Ted Shelton has a cool post over on his hot blog IPInferno based initially on Skype and the Pocket PC announcement of last week, but really about the idea of VoWiFi and how it can be disruptive to cellular phones as an industry.
I have the PDF version of the AT&T Home Wiring guide that isn’t on the web site. It’s rather straightforward and easy to follow. If you’re a CallVantage customer I’m fairly certain you can find it on the web site once the update happens. I got my copy from one of their PR folks. I’m … Read more
Skype has added Cisco’s Mike Volpi to their board of directors. He is the first Outside Director to be named. The appointment is personal and does not reflect any involvement from Cisco according to a Skype spokesperson. VON founder and VoIP god Jeff Pulver has his own take on this as well.
James Enck sent me an e-mail yesterday saying he had a problem with Skype. What he saw was a grey icon and none of his mates online. This morning I attempted to make a Skype Out call to a France phone number, and got the error message that said the Skype Proxy could not be … Read more
To prove that PCCW is wrong, Hong Kong telecom operator City Telecom is offering a free VoIP trial. One has to commend City for taking the high road. Rather than get into a war of words with PCCW, the upstart is saying let the service prove for itself how well it works.
CallVantage, the service I use more than any other VoIP platform has made some changes that I like. The idea of being able to have nine numbers is very exciting, especially for people like me who have business and friends in many places that have not migrated over to unlimited long distance. At 4.95 per … Read more
If you wondered why the MSO’s (multiple system operators) in cable are jumping onto the rollout bandwagon for VoIP, just read this from Multichannel News. BRIEFING ROOM FCC: High-Speed Subs Tripled Since ’01 (excerpted from the 9/13/04 edition of Multichannel News ) Subscriptions to high-speed data service in the United States nearly tripled from June … Read more
Internet Telephony’s Lab Guru Tom Keating has a medium length post on how to do a PBX for VoIP.
First they came out with the AT&T CallVantage Telephone adapter but now it looks like D-Link has come out with their own Telephone Adapter. It is a SIP based adapter, but no details regarding which carriers it will work with were disclosed.
James Enck in Eurotelcoblog has some keen insight about United Global Comunications launching in the Netherlands. If any country is becoming the wild west when it comes to telecom, its the Netherlands. The ability for businesses and consumers to find non KPN telephony, both wired and wireless is insane there. MVNO’s are sprouting up and … Read more
