Yankee Group View Of VoIP

I’m actually meeting up with Danny Klein, one of my favorite analysts in the telecom space while at VoN so when I saw this article I had to post it. Danny likely helped assemble the stats, yet the author went to Current Analysis for commentary. I’m anxious to hear Danny’s views over some wine while … Read more

Level 3 and Verizon new approach

I keep thinking that the ideal marriage is a company that offers both VoIP and Cellular (see posts below as this is starting to look clearer. So when I came across two notes from VoIPNuke’s Keith aka Skibare, and then a post from test em out uber – blogger Tom Keating I only felt more … Read more

Keating on New Softphone from Nero

Tom has an interesting post about Nero and their new softphone. I think there will be many softphone coming out in the next year, some open and many locked to carriers.

UK VoIP Player

I don’t know much more about this company than what their web site reveals but it seems the UK has a new VoIP player on the march, called PipeCall. On the surface they seem like a Vonage clone. Since Vonage is entering the UK market in the early winter, companies like this have the early … Read more

CallVantage Goes Local

AT&T has a new local only plan for CallVantage. This makes VoIP even more of a competitive product with the Baby Bells in my opinion. AT&T Introduces New Residential VoIP Plan Feature-rich Unlimited Local Service for $19.99 per month FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2004 BEDMINSTER, N.J. – Providing customers a choice in voice over … Read more

Las Vegas ISP Gambles on Nuvio

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

Level3 a Champion Provider

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

EuroTelcoBlog on Next Step for Popular Telephony’s Peerio

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.

More On Verisign with VoIP

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.