Om Malik on Broadband » Comcast VoIP too expensive? Om thinks so. I do too. This is a clear example of how Comcast works. They’re a lot like Microsoft. Watch someone else introduce something, then do it themselves. At Comcast someone wrote a marketing and business plan for VoIP back when VoIP was going for $39.95 … Read more
eurovoip: Skype VoIP threat to Euro telcos is on the EuroVoIP blog. I don’t know about you, but I have at least one Skype call a day these days, and it usually is either to someone international or someone who is nomadic (moving from place to place) who has too many ways to be reached, but … Read more
Light Reading – Networking the Telecom Industry Light Reading – Says Vonage Won’t Make Money, will likely be acquired. More rumors. I hear Vonage is close to announcing a PBX like service geared for the SOHO and smaller enterprise market. Second rumor. Vonage may make a deal with Level3. Problem is Level3 is slowing down. … Read more
Mark Evans :: Cable VOIP in Canada is expected to grow. I actually think the Canadian market will grow faster on a percentage basis. Why? Close proximity. While Canada has a lot of remote territory, the bulk of people live in or near the major metropolitan centers (Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, … Read more
The Jeff Pulver Blog: Comcast to offer VoIP Services is no big secret. This has been in the works for months. Still if Comcast can duplicate what Cablevision has done, they will be the clearcut VoIP leader. They do have a big challenge ahead. How to sell it in. Cablevision benefits by being in one ADI, … Read more
PhoneGAIM Targets Skype and Tom Keating gets the jump on the news. I consider this rather important as the folks behind PhoneGaim are Michael Robertson, and he knows how to market tech. Add this to the Lindows/Linspire PC’s, plus now a Windows version and look what you have.
Recently I was messaged by a sell side analyst who wanted to know if I cared to speculate who was behind the Belkin CallEverywhere VoIP product. I chose to do some Googling. First TelecomWeb reported this which led me to this No speculating here. Just follow the dots….and you find the answers. Now, what I … Read more
The Skype PR team is super to work with. They respond and unlike so many other (i.e. Vonage) when you have a story about them that you have the facts on they don’t duck. Here’s the reply to the SAM Answering machine issue word for word. “SAM is not a Skype endorsed product and Skype … Read more
SAM – Skype® Answering Machine —Insecure ? I called a colleague using skype, not knowing he was in another skype session. His Skype Answering Machine picked up and I left a message. First the parties on the call with him heard me. Secondly, I heard them. Both calls were clear as a bell to the … Read more
