James has his usual insightful viewpoints on a conference about VoIP in London. The stats about Vonage are interesting, but I don’t understand why the pussyfooting by Rego about actual deployment dates in Europe. I also question the idea of Hong Kong for Vonage, which as James points out is very cut throat at this … Read more
SBC scores and keeps Notre Dame’s business with a hosted VoIP and WiFi capable system. Clearly SBC has a going forward strategy for the marketing of VoIP to the large enterprise. Their PR effort is in high gear and like the Fighting Irish, they are on a roll. In coming into the Enterprise space, SBC … Read more
Congrats to all the gang at Pulver.com and their team working on VON Europe. Jeff has announced that it has sold out. What we are seeing is that a conference, focused on a specific subject is a draw for the manufacturers. While the traditional trade show is still not yet back to their former luster, … Read more
Scientific Atlanta supplies many of the cable boxes to North American cable customers via the MSOs. With this announcement today it clearly tells me that VoIP will be embedded in the cable box at some point in the future, with carrier selection being a feature controlled either by the same remote control used by consumers … Read more
In an announcement today, carrier’s carrier, Global Crossing promised the delivery of five nines Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) to their customers. This has to be viewed as good news for Vonage, which works with Global Crossing not for Voice Transport but for network operations management. If you recall an outage with Vonage was reported to … Read more
An article in this week’s DM News, a publication geared towards the Direct Marketing industry seems to point out that states in the USA will still find a way to be involved in the regulation of VoIP related issues. The key here is what they will regulate and how they will apply their ability to … Read more
I’ve been saying that it’s the applications and features that will drive adoption of VoIP almost since the time I started this blog. Now another news organization, MSNBC is reporting the same thing.
ISP Planet has cobbled together a news account detailing how many customers some of the VoIP carriers have. While one has to seperate free downloads and installed clients from paying customers (i.e. Skype vs. Optimum Online) what is apparent is that the cable companies like Charter and Cablevision are gaining significant marketshare in getting their … Read more
While I’m out checking out wine bars and tapas bars in Portland, OM-nipresent online Om Malik is on the case and grabbed the first post related to Michael Powell’s pissed off response to SBC’s plan to roll out TipTop. From the very start I have felt that the SBC foray, as well as some other … Read more
What we all suspected over the past year has now been validated. VoIP deployments by the carriers and RBOC’s are on the rise. Check out the posting over on TekRati. What this means in plain language is that the RBOC and ILECs are all gearing up to roll out more VoIP based services to consumers … Read more
