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
Tom Keating has a lot of the facts about the sale to Cisco of one of the SIP space’s most significant players.
Om has a post about Kagoor getting more moolah from the VC community. They are one of the dot com/telecom meltdown suvivors. As Om points out their business is in Session Border Controllers. He says ‘Session Border Controls are needed for security, interoperability, service assurance, regulatory compliance and management of VoIP networks’ and I think … Read more
SipThat has more details about the new Eyebeam video SIP phone software. With SKYPE indicating that Video is on the roadmap for them XTEN is taking an early move in the space that is currently really only filled by SightSpeed at this point with a product that doesn’t VoIP, this is clearly a market that … Read more
Skype is on a roll with rumours and announcements, with the latest being an account they will have a client for the Palm OS. So while that’s good for Tungsten users, Treo users as far as I know still don’t have Wi-Fi card usage ability. And the Treo is the best and most Swiss Army … Read more
