VoIP

Business Week OnLine on Peerio

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I’ve been around the PR game for over 30 years. I’m only 45 and still get goosebumps when a hit happens. The story in BusinessWeek Online is a plum in my mind for Popular Telephony as it moves the company along and up the media food chain and more into the traditional business press. We … Read more

Net2Phone Pushing WiFi Phone Service

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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

DoOM and GloOM from OM get’s Countered

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“Om, it’s not dot-VOIP yet“….so says Canadian Mark Evans in his blog today. Om thinks the dot.com/dot.bomb era is hitting VoIP, and while some startups may become casualties, there are also more established companies in the space from top to bottom who are shifting to VoIP for telephony and the related business. While there is … Read more

How Serious Are The Problems?

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In ninth grade World History, our teacher, Royal Black, yup, that was his name, no jive, was the first person I recall ever using the phrase “history always repeats,” so I’m not surprised at Om’s post today about the growing pains effecting VoIP. When I got into the dot.com world outages were nothing uncommon. Heck, … Read more

Yesterday Vonage, Today Lingo…Who’s Next?

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Yesterday Vonage had an outage but today it seems Lingo, the VoIP service from Primus is having it’s own bad day, making the Vonage outage seem slight in comparison. A review of a thread on DSL Reports shows many unhappy customers.

While I’m not opposed to the idea it may be a coincidence, I notice that many times the outages that seem to occur with one carrier almost identically occurs the next day or so with another carrier. That makes me wonder if there is anything inside their NOC’s (i.e. open source software, commercial software) that is similar, and when that piece of software is updated if the everyone is affected as they update…

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Vonage Down But Not Out

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LightReading reports on a Vonage outing on Friday. This is one their customers worst fears. The network went down and so did the Vonage web site. My guess is they are having scaling issues as well as a NOC related problem. Coming the week before VON is the wrong time for it to happen, as … Read more

Telco censured for blocking VoIP By FCC

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Telco censured for blocking VoIP – and despite all the rumblings that it was one of the Regional Bells, the facts prove otherwise. In my offline discussions with reporters and publicity directors for various VoIP related companies I never was convinced it was one of the big guys, simply because they would have too much … Read more

Who Will Win The Home IP Phone Market

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Doug Mohney of VoN Magazine has a great summary of the residential IP phone market. In addition to the companies he listed that are the likely candidates to sell lots of phones, there are many rising stars in Asia who will also find ways to put new brands on the shelves of retailers and in … Read more

Internet Week > Vonage’s Citron Says VoIP Blocking Is ‘Censorship’ > Vonage’s Citron Says VoIP Blocking Is ‘Censorship’ > March 2, 2005

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Internet Week > Vonage’s Citron Says VoIP Blocking Is ‘Censorship’ > Vonage’s Citron Says VoIP Blocking Is ‘Censorship’ > March 2, 2005 A great story by Paul who has been on this Port Blocking issue affecting Vonage sheds more light on the matter. That said, I think an ISP blocking a person’s use of VoIP goes … Read more