James Enck has an unfair advantage, he’s in London, so news about Skype dropping their prices hits him first. That’s why he’s clearly worth reading. The question on my mind is not how low can prices go with telco. Everyone knows the PTT’s and RBOC’s have been milking the market for years. The real question … Read more
Score one for Jonathan Greene for finding out the news about who won the review for Vonage’s 50-75 million dollar ad account. My gut says Vonage will continue to heavily use the Internet to attract customers but also start to do some very targeted traditional media. A lot of new technology is out there to … Read more
In what is clearly their Rising Sun strategy, James Enck tipped us all off to a deal with LiveDoor in Japan for Skype. On the heels of their Chinese announcement earlier, this clearly means that either Korea, Vietnam, Thailand or India are next.
I have been saying for over a year both on KenRadio.com and here that the telcos are the next television threat to cable, not satellite. Verizon TV is a huge threat, if the Telcos can pull off more than the pipe to the home, which in itself is no easy trick. Can you spell ISDN … Read more
Unwired VoIP is due in 2005 down in Australia. While some form of PSTN termination is needed, what everyone has to realize is that just like mobile to mobile minutes being free in all kinds of deals globally on the same carrier (though I used to get free T-Mobile to Cingular for a while) VoIP … Read more
In China VoIP is being looked at very favorably according to this China Post article. Will Skype and VoIP lead to a revolution in China? Well possibly a Telecom one, that’s for dog gone sure.
Eurotelcobloger James Enck aka “das Enckster” recaps what the Skype-Tom announcement means. For those too lazy to click through, or those blocked by the Chinese (fire)wall, basically given the growth of Skype via a similar partnership in Taiwan, Skype should end up with more users in China than any country in the world based solely … Read more
A very good write up was flagged by Jeff Pulver. It comes from another Andy over on O’Reilly Network site and has lots of the key points at VON.
The power of the blog. I got a call from the PR firm working with VoiceGlo. The rep, who seems far superior to their last rep was candid. The number VoiceGlo released was indeed people who signed up/downloaded the client. That does not mean they use if, for as SkiBare pointed out to me, there … Read more
In a move worthy of the biggest of kudos Skype has announced numbers of downloads and simultaneous users. So in what is a so obvious and typical Dot.Com era tactic of coattail hype building via a press release, the people from another Voice over IP company, appear to be making an Enrob/WorldCon/Andersin era style stock … Read more
