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
Infonetics Research cites that services and applications are what will drive price. In all the interviews I’ve been giving to the media the last few weeks about VoIP I always tell them the price is not what it is about. It’s the applications and servcies. Seems the report back up that line of thinking. VoIP … Read more
A very detailed analysis of the recent VoiceWing announcement is offered up by Faultline, a research company. While it appears to deposition cable companies such as Cablevision’s offering, one that works and uses a managed network built out by Cablevision, and which likely has very high level peering partnerships with the other MSOs and tier … Read more
The Communications Workers of America has issued a statement regarding their opposition to the US Senate’s VoIP Freedom Bill. Their claim is the bill is not in the best interest of the public. What they are really saying is the more rapid deployment of VoIP and migration of the public from PSTN to VoIP will … Read more
Packet 8 has rolled out more features to their VoIP service offering. What we are starting to see is the first shot of what I’ll call “AppWars” between the VoIP service providers, as each one rolls out more advanced service capabilities or adds what the others have to catch up. With today’s announcement, Packet 8 … Read more
With the signing of four carrier termination agreements last week, one with Level3, and others with Colt, Teleglobe and iBasis, Skype has released the first official version of it’s Peer 2 Peer VoIP client. But what’s more interesting is the future offering from Skype, to be called Skype Plus that will actually link up a … Read more
