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No one should be surprised by the comments from Qualcomm’s Len Lauer about WiMax. This is a repeat of the company’s perspective on WiFi back in the late 90’s and early 2000s’.

You can check out CrunchGears review of Fring, a service that conceptually I like, but have issues with the audio quality for business grade communications. I remember the early days of Vonage having similar issues, and a client on a call telling me to call back on a “real” phone. That’s something we don’t ever … Read more

The first quarter numbers are out from France Telecom and one of the most revealing statistics is the number of VoIP users that have added service. The number of “Voice over IP” services customers totalled 2.624 million at 31 March 2007, compared with 1.207 million a year ago. The growth was particularly strong in the … Read more

For those of you in the mobile industry at any kind of senior level, you will know the name of my good friend and local San Diego telecom marketing guru, Jeff Belk. For many years Jeff has been a fixture at Qualcomm, and while he’s still there, he’s actually on the move with his family … Read more

Hats off to Rich Tehrani and the team at TMC for landing a big fish to talk to the developers at next months conference in Santa Clara. They got the big Kahuna Paul Amery from Skype who is honchoing the Skype Developer’s Program. With only a month to go before the big eBay shindig in … Read more

I had a sense of DejaVU and did some sleuthing with the help of a friend after receiving a note from RebTel which directed me to a post on their blog about the Nokia N95 modifications being made by Vodafone and Orange that was previously reported here on VoIPWatch a few weeks back. That’s when … Read more

Jim has become a rabid fan of the Nokia Internet Tablet called the N800, and so have I. Jim can’t wait for the Skype client to come out for it, something I hear from Skype’s PR agency is coming, but with no firm release date. Now in fairness, Nokia is my agency’s client, but before … Read more

Today was a great day. My company was recognized by Paul Gillin in an Ad Age article, then Olga Kharif at Business Week recognized my FON post as being meritorious. Paul recognized us for our work that we’re doing with GrandCentral and Nokia and how our innovative approach at blending bloggers into outreach is shaping … Read more

Since 2001 I’ve had WiFi in my home office and been a heavy user of public and private hotspot operator’s networks the world over. That’s why I was always surprised to see the cable MSO’s so invisible when it comes to WiFi in public places. With cable strands running beneath the ground, and access already … Read more

Second Update: It appears the company marketing the X-PDA software for Pocket PC’s is Global IP Communications, a company that is based in Pennsylvania. On their “About” page they state “we’re now Preferred Development Partner of CounterPath Solutions with customers all over the world, developing ground-breaking software for the VoIP industry and our hardware is … Read more