Aswath Weblog: VoIP (as practiced today) is “Intelligent” After All I love reading ASWATH…I LOVE reading ASWATH. His dissection of Tom Evslin, who is crafty as a writer as he is an executive, is just downright masterful. As Aswath said he wrote the post to “take issue with some of the logic and to suggest … Read more
Internet Telephony Conference Sold Out! First The VON sells out, now TMC’s Internet Telephony Conference is full up…Congrats to Rich and Tom and all the folks at TMC. I’m moderating a panel there regarding Issues facing IP Telephony Service Providers. While I doubt it will be as raucous as the Blogger Panel at the VON … Read more
Unbound Spiral: Cellphone and Skype Enough? Stuart mentions that some universities have banned Skype. Now he’s got me thinking. Here’s more on the subject that seems to be in the more techie and college bulletin boards. I guess this means in the remake of “Animal House” Hoover gets in trouble for using Skype….I mean Skype … Read more
After being told in writing by Vonage PR that Vonage was terminating a SPAM house for sending out spam that I received guess what? I got more spam today…here’s even how it came addressed: *SPAM* UNLIMITED calls for an UNHEARD of rate. If I was one of the VC’s invested in Vonage I’d be calling … Read more
Telepocalypse’s Martin Geddes writes a product microreview: BT Communicator Overall he gives it good marks, but finds some flaws. Still, this is one of the first integrations by a PTT to marry VoIP to the end users existing PSTN service. I wish CallVantage would do this !
Fractals of Change: Freedom to Communicate Conference So, where is Jeff Pulver? If anyone has been pushing the rights of the user and the industry it’s Pulver. He should be on this distinguished list of experts. Kudos for Time Warner and Business 2.0 for allowing Om Malik to participate. Normally magazine publishers hold tight reins on … Read more
The EU has taken a “light touch” approach when it comes to VoIP. The announcement outlines their current thinking on the subject.
I received this email from one of the AT&T PR folks, likely in retort to my previous posting. I think this says alot about who owns up, and who only wants to be portrayed in a favorable light when it suits them. Going forward I’ll have to look more closely under the hood when it … Read more
8×8 Adds New Features to Packet8 VoIP and Video Broadband Phone Services. The toll free services plan is something neat. I once asked another VoIP provider if they could offer that since I have two 800 numbers. The pricing alone by 8×8 is much less than what I’m paying Qwest to manage and terminate the … Read more
damaka – experience the joy of communicating…is a Skype competitor and also a competitor to GloPhone. My view is that there will be a lot of SIP based PC to PC phones….
