VoIP

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

Skype and WiFi for Free Calls

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Today’s announcement about Skype and WiFi seems to be one more supporting effort by companies that want to compete with the mobile/cellular carriers. EuroTelcoblog‘s James Enck has some interesting views on Skype as always. In many ways the skype Broadreach announcement is no different than Boingo going with TelSym, as both are non standard. I … Read more

Is 411 Needed?

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Aswath brings up a very good point regarding Google to look up most phone numbers. But there are some companies and people who just don’t get to be Googled and are in the White pages. This is especially true for newly installed telephones.

But I have one huge question…are VoIP numbers that were not ported from the RBOC’s PSTN pool over to VoIP in the directories at all?

For example, my CallVantage number is not nor would my Vonage number be that terminates on the softphone…HMMMMM

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Costa Rica And VoIP

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One of the issues discussed on my panel at Internet Telephony about Issues facing the Service Provider was regulation of VoIP. It seems in Costa Rica they really want to regulate it. This has to be an issue for multi-national corporations which want to roll out VoIP in their enterprise that has far reaching implications. … Read more

Pulver Goes Beyond VoIP

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Taking one of the biggest steps of his career, Jeff Pulver has made a pact with CMP Media and TIA to develop an enterprise tech show that goes beyond VoIP. The show fills a hole left by the demise of Comdex, the weakness of N+I of late that many people have been feeling. Those shows died for two reasons. Greed and lack of compelling content. Pulver’s team knows content. That should make the smaller format at the Rio in Las Vegas this November worth looking at.

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TW Telecom Growing

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TW Telecom has a great network, lots of customers and are making money. That’s what I learned last week when I met their team at Internet Telephony. They’re rolling out VoIP for business. Their executives remind me of old school types. You know, the suits. The ties.  They’re the kind of supplier Fortune 100 buyers would trust. What you won’t get is gee whiz bells and whistles rock star egos from these guys. They have a solid product, a good offer and would be a safe bet if your business is looking to get VoIP in a big way from a company that has a good pedigree. They were spun out of Time Warner in the 90’s yet TimeWarner still is their largest shareholder.  They compete with the Verizon’s, SBCs and such.

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