Ok, so to be upfront as always, we represent some of the cooler companies around. Boingo and Truphone leads that list, as both are at the forefront of technology and making things easier for the road warrior. Especially the International Road Warrior who makes lots of calls back to the USA and Canada from other … Read more
Garrett Smith, who pens, Smith on VoIP has started a series of postings where he’s interviewing the top movers and shakers in VoIP on the topic of Mobile VoIP. So far I’ve reviewed the postings about clients Junction Networks, ifByPhone, Mobivox CEO Peter Diedrich and pal Ari Rabban of Phone.com. Garrett conducts these “interviews” the … Read more
Client Mobivox is making news this week with their new multilingual platform and their partnership with Unyk going to the next level. Here are the details. This is very important as Alec Saunders pointed out yesterday, in that Mobivox has been able to transition from a validate the model consumer play into a platform play … Read more
San Diego based Novatel Wireless makes my favorite 3G USB modem, the 950. Today they unveiled a very cool new product called MiFi. It’s really a product line and is a take off of Cradlepoint, but with a big difference. Novatel has already established distribution with the mobile GSM and CDMA operators around the world. … Read more
Two news items of note around Skype and my take. First is this Skype calling interoperability by 28Tel called Mobile 2 Skype. It sounds a lot like what former client TalkPlus attempted to do and didn’t do with Skype, though not due their own efforts. It also reads really like what iSkoot has done by … Read more
Dean Bubley points to a story in the UK about mobile contract defaults and the likelihood of it becoming a bigger problem in 2009. I can draw a comparison to the VoIP industry as well. Here’s why. For the companies that provide a free ATA (Vonage, Packet8, Earthlink, etc.) in exchange for a contract commitment, … Read more
I’ve been watching the video calling space for a while now, dating back to before getting involved with SightSpeed. As time has moved along video calling seems to keep being tried and tried. MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Skype ooVoo are in the same league as SightSpeed, but all don’t offer their quality, but each has … Read more
Paul Kapustka, best known these days for his WiMax focused SideCut Reports, has penned a very concise, complete and clear roadmap of what is ahead for the now all things full speed ahead “Clearwire.” The agenda shows that Barry West and his team from former XOHM, Clearwire and the partners have their act together from … Read more
With the mobile operators leaning on Apple to not let VoIP calls be received easily on the iPhone, one has to wonder really if it’s the operators or Apple. Dean Bubley of Disruptive Wireless got me thinking today about that as he mused about the pending Dell UMPC with an embedded 3G data chip on … Read more
Om has a post about the expected explosion of Mobile Broadband. In the USA one expert I know said for AT&T to double capacity of their network “it will take a 7 billion dollar coat of paint.” That’s a lot of iPhones.
