We are seeing the era where ISPs become ITSP (Internet Telephony Service Providers) basically making any ISP a phone company as companies like Level3, Covad and Nuvio roll out private label phone product offerings in a pre-configured and bundled manner like this story reports on. Thus this means customer ownership and customer service become the … Read more
I think via some of the coverage here and on VoIPNuke by Keith, that this information about Level3 being the supplier to Champion, a MLM VoIP sales company. In the old days of MCI, resellers who were MLM’s literally built the business for the company via a plethora of independent, agents who were like Amway … Read more
James Enck who watches everything telco in Europe from his perch at Daiwa Securities points out the ongoing success of Popular Telephony. James has pointed out how Popular Telephony has successfully signed another significant player in the VoIP building block world. His insight from London should be followed closely.
Well sort of…I found this deal from Tiger Direct when going through Google.
Jonathan points to an expanded viewpoint on the Verisign VoIP play. We all need to watch Verisign closely. They are very smart but have done things before that can be control freak in nature. Google them.
Over two years ago a team I was part of approached Boingo with the idea of blending Webley IP with WiFi at Boingo locations. It’s good to see that it took them two years to figure out what we knew then can now work. The key was we were too early and the technology to … Read more
Engadget finds a new intercom, that will use VoIP. It reminds me of Vocera only cooler looking.
I am full agreement with Keatings view on the whole subject of WiMax and AT&T. If you look at AT&T’s efforts the last year they are migrating away from the traditional telco type business and looking at where access will be in the future in order to keep traffic on their managed network.
The folks from Skype would say it is. I say no. It’s evolving via revolutionary companies like Skype, SipPhone, Popular Telephony. All are run by seriel start up visionaries. All seek to change the old way something has been done. That doesn’t mean telecom is dead. Even AT&T is evolving. The move from PSTN centricity … Read more
Congratulatons to the folks at 8 x 8 who made the Fierce 15. For those who don’t know Fierce, they are a news aggregator that puts out annual “best of” lists. They have decided to add a VoIP Fierce report which brings even more legitimacy to the space.
