Video Phones to Ring Up Sales at least in the business market, at least that’s the prediction of Phillip Swann. I think that he’s partly right. Conference room calling will be enhanced by videophones, especially in winter months. Who wants to travel and get snowbound unless you’re at a ski resort. However, until you can have … Read more
Sonus Drives Global VoIP Traffic in 2004; Networks Based on Sonus Solutions Now Carry Estimated 10 Billion Minutes of Traffic Monthly This is a boast, but for Sonus, one of the few surviving softswitch companies from the dot.bomb era, it is actually good to hear. Sonus is doing all they can to put their accounting … Read more
The Vonage series of commercials has a very “don’t be so stupid to pay more for phone service.” That and a Tom Bodette, Motel 6 feel. They’re cute, catchy, thematic. They are following the tv commercial feeling of AT&T’s spots (that are no longer running) by focusing on broadband (without offering to get it for … Read more
The Jeff Pulver Blog: The first BIG Event for VoIP in 2005 is: Spring 2005 VON! Seems that there is competition in the show space for who’s bigger. Bottom line is you can’t miss either show if you’re in the game, but this will be a very big event, with lots of big time telephony … Read more
Techdirt:Cablevision’s Bundle Is Working as they seem to have brought the price to a point where it’s FREE according to TechDirt. So let me get this straight. They advertise for free. They reduce the cost of services. They hurt the phone companies. Next !
The VoIP Event being put on in February by Internet Telephony magazine promises to be huge. Read Tom’s post then book your rooms and flights.
Mr Blog Entry – 01/02/2005: Consumer Reports on VoIP in Feb 2005 Issue but we don’t know which carrier ranked where!
WSJ.com – Write to The Wall Street Journal has a letter from the guru of VoIP, Jeff Pulver. It’s a great read and makes many salient points. Give it a read.
Dameon @ Voxilla.com has a review of their predictions from a year ago and some new ones for 2005. There is no question that 2005 will be a big year for VoIP, but I really think the advances will be in applications/services and higher QoS. Also, 911 will become less of a media issue as … Read more
Mobiles rack up 20 years of use so if it took that long for mobile phones to be adopted then VoIP should take about 30 percent of that time to reach the same levels of adoption.
