VoIP

SKYPE keeps making noise that they will terminate and provide that for what sounds like it will be free, in exchange for selling value added services.

MCI has demonstrated they are going after the business market with their VoIP push that was announced today. So while AT&T is going after consumers aggressively this quarter and likely for the next 8 or more, MCI has decided to go where AT&T has already been, the business market. But this time, with a twist. … Read more

Click4Talk has released a web browser and banner ad friendly applet that enables VoIP on a Click and talk basis. While the concept has been around for a few years, Hilton Hotels has used it for a long time, the packaging up of an easy to use interface, the browser and the ability to reach … Read more

Verizon, who I always consider a follower, not the leader–even if they become the giant, has announced a major push into VoIP. They also are pushing higher speed DSL rates in order to compete with the cable companies…oh can you see the price, service and port blocking wars coming down the pike…I can.

For those who care about the technology that makes VoIP work Computerworld has a nice primer.

Michael Powell yesterday told the incumbent carriers, watch out. VoIP is likely to change their world. Haven’t I been saying that here for months, as has Om Malik and Jeff Pulver. The VoIP game is only beginning. Yesterday I used my AT&T CallVantage to organize a conference call. Cost. Free. For conference calls for up … Read more

Today’s New York Times (registration required) provides a recap of what the USA cable companies are saying and doing with VoIP. For some, like Cox, they keep selling an ATM over Sonet based solution. For others, it seems to be hybrid, leveraging their existing cable plant. While the concerns about voice quality may have been … Read more

Less than a week ago I signed up for a trial of AT&T’s new CallVantage service. Based on some initial calling I can only say that people on the other end have no clue I’m using VoIP until I tell them so. The call quality is as close to PSTN as I have heard to … Read more

In an article that is largely driven by Net2Phone, Internet Week draws attention to the expanding role VoIP will play in the country if Vietnam. VoIP will indeed play a role in many countries. Given the developing nations status of Vietnam, VoIP has a chance to possibly make the country the next Singapore. Already the … Read more

A non-exclusive alliance between Cisco and Ericcson is rather interesting, especially when one realizes that a few years back Cisco struke deals with USA based RBOC’s to be integrators with them. The implecations are far reaching, with the biggest being that CISCO can leverage already existing Ericsson softswitch technology and add onto it at both … Read more