In a bold move, an upstart VoIP provider has asked the FCC to prevent the USA’s cable giants and DSL providers from employing tactics that discriminate against third party VoIP providers. One has to love the moxy of the cable industry’s trade group when their spokes person obfuscates the reality in his reply. Saying the … Read more
Yankee Group has issued an announcement today about their views on who will survive in VoIP. In an era where Darwinism still has a say, they point to major players as being the winners. I agree to a point. Last week I wrote about reintermediation, where traditional players reengineer themselves, ala AT&T, to be ready … Read more
Light Reading has a post about BT moving into the SME market with VoIP. Sounds like a logical move. That’s the sweet spot. Steady paying customers. Lots of numbers and endpoints. The ability to provide other services. SBC has been in that field for a few years. This is good news to Cisco and Alcatel, … Read more
VoIP-Forum pointed me to a viewpoint of Internet Telephony’s Publisher, Rich Tehrani on the subject of E911. To me the solution is too simple. Every police and fire department has a phone line in their dispatch room called “the non emergency number.” All you have to do with VoIP is program that number into speed … Read more
A New Mexico wide area hot spot will offer unlimited VoIP over WiFi. As Nancy Gohring writes cell phone carriers should start looking over their shoulders. While SBC has the right idea with Freedom Link access in every UPS/Mail Boxes Etc. location you can find for WiFi, what I don’t get is the ignorance of … Read more
Clearwire gets Intel to invest. Clearwire says they will add VoIP. Do the math. Just like Intel force fed the growth of WiFi with Centrino, next they will want to propel the growth of WiMax or WiMax like Clearwire technology to propel that. Why you ask? They want to be end to end. From your … Read more
Mobitus, the VoIP side of FatPort, one of Canada’s top WiFi operators, has added VoIP with login using the Zyxel Presitige handset according to WiFi Networking News earlier in the week. I’ve used the Zyxel and have not been blown away with the sound quality at all. I just received from Net2Phone their version and … Read more
Om Malik has a pretty good handle on Vonage as he’s talked with Jeff Citron and comes from the investment banking world, so when Om comes to a conclusion, I tend to look at it and then add on. In my mind Vonage is using the dot.com model of “get big fast.” They are doing … Read more
Internet Telephony Magazine gives high marks to AT&T and provides a very comprehensive summary about the company’s VoIP efforts beyond CallVantage. What I like about this article is that it brought together what AT&T is doing overall and paints an easy to grasp landscape of how AT&T as a company is moving in the VoIP … Read more
After raising more money recently, Vonage has announced they will hire 600 more people.
