Travel satirist Joe Sharkey has penned a piece about Video Conferencing that ran in the New York Times. This type of coverage supports the theory that video conferencing is now at the mainstream level. Now, if Skype would only handle multi-party calls like SightSpeed, we’d have something really, really big.
When I first heard about Verizon, the landline telco, starting to go into the business of offering WiFi, I thought, “here we go again” as we’ve already seen them start, then stop deploying hotspots in their service markets. Back in 2003/2004 Verizon did to WiFi the same as AOL did to VoIP. They bent over … Read more
One of the problems with most of the consumer satellite broadband offerings has been the issue of latency. Well it sounds like Europe and the UK will be the first to experience a new form of Satellite broadband that’s good enough for streaming media and VoIP. The service called Tooway is due to roll out … Read more
Two posts this week about Skype and mobile operators by Om Malik and Rich Tehrani underscores why playing with your competition makes sense. What’s interesting is neither has had any first hand experience (that I know of) using the 3 Skype service in the UK as I have. If they did, they would have been … Read more
Ever since I wrote about my interest in learning more about T-Mobile @ Home experiences a few weeks back, I’ve been getting notes via email from many a reader who like me has had AT&T’s CallVantage service. I’ve also seen blog posts like this one, from others who were part of the early testing programs … Read more
Radio Netherlands has an interesting comment about T-Mobile/Netherlands not being opposed to Skype on the iPhone, while sister T-Mobile Germany is. In the Netherlands, T-Mobile is the exclusive provider of iPhones. T-Mobile Nederland is not against the use of Skype on its network. The German branch of the company, however, is blocking its use by … Read more
It’s been two years or so and my love affair with the AT&T 3G network is waning. Until the 7 billion dollar network upgrade happens, those of us on the west coast California market will have to make due with the hope and prayer that that the iPhone carry crowd doesn’t always bog down our … Read more
While Stacey Higginbotham @ Gigaom is busily keeping a very careful eye on what the cable operators are going to do with metered bandwidth, I’ve been given thought to what they will do to really make money. The answer resides in how the MSO’s have always made money. Charging the newly minted content providers as … Read more
A UK company, CellCrypt is now offering secure mobile VoIP calling. For years people have always worried if their cell phone calls can be monitored. Those inside the industry know it was always possible. This solution sounds like another step in the right direction to protect your communications, as long as the algorithm includes the … Read more
QIK and Cubic Telecom, led by pal Pat Phelan, have taken the first step towards helping traveling mobile users save money on more than calls, by launching a mobile roaming platform, called QikRoam, that includes discounted global data roaming. First, as one of the founders of Cubic Telecom shared with me a few months back … Read more
