Planet Zivva, an Atlanta based company has developed a Calling Party Pays (CPP) program with a twist. Basically they will assign you a number in a foriegn country, you then map it to a number in the USA, where it rings. For what is as little as $29.99 (or free in the UK during the … Read more
One of the things I believe is that wireless (i.e. mobile phone) carriers will be your next all encompassing telco. In the UK, as James Enck points out in his EuroTelcoBlog, Carphone Warehouse is doing just that. When you look at the USA’s wireless companies they have all they need to be just that, when … Read more
Reports out of Taiwan are that HTC, the folks who made T-Mobile’s XDA in the USA, have phone coming that is built on the Pocket PC platform. It will will have Windows Mobile Second Edition, 64 megs of Program Memory, 64 Megs of Storage memory, on board WiFi and Bluetooth, GPRS network access, plus the … Read more
MCI, which in the last century became the first major player in alternative long distance carrier is signaling the market that they are about to be a major player in VoIP, either as a wholesale carrier or a business and consumer service. Their announcement today about raising their SLA guarantee has to be interpreted that … Read more
Malta, one of the jewels of the Med, and a tax haven for some, is pondering how to legislate VoIP. As you can see, more countries around the world are looking how to keep control via the PTT’s or through licensed/tarrif based carriers. In my opinion those countries that over regulate will fall prey to … Read more
A report on IT Web, about the best South African tech web site has a very concise view of what will soon happen in Africa. For years many African countries have been behind in allowing the advances of the Internet to be considered legal. As the article points out, a grey market has evolved. Given … Read more
In-Sourced has taken a swipe at Skype. Skype which wants to embed its technology in cell phones was missed by the author.
Level3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) announced earnings today. They also announced customer wins. What Level3 is clearly doing is building upon their past, and in some cases, long term relationships in the data and streaming business are coming around to be VoIP customers. AOL’s Moviefone on VoIP means costs get lower for AOL. That’s really important for … Read more
Yesterday Nancy Gohring, who is one of the smartest cookies on the planet in the WiFi space wrote a very nice recap on the new blended solution from Motorola, Proxim and Avaya, that Avaya will initially be marketing. But in another example of “oh $%^&*” from a long in the tooth company like Motorola, this … Read more
What do you think? Will it? When DSL first was rolled out it was riddled with problems. The telcos did their part to slow things down, giving the cable companies a major head start. But DSL is making a comeback, and new offerings, and with higher speeds, less restrictions are coming down the pipe. Is … Read more
