Numbering Systems Are A Changing

Mr. Blog has a nice post that Telepocalypse found. Months back Michael Robertson of SipPhone was trying to venture into this arena and I suspect alternative numbering systems will be coming forth rather soon. The market is too ripe for a numbering plan that takes advantage of SIP and IPV6 while not making old phone … Read more

VoIP Nuke On IBM and VoIP

The ultra VoIPster Keith Bare of VoIPNuke has a post about IBM and their moving of the voice over to VoIP. His sources indicate that Level3 will be the winner here, yet at the same time IBM is helping QWEST engineer their VoIP platform using Sonus and Sylantro equipment. If you recall a few years … Read more

Fortune On Vonage

I don’t have full Fortune access but for those that do, there is a story about Vonage in the online, and likely hard copy edition.

Skype To Do Video? Be Noble?

A spokeperson from Skype indicated that video is one of the directions Skype is looking. A second direction, with a more humanitarian view is finding a way to create a cashless economy that enables some nationals (i.e. China) to be able to use the Skype Out service without the ability to use their own currency. … Read more

Eyebeam Now Available

XTEN’s EYEBEAM Video over VoIP is now live according to SipThat, a blog from the XTEN founder. I think it would be cool to have XTEN be interoperable with Packet 8’s Video Phone.

PCCW Spreads VoIP FUD

This is truly FUD. Maybe it works in Hong Kong, but it won’t fly here. VoIP causing outages. Okay. An so do routers. Sleeping engineers. Rats chewing up cables. Or just someone pulling the plug out. Does anyone really beleive that this is all PCCW being asleep at the switch and letting competitors out the … Read more

GoodLink 3.0

This isn’t VoIP but Good Technologies Goodlink 3.0 showed the XDA 3 from HTC. Reports are Siemens will remarket the XDA 3 if Cingular opts to carry it. Hopefully T-Mobile grabs it. The product, which features WiFi would be a much better Skype or Vonage Softphone platform to work from.

Om on Lingo Local

Om Malik on his newly relaunched VoIPDaily has a note about Lingo offering 7 digit dialing. The key is if it recignizes caller ID for call return. That’s a pet peeve I have with many of the VoIP carriers. I can call the long distance caller back, but the local person in my area code, … Read more

Follow The Money

A report from the Dell’Oro shows VoIP revenues increasing all along the food chain. Clearly this is just the start of the VoIP explosion as more countries begin to allow it, and more carriers embrace it.