Electronic News has a good viewpoint on the idea of VoIP as a convergence tool. What makes the story interesting is the idea of RFID and how it could easily make one device and a SIP back end very interesting even if the writer doesn’t draw that direct connection.
CNET Asia reports on Skype, SipPhone and MediaRing. Nothing really new in the article except most people forget about SipPhone.What many don’t know is the termination is coming from one of the largest telecom companies in the world that is not USA based, according to well placed sources. Much of what Skype is seeking to … Read more
A report out today highlights the growing deployment of VoIP and reasons why it is seeing such a rapid uptake. The real reason is money. VoIP saves money, especially in new office build outs. One ethernet cable can now carry both Voice and Data. The electricians and phone installers of old, have been replaced by … Read more
If this posting in DSLReports User’s Forum is accurate, then this is what has to be one of the most short sighted and potentially embarassing moves I’ve seen in the short history of Vonage, and one that takes the cake of how not to do a marketing effort unless alienation of your most loyal and … Read more
In a move clearly designed to make VoIP more available in the UK, Ofcom, the regulators of telecom in Britain announced efforts to further unbundle the local look. This is a major step for the marketplace and will only futher propel adoption of VoIP by helping to keep the costs down. Expect some of the … Read more
A story out of Malaysia encourages hotel operators to offer broadband, and refers to Internet Telephony, aka VoIP. As someone who travels, broadband is a requirement and I prefer a wired room so I can bring along a telephone adapter from one of the companies offering me VoIP. which means I need a router too. … Read more
Jeff Pulver, VoIP God number one, will serve as the Keynote of ISPCON in November. I can’t think of anyone better to educate the ISP’s about VoIP at a time when they all can become part of the equation. The market is at a point where reselling, creating and allowing advanced services and generating accurate … Read more
Taking a page out of the Chinese playbook on how to be a monopoly based economy, India’s telecom regulators have cracked down on VoIP being used in the country illegally actually going as far as arresting some of the operators. One of the companies is Primus Telecommunications India, which may be a sister company of … Read more
From North of the Border (in Canada) blogger Mark Evans calls Vonage on the carpet and carves up their value in light of their recent Series D investment round of $105 million. While everyone is looking at the spend rate of Vonage, Evans does a peer group comparison versus Packet 8’s parent company 8 x … Read more
I should have blogged this a few days ago but somehow I forgot to. Tech Central Station has a great post on why VoIP is clearly different from traditional telephony that goes to support the “hands off” approach of Michael Powell when it comes to the regulation of VoIP. While Tech Central Station is more … Read more
