XO, which has more ups and downs than almost any company in the telecom space and seems to have survived is going after the business market. That is a space that will be very crowded, if it isn’t already. Many local companies, plus Verizon, Sprint, MCI, Qwest and Level3–well just about any company selling bandwidth … Read more
AT&T has ramped up and rolled out its VoIP service, CallVantage offering availability in 100 markets. When you think how fast AT&T has gone from zero to 100 in number of markets it is rather impressive, and in many ways they are really lighting the fuse for all of VoIP as a residential play. Vonage, … Read more
Reports are that Jeff Pulver has been working on an integrated application that combines VoIP, presence, IM and aspects of social networking. He’s about to release it another limited trial “as is” BETA version of the application. This one is version .80. Pulver, who is nothing less than a visionary is clearly someone who can … Read more
Forrester Research has noted that VoIP [voice over IP] will overtake standard phones globally by 2007, with Europe not far behind, according to a report originating within the pages of Computer Reseller News. The key here is all the people they spoke to are either enterprise data managers or companies that sell to them. As … Read more
Seems one of the regular readers, and someone who email’s me regularly has made significant headway in having Packet8 and 8 x 8 Networks get me on their roadmap (finally). I’m being sent their telephone adapter and the new video phone. Once I receive the equiment I’ll hook it into the system and if anyone … Read more
Velocitus, an Idaho company has launched a VoIP service, competing with QWEST in the state. Both are currently targeting the business market, but are expected to go after the residential market later in the year. This is good for business in Idaho and likely the tip of the iceberg for just how competive the market … Read more
Eweek’s Ellen Muraskin evaluates the competitive landscape surrounding AT&T’s entry into the VoIP market, supporting what has been said here before about them. It’s about brand. Vonage, Broadvoice and Primus are also mentioned.
Another survey tells you what you already know. There is a revolution underway and it’s spelled VoIP. The key points from the announcement: — Rapidly increases new service deployment — Substantially changes network architectures — Levels the playing field between large and small players, telecom and cable carriers Despite the rosy outlook for VoIP deployment, … Read more
Information Week bit on the Vonage no need to dial 1 plus the area code release of yesterday and has a rather nice story about the area code less calling. But while the author reports that some analyst thinks area codes are going away, I have another angle. Bye bye toll free 800 numbers. It … Read more
I don’t think my day could have started out any better than when I found out from Ken Rutkowski that I was on CNN.com. Seems they picked up Ellen Simon’s story about Voice over IP. It’s all about the blog… Then pal Bob Cox ran an item in The National Debate’s Daily Rundown. It doesn’t … Read more
