VoIP

You can check out someone’s review of VoicePulse. The service sounds very feature rich and loaded with options.

DUH! You’d have to be an idiot to not see the price war for VoIP looming. Minutes have been marginalized, now it’s all about services, baby.

This story is a day old, but didn’t seem to get picked up by the many USA centric blogger/journalists. BT (British Telecom) has opted to go all IP nationwide in the UK by 2006/07. These are ambitious plans, but the British Isles are not that big, there are fewer competitors. For PTT’s making the switch … Read more

A clone of what Level3 is offering has been created by Nuvio and 1TouchTone. The concept seems to make sense. Once company provides the technology package, the other provides the billing and more important customer facing and marketing. These are much like the providers who Virgin and AT&T have opted to buy from to launch … Read more

Converge Network Digest has another excellent primer on VoIP, this time aimed toward educating us all about Consumer VoIP. It’s a bit remedial in some ways, but in its own way a breezy, yet informative read.

Anyone worth their salt knows that connectivity at trade shows is horrible, especially with Wi-Fi. The story by a ZD reporter shows how easily anyone can trash progress. Considering how much good news came out of VON (see pulver.com) someone had to be a party pooper.

Primus has launched Lingo in the USA with a $19.99 service plan that includes calls to Canada and Western Europe. What about Mexico? One would think with the amount of families in the boarder states (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas) that there is a market. Don’t forget, they are huge calling card/prepaid users. In places … Read more

Level3 has become the underlying carrier and termination provider to 8×8’s Packet8 network. This marks the first of what I expect to be a series of wins for Level3 based on their current sales efforts.

Skype’s has finally officially announced the Skype Out service at VON Europe today, according to Light Reading. The more interesting reference is to Skype In, and the hurdles involved. Obviously, Skype is heading towards a full featured service.

At the Wall Street Journal’s D Conference yesterday, Verizon announced their plans to enter the competitive VoIP market. Why not? In making the announcement the chairman said they have a national presence, why not sell it. As the first RBOC to roll out VoIP nationally, Verizon goes head to head with AT&T and Vonage. It … Read more