I can hear it now, when users log on to AOL, they won’t just hear, “You’ve Got Mail” they will also hear “You’ve Got Messages.” That’s because AOL is in need of someone to manage their VoIP efforts as it seems they are getting ready to move into the VoIP space in 2005. They certainly … Read more
Jeff calls Verizon, and others like, them Parasites in a post found on his blog today. The lack of originality in the VoIP market is really amazing to me. Originality is disruptive. Me too is boring. While I can see offerings from smaller ISP’s that ride on the Level3 network and not call them boring, … Read more
The New York Times has a story in their Sunday edition about VoIP. My guess is the number of 300,000 users in the USA is likely lower than reality. Vonage is over 200,000 already according to their announced figures, and with all the others being so aggressive, such as Packet8 and AT&T Call Vantage, I … Read more
Read the last line. Classic. Much of the rest of the story is already known or expressed here and elsewhere, like GigaOm by Om Malik.
I’ll be playing around with the Packet8 VideoPhone next week, as I’ve had a house guest from Rome and she’s much more fun to spend time with than VideoPhones, but it looks like Packet8 has some competition according to a post on Engadget.
CNET’s Ben Charney, who I consider a very good writer, must be getting lots of information from SBC and Verizon’s PR team for his story about AT&T’s pull out takes a very interesting slant, and attempts to derail AT&T’s CallVantage. He asserts that bundling is the future, and that’s SBC’s big push these days. One … Read more
A report in the Rocky Mountain News claims Skype has 400,000 simultaneous users. Given they also claim 8 million downloads, that’s a five percent usage factor and likely means somewhere between 1 and 2 million of the people who downloaded the free P2P telephony service are really using it. That’s a SWAG on my part. … Read more
Skype announced four new partners today for SkypeOut and confirmed what Andy Abramson’s VoIPWatch said weeks back, that Level3 would be one of the carriers working with them. Well, let’s compare Old School Verizon to New School Skype. DeltaThree or Level3 and three more strong partners. Hmmmm…who was smarter. I’d say Skype wins….so do Teleglobe, … Read more
Word has leaked out via Boardwatch that Verizon chose DeltaThree to do the integration and network related work for their VoIP service, which they are calling VoiceWing. I guess they came up with that name, by looking down the hall to the wing of their office. Either that, or they were thinking the company was … Read more
It seems everyone looks to the Andy Man, for insight these days on the subject of VoIP. This time it’s PC World that linked back to this blog and had me comment, by phone, on yesterday’s Verizon announcement. The quote, which was as kind as I dared to be towards Verizon, was mild. In thinking … Read more
