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.
Check out what Tom Keating has to say about the new Intrado 911 Service
AT&T has yet to formally notify their users but you can’t keep the net community quiet about changes. In this case the bulk of the comments are overwhelmingly positive about the service upgrade that has been likely one of the most requested by hard core CallVantage and VoIP users. Putting the CallVantage telephone adapter from … Read more
Doing some Googling about CallVantage I came across a Mac program that lets users use their address book to dial from.
There have been reports of Verisign in the VoIP business. Now it seems to be official. Now this is where it gets very interesting. Verisign basically is the switchboard of the digital era which connects this to that. It gets interesting when you cross one from column A with Column B so to speak. When … Read more
Office Depot obviously looks at VoIP as an accessory for the PC which is why they have made a move to sell five plans from VoiceGlo. For VoiceGlo this is a big win. For Office Depot I think it is the first stab into VoIP and clearly not their last.
Fast Fiber to the Home is coming. One by one the announcements are coming out from SBC and Verizon and if you’re a cable company executive you had better start looking over your shoulders. While the cable companies have had a good laugh about the problems with DSL, if FTTH takes hold the whole world … Read more
Toshiba has announced a product line up to compete with Avayya and Cisco. I dont see the price points holding for long. There will be lots of competition in the VoIP space. Think where the router market has been driven down to. I also can’t see a price of $160 for a softphone. My guess … Read more
I’ve posted before on how the Internet knows no borders, and how VoIP will be the catalyst for branded, consumer telephony and data offerings that really propel cross border, read global, brand efforts for the telcos. James Enck in his Eurotelcoblog comments on what is about to happen in Europe. While right now this is … Read more
Depending how one interprets the statement in this story, 8×8 has somewhere between 17,000 and 25,000 or so users. Given how much money is behind them on the public market, and how long they have been at the VoIP game, Vonage has kicked their butt all over the place with an inferior grade of service. … Read more
