Between the closing lines Om’s post and Pulver’s prediction for 2005 the prospects for many of the upstart VoIP players is looking somewhat murky. I say that because the MSO’s, the RBOCs and the long running incumbents like AT&T, Sprint and MCI all have enourmous customer bases to convrt over to VoIP, while the newcomers … Read more
A report from Parks and Associates shows that only 2 percent of the public is using VoIP. That means there is alot of room for all of the carriers to grow in the residential market. Marketing will be key to spawning adoption. As broadband from cable companies and DSL/FTTP proliferates then the market will start … Read more
James Enck recaps why Martin Geddes is in the leage of Aswath when it comes to being so smart. Martin’s wit is uncanny. The fact that he survived living in Kansas working for Spint is a tribute to his resolve.
Jeff Pulver has posted his predictions for 2005. I love his line about marketing. My two companies do just that. Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing-direct, broadcast, sales promotions and events. His other predictions are a sober eye towards what may happen. Give them a read.
In a report out of Europe, the stats say that there are five million VoIP subscribers. I don’t think they are counting the Enterprise space. I also feel the numbers may be already dated.
We all know this, but the stats are rather encouraging for those in the Enterprise VoIP sales space.
Wall Street Journal Blogger Supremo Jeremy Wagstaff ponders the idea of VoIP, Presence and IM, giving Skype kudos. I see the day when our “aware” technology makes it easy to be found, and even easier to not be.
Cablevision’s Optimum Voice VoIP service is now at 250,000 subscribers, making them clearly the number two to Vonage and the runaway leader within the MSO’s when it comes to telephony services that are SIP based. But unlike CallVantage, VoicePulse, Vonage, Packet8, Broadvoice or any of the other telephone adapter driven competitors, you can’t go to … Read more
For a long while our sources inside the Broomfield HQ of Level3 have been loudly whispering that Comcast is going to be a major customer of the all fiber IP carrier with a state of the art VoIP platform. Well with today’s announcement, more of the picture is becoming clearer. It’s not only about VoIP, … Read more
VoIP and ENUM has a post that links to some very technical concepts. Where is Aswath when we need him !
