The New York Times has a detailed breakdown of the the Verizon announcement in today’s online edition which registration is required. There’s a lot about this that indicates this is a “oh #$^%R, we better get into this space now” type of effort from Verizon, rather than one that has been too well thought out. … Read more
Surveys are rather good ways to confirm what you think you know. That’s why today’s announcement from Ipsos-Insight is only slightly revealing about USA based Internet users and their intention to move towards VoIP. The survey shows that nearly one in five Internet users will switch to VoIP, and that DSL and dial up users … Read more
Pal Rich Tehrani, who I’ve known off and on for a few years has a very positive first person account on his AT&T Call Vantage experience, while dissing Vonage at the same time. While my number portability experience with Vonage was very painless, seems Rich’s was so bad he ended up swapping out for AT&T’s … Read more
Alcatel, the French telecom giant, has planted its flag on Vietnam. If there is a country to watch for rapid growth in the Southeast Asian market, it’s Vietnam. They have a very industrious workforce, have been planning their Internet policies for at least the last four years, have based the laws to be globally friendly. … Read more
Covad is clearly gearing up for their push to sell the GoBeam service and the announcement about a white paper is the first step to begin generating news coverage. I’ll provide additional commentaryafter digesting the white paper, but here are some thoughts collected about the GoBeam acquisition: 1) When Covad purchased GoBeam, there were reportedly … Read more
Cynthia Webb has a really good roundup of media coverage about VoIP on WashingtonPost.com which I found via Yahoo News.
UK ISP Freedom To Surf has released a VoIP service that works with Microsoft’s Windows Messenger (not not MSN Messenger). The version of Windows Messenger works either by making a system call on the SIP stack resident in the Windows XP OS or uses h.323, an older, yet still stable way to make VoIP calls. … Read more
Danny Klein, one of my favorite VoIP analysts with the Yankee Group, is quoted in a press release from his firm about the potential influx of VC funding into VoIP. With all this money out there, you would think that instead of another service provider coming on board, that someone would create some usefull services. … Read more
VoIP via your PocketPC isn’t ready for prime time, according to MercCenter’s Sam Diaz. I’m with Sam on this one, but not for all the same reasons. First, the cost of a PDA is equal or greater than for any cell phone. Second the audio quality on many Pocket PC’s is just brutal. It wasn’t … Read more
In the world of PR, positioning, is everything. Mindshare, as Bill Ryan, of Portola Strategies, likes to call it, is equally important. So once a topic, like VoIP get’s mindshare, because the story is appealing to reporters, you begin to see the affected, afflicted and disenfrnchised strike back. They strike back via a strategy called … Read more
