I’m in Chicago on business the next few days and having a blast at my Wayport wireless powered hotel. Why? First the wireless is totally free and 802.11g to boot in all parts of my two room oversized suite at the Wyndham, a chain which has approached things right. Seems they ripped out the STSN … Read more
Vonage keeps making major moves, this time adding WilTel as a partner for additional access to landline termination and a Outlook plug in called Click2Call. Click2Call is a great feature as integration with Outlook only makes life a lot easier.
It looks like some states want to write legislation that will slow down the deployment and acceptance of VoIP. States Righters have been around for as long as states have existed in the Union. The Goevrnment when writing the constitution granted them powers to govern themselves, largely out of the fact that before the Revolutionary … Read more
Skype is claiming two carriers are now signed to enable termination to any phone in the USA. Who they are is anyone’s guess. It could be one of the next gen carriers like Level3 or Global Crossing, or it could be QWEST. All three have lots of dark fiber that needs filling. Or it could … Read more
Juniper Research has issued a report on the expected growth of VoIP and drawn some conclusions. While most are obvious to those in the VoIP industry (i.e. space) the call for the need for standards and to me, interoperability is the most important. Sure service offerings that are bundled (i.e. phone, email, internet access etc.) … Read more
Yesterday at the annual shareholders meeting of AT&T (NYSE: T), Chairman and CEO Dave Dorman spoke about the next steps for AT&T as they forge ahead as the major player in IP based services. In watching and listening to the speech it was rewarding to hear how much of commitment the company is really making … Read more
How does VoIP work? The Associated Press has a nice recap that is making the rounds of online newspapers.
The Globe and Mail, Toronto’s best newspaper, has a very nice profile with the founder of Skype. Can you say PR in action? I can.
Business 2.0 (Subscription required) has a nice profile on both Vonage and AT&T’s CallVantage offering. The last few paragraphs are indeed interesting thoughts about Vonage future. IPO or will they be acquired, that is the question. Their founder, Louis Holder is on the speaking circuit, talking at the Morgan Stanley conference soon. Those types of … Read more
Skype has competition. Peerio.com My guess is what their parent company will announce at Supercomm is more than they are letting on.
