Vonage has posted an open position for Director of Investor Relations. This is a position that normally is only for public companies and would be a sign that they plan the public offering to happen. On a related note, a long time industry Field Level VIP related reader tells me that two of Vonage’s sales … Read more
It’s clear that the mobile carriers are doing their best to keep as many minutes on their networks by hook or by crook. Dean Bubley, one of the better and free thinking mobile analysts has spent a lot of time covering the mobile/fixed mobile convergence space and weighs in with an opinion. His closing point … Read more
Jim Courtney has a good wrap up of Day One at VON Canada. Despite it being a smaller footprint in show size and number of attendees, what’s clear to me is that the VoIP world lives beyond the borders of the USA and the one constant in all of the VoIP action is Jeff Pulver … Read more
Ryan Single of WiredNews has an account on the Z-Fone software. It is very revealing and provides SIP based callers a way to keep things more secret, even wth Gizmo that already has it’s own secret code!
If you want to know what’s happening in D.C. with the David Isenberg Freedom to Connect Event you can listen to the stream here.
VON Canada is underway. Reports are that all things are going as planned. Client Alec Saunders delivered the Monday Industry Insight. His company, iotum also announced a key development around the Relevance Engine technology for Asterisk users. Already the blogosphere is noting the importance of it with comments from the more technically inclined VoIP bloggers. … Read more
i2Telecom, the people behind VoiceStick have announced that they are now 911 and E911 ready as they have worked with Intrado to provide VoIP functionality through over the 1700 Public Service Access Points. They claim they will also add another 1000 in the next four months. I see this somewhat as a breakthrough and wonder … Read more
A report out of the UK has Apple’s iPhone being released in consort with Helio, though I’ve heard more than likely it will be with Cingular, but since Helio is a CDMA play, they could get it on that side of the world. The key to this is what is tabbed FMC (fixed mobile convergence) … Read more
CNNMoney.com postulates that Vonage may be a better takeover or buyout category than an IPO. Hmmm…who would want it is the big question? The author suggests Sprint, Qwest or Verizon, but I’m thinking more of someone like a T-Mobile who wants a ground game to compliment their air game. Rumors out of Seattle describe a … Read more
Forget today is April Fools Day. Yesterday, and even before that, the sentiment around the Vonage IPO seemed to be swooning. I’m actually surprised and despite all of my prior skepticism around Vonage as company, all I’ve been hearing from people close to the brokerage business is that for months one of the most asked … Read more
