Verizon Cutting VoIP Prices

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Verizon is having a fire sale on VoIP according to Ben Charny. Frost and Sullivan’s Lynda Starr thinks it’s an attempt to get some more traction, which I agree with. The problem is that VoiceWing is more of an experiment at Verizon than a full blown initiative. It was originally designed as a counter to … Read more

Gee. Something packet 8 Didn’t Buy

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Packet 8 was playing the product placement game last year with Alias, so I was surprised last monday night when I was watching 24 and the script had a drunk dude asking Chloe O’Brien if she was doing the VoIP thing. One would have thought that would have been a great time to have woven … Read more

Vonage Adds More Nations

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Kudo’s to Tom Keating for one I missed last week. Vonage added unlimited calling to France, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the UK.This is good news for ex-pats families, but I don’t see how it increases the bottom line unless Vonage begins out reach campaigns to those who need to call Europe more. And since those … Read more

Mobile VoIP in Norway

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Telecom Tsunami has a very comprehensive write up on the emerging Mobile VoIP market in Norway. The story here is all about Mobile Convergence. That’s good news for BridgePort Networks, NewStep, Outsmart and other who are in the space. With the Network Equipment Providers like Siemens entering the game, the time to market for these … Read more

VoIP Think Tank On The Net

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Ken Camp has produced what will be a monthly VoIP podcast and I’m one of the talking heads.  Other bloggers sharing an opinion includeAlec Saunders, Ted Wallingford, and Dameon Welch-Abernathy.

Camp and Enck Bubley on BridgePort Networks

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Ken Camp and James Enck have the jump in the blogosphere on BridgePort Networks landing a huge deal with Siemens for the NomadicOne solution that is being put into Siemens IMS offerings. That means GSM and CDMA carriers and the cable guys will all be able to play nice in moving calls between networks in … Read more

AOL To Add PhoneLine To Messenger

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In a very expected move, AOL has added a phone line to its very popular AIM Messenger as part of their Triton project. Tabbed as AIM PhoneLine (what a great name) , now you’ll be able to punch out the digits and talk, going well beyond just tapping away at the keys with Messenger. This … Read more

Is Google Bluffing?

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Mark Sullivan of LightReading has a good story about MuniWireless and Google today over on LightReading that makes some people wonder how serious Google is about Muni-WiFi. I think this is all stealth marketing and the real end game has yet to be brought to light.