Jeff organized a nice dinner last night in Palo Alto with three Palo Alto professors. I found out that lots of people in the VoIP space love wine and now all want to visit the Andy wine cellar. In case you didn’t know I enjoy wine, collect wine, write about wine. The wines were good, … Read more
Leonardo asks some good questions in his post today about the number of VoIP providers. My view has always been that there will be a shakeout. I feel that Vonage will likely go public or flame out. If they flame out someone will buy the only assets they have, their customers. Many others of the … Read more
DeltaThree, one of the longer established VoIP players now has new plans that involve a telephone adapter under their iConnectHere brand. To me the plan looks like plans from Vonage and a few others price wise. As a reader has pointed out, it does look a lot like VoiceWing from Verizon. It should. DeltaThree is … Read more
I just saw the tv commercials Packet 8 is running. If that’s there understanding of great creative that tells the story they have a lot to learn about consumer marketing. Having been in the advertising and public relations business since 1974 I’ve learned what great, memorable and convincing creative is about. That’s not it.
Sadly my buddy Om is home with a cold..trying to blog. I’ll be at this event as an invited guest of Jeff Pulver. As far as anyone knows, this is the first top tier USA business school to present a case study on VoIP. Reports are it’s about Free World Dialup with AT&T and Vonage … Read more
A few months back I mentioned to a PC World reporter that when it comes to choosing a VoIP carrier be careful because what happens if you transfer you lifelong phone number to a carrier which goes out of business? How do you get your number back? Now it seems other have come along and … Read more
Joi Ito, who I knew back in the 80s blogged about an Echo Test site for Skype. It really works.
Looks like GloPhone has some offshore competition. A new company from the Isle of Jersey is launching.
Two groups is Japan have joined together to lauch the VoIP Forum of Japan has been launched. This clearly marks the trend that VoIP is real, here and ready for prime time around the globe. But we all knew that… 🙂
A CapGemini survey shows that the telco service providers want the FCC to regulate VoIP, not the states or anyone else.
