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Never Lie To The Press, Starbucks!

Roughly two years ago or so I spoke with Starbucks VP, Anne Saunders, their Biz Dev wonderkind who put the hotspot deal together with T-Mobile after Mobilestar went under. During the interview I asked her about power outlets, saying “as you know WiFi draws down a battery faster than a normal PC.” Saunders replied saying … Read more

AT&T Makes AT&T CallVantage Service ‘Family Friendly’

AT&T Makes AT&T CallVantage Service ‘Family Friendly’ In what I call the most feature oriented advancement by a VoIP company, AT&T’s CallVantage has rolled out a bunch of new features that are available today. While some other VoIP and Unified Messaging companies have offered some of the new features previously, none of the current companies … Read more

Are They Scared Yet?

A UK communications carrier says what we know but makes some interesting predictions of what VoIP will do to the incumbents labeling VoIP telecom’s black hole.

What’s Holding VoIP Back

Americans are more worried that service quality over government regulation will hold back the adoption of VoIP-based telephony, according to a Spirent Communications report. Well, I think the quality issues are being reduced and that more people are realizing that unlimited Long Distance and all the bundled features at one price sure beats the RBOCs … Read more

Bandwidth.com SMB VoIP White Paper

A white paper highlighting the benefits of managed and hosted VoIP for the Small and Medium sized business came out today from Bandwidth.com. The paper, which identifies Level3 as the underlying carrier points out that businesses can manage VoIP rollouts for $30.00 per seat. This clearly points to what I have been thinking for some … Read more

Skype and Interoperability

Wouldn’t it be great if someone made Skype interoperable with any or all of the Instant Messaging platforms? I’m hearing reports that someone has. Care to guess who?