and with Video. With this out there for free the pressure is now on Packet8 and Sightspeed to say why they are … Read more
Aswath does a parody of the famous “I have a dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King. It is brilliant, witty and well done, in a tasteful manner.
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
Broadband Reports has a discussion on Local Number Portability issues with VoiceWing, Verizon’s version of VoIP.
