CompUSA has gone direct and wants to offer small businesses VoIP via a partnership with BandWidth.com, one of Level3’s biggest resellers. What does this mean? Well basically VONAGE and AT&T spent oodles of dollars in what is called bounties and slotting allowances, MAP funds and more to build the category and make people aware that … Read more
This year’s VON was the biggest and best ever in many ways. VON never looked better. The smoothness in which it operated is a credit to Jason, Scott and the team that puts it on. The hallways and show floor was full of bodies and the exhibitors all have clearly moved from pipe and drape … Read more
When the biggest unpaid cheerleader Skype ever had, Stuart Henshall, gets down on Skype, you have to take at least a moment and wonder what’s up so give his post a read. In Skype’s defense Henry Gomez, the major domo in the USA was traveling and had to pass on a VON keynote opportunity. Skype … Read more
Keynote Systems, which last year released their first VoIP quality study wants to give users and providers both a monitoring and reporting mechanism that measures the customer experience.
Om thinks that Earthlink needs to get more aggressive. I think they need to get smarter. All indications are that they are suffering from bloat and growth but that their middle management is not really in sync with the CEO’s vision. They have too many parallel product offerings and don’t get their story out really … Read more
The idea of a WiFi phone is nothing new. Already I’ve been using one from Zyxel when I go on the road that’s connected to a Broadvoice SIP address. It really makes things easy, and gives me a real phone to use in hotels. We’re also seeing the proliferation of phones that are Skype compatible. … Read more
Consumer electronics giant SONY is adding VoIP, GPS and other tricks to the Play Station Portable according to MacWorld. This is significant because it means that in the consumer world of young adults VoIP and location based offerings start to take hold very early.
Port blocking could be the death of new services and it’s something that AT&T’s Chairman supports. Not so with QWEST. This is very important because it directly impacts lots of new voice services and other 2.0 type of applications as well as content delivery. For years companies like Microsoft have feared this also, largely out … Read more
Lots happening at VON and sadly I’m in more meetings and briefings than having time to blog. Met with Tello and I like where they’re going…I’m expecting some cool things from the bigger portal guys in the space but it seem the announcement are more post VON, but the buzz I’m hearing is rather interesting … Read more
Not many tech startups make Entrepreneur Magazine so hats off to David Beckemeyer, one of the bloggers (i.e. Mr. Blog) who will be on the VON Blogger Panel. The story hit the streets in February, but is just now online. Why are we proud? The company hasn’t even done a Series A in funding, largely … Read more
