Delta has become the third USA air carrier to launch in flight internet service with service on their five shuttle routes, with the other two being American Airlines and Virgin America. I’ve yet to personally experience the service, but I’ll be on an American Airlines flight tonight and have all my toys to try out … Read more
Jon Arnold has moved his blog to a new home. http://www.ipcom-insights.com/blog/jon/
The last time Radio Shack sold a laptop almost as small as the Acer Aspire One, it was the TRS-100. Now, the long time consumer electronics chain is working with AT&T and Acer to market the Acer Aspire One netbook, complete with an internal 3G modem for $99 plus a contract of 12 months bringing … Read more
Doug Mohney has penned an excellent piece about what will hasten the death spiral of Vonage. His well timed editorial, based largely around the announcement by Verizon to rollout a real VoIP service called Digital Voice (wow what a creative brand name) is well in keeping with my rationale as to why the consumer VoIP … Read more
We all know that without decent internet connectivity that VoIP and all that comes with it won’t be adopted. When I travel and have great bandwidth, with low latency, no packet loss and an absence of jitter, it’s like the other party is in the same room. On the other hand, unless you stand over … Read more
As we all know the slowdown in the economy means telcos won’t be spending as much on “new” and “shiny” so that means the suppliers get the brunt first. Last Friday Sonus laid off 50 people.
In the tightening economy, one area where we’re seeing lots of growth is in the pre-paid mobile phone market. Why? Spending becomes more predictable and their is less of a drain on the monthly budget. Companies with runaway cell phone costs may end up looking into pre-paid and other services that provides them with greater … Read more
It’s not a surprise that Cisco is seeing growth in the enterprise market with telephony gear. No company is better poised to do well in the on-premise PBX market than Cisco as a result of their market swarm and dominate approach. While Avaya is number two, the pressure from others will consume them while Cisco … Read more
The speeds for broadband connectivity in the UK are going to increase, with both Virgin and BT rolling out two different versions of high speed networks to their existing customer bases. Virgin, which uses the same approach as USA cable operators like Comcast, is going to kick speeds up from 20 megs to 50, while … Read more
