I activated SkypeOut today so I can test and see how well it works. Being that it was too early to call anyone, I will wait and try an international call later tonight and see how it sounds. The activation was very straightforward. All it took was a credit card. The bill in Euros and … Read more
MovieFone, which provides movie listings by web site and phone across the USA will be using the Level3 inbound calling VoIP platform to make it easy, and now less costly when consumers want to know “what’s playing.” I expect this to be the first of a flurry of announcement by Level3 and other VoIP carriers … Read more
Eurotechblog has an exhaustive review of Peerio from Popular Telephony. It is a very accurate and great read.
AT&T is taking the hits now, to be better for the long haul. This is how I read today’s announcement about reducing earnings. The reason for the announcement has to do with the concept of guidance, which is what public companies either do as practice to tell investors what’s going on, or choose not to … Read more
Jeff Pulver revealed that Xten knows when you use its software to make VoIP calls. While I don’t know how much of a privacy issue this raises, since the phone company knows each time you make a call currently, I am wondering what security issues that raises, based on the data being transmitted. For example, … Read more
More viewpoints about the adoption, or slow progress VoIP will have in Canada is coming to light, this time from the National Post of Canada. While the stats have been beaten to death here and elsewhere, there is no faulting the reporter who clearly identified what VoIPWatch has been saying for a long time. Marketing … Read more
This is the kind of announcement I like. Where technology goes where it hasn’t before, publicly oor at least with any notoriety. Teton Wireless has taken VoIP and worked it in to their MMDS wireless delivery network, giving the residents of a part of the USA which has been infrastructure challenged.
Ted Shelton over at ipInferno which is one of the better blogs to follow, for like GigaOm, the approach is journalism first with informed and insightful opinion. Being that my agency represents Popular Telephony for their SuperComm efforts, offering others the oppotunity to tell the story. Ted, like Om Malik yesterday has proivided a very … Read more
As we reported yesterday on KenRadio’s World Technology Roundup, Yahoo has added the ability to terminate calls into Instant Messenger, but with a twist, here in the USA. Just like what they did with British Telecom (BT) they are doing that with carriers, rather than creating their own phone company using private labeled services from … Read more
QWEST, which has over the past three years been digging into the VoIP space, evaluating suppliers and building an all IP based network announced yesterday they have deployed OneFlex for the business market. Given they are both a Regional Bell Carrier and a Nationwide long distance supplier on the telco side, and global carrier on … Read more
