CNN has a story on the Asian VoIP market. Asia has been the market companies in the application server and softswitch market have been targeting since the late 1990s. The carriers there know how it can only speed growth, the issue is does anyone in those countries want VoIP? Likely the younger generation. But how … Read more
A report from The Yankee Group paints a rose colored picture for cable companies selling VoIP. While I agree they will pick up lots of customers, especially in markets where their systems are contiguous like in the New York City market where Cablevision rules the roost, knocking off the companies like AT&T, Packet8 and Vonage … Read more
iBasis hopes to attract some interest on the strength of the Skype win last week. That’s good for them, but when they seek to twist the facts to benefit them, they are no better than a reporter or analyst leaving out the correct information so they don’t foul up the story or perspective they are … Read more
Internet Telephony’s VoIP Developer’s Conference begins tomorrow in San Jose at the Fairmount Hotel. While shows by Internet Telephony don’t carry the panache of Jeff Pulver and his VON events they do fill an important need for the growing VoIP industry, providing an additional event each year, backed up by the industry leading coverage that … Read more
Defcon, the annual convention of hackers, crackers and phreakers was last week in Las Vegas. That is likely the impetus behind this story in the New York Times today. While the story provides cause for alarm how many people have their phone lines tapped today? These same type of stories used to make the rounds … Read more
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
