The Detroit New recaps much of what we know already about SBC’s planned entry into VoIP. What wasn’t reported and actually tossed a MSO PR type for a loop was the fact that SBC will make the VoIP available to any broadband user. That includes customer of other DSL providers and cable providers of high … Read more
A rumour circulating from folks close to Level 3 has Comcast coming out with VoIP in a big way next year too. The rumour is likely based upon Sandford Bernstiens Craig Moffit’s analyst report of last week. Here’s what I’m hearing but it may not be fully accurate so I’m hedging as a brief long … Read more
The folks at SBC are about to get into VoIP in 2005 according to their press release. The service, which seems to be bundled with for DSL users in SBC serving areas seems to be a clone of AT&T’s CallVantage in feature set. In talking candidly with an SBC spokesperson this morning, the current offering … Read more
I didn’t say it. Leo did. I thought it, and Leo got me really thinking. Skype is thinking already they’re Microsoft when it comes to bug fixes, i.e. they are just fixing them with an update, and not saying anything about it themselves. If they are going to be as aggressive with news and announcements, … Read more
Budding CNBC TV star Om Malik laid the smack down on Siemens today for their masterful PR flub regarding the Skype adapter. It seems his call to Siemens PR yielded the response he posted here. Skype doesn’t have to feel the heat though. Their PR team is pretty good and the news release of November … Read more
If you’re using Skype, it’s sure time to upgrade to the latest version. The folks at Secunia have pegged this a threat, much like the exploits that affect Internet Explorer. Andy says–get the latest version and also, make sure your antivirus is up to snuff.
Tom Keating has a good point about bandwidth shaping. I think that a lot of what is happening so far is done at the network level, with only AT&T’s CallVantage publicly saying they are doing the packet prioritization at the telephone adapter level, which is why they prefer the TA to be in front of … Read more
CallWave, a longtime player in the Voice services business has added Level3 as a key supplier. Level 3 keeps picking up deals like this with customer facing companies. This does not immediately mean that Level 3 will see rapid growth, but to companies like Speakeasy and Callwave it means they can outsource the bulk of … Read more
I think it’s only a matter of time for VoWiFI to really take hold and feel that the biggest sellers of VoWiFI will be one of two types of companies–the cable operators or the mobile operators. Here’s why. Access to the customers. The mobile operators have storefronts, agents and already mail to their customers or … Read more
As someone who wants less devices installed in my house, largely to reduce the cable clutter and the draw on electric power, I’m always happy to see when a company rolls out the production of a combined device like Motorola is out in Taiwan that blends Cable Modem and VoIP technology that’s part of the … Read more
