Here I am in high tech Seattle in the very swanky W celebrating my one year anniversary with Helene in my life and it appears I’m having my Internet traffic monitored. It seems the hotel’s service provider LodgeNet has a firewall that looks for certain type of traffic and then slows you down to 56K … Read more
Om has a good post on Rupert Murdoch’s broadband plans citing the challenges but misses on one point. Towerstream. I keep hearing that Comcast has an interest in acquiring the Pre-WiMax company to compliment their existing wireless spectrum portfolio.
The more and more I talk with executives in the VoIP space, including those who have Vonage as customers or are Vonage customers (simply to monitor their service) the more I hear Vonage bashing. Today Alec jumps on that bandwagon, taking a slightly different tact. He explains how easy it is to become a competitor. … Read more
Exactly 52 Sundays ago today I met the woman who will become my wife. It would not have happened if a lot of things didn’t go right, and in some ways, wrong. First there was The National Debate’s Bob Cox pushing me to come to BloggerCon in Palo Alto. Then there was my winepal Bill … Read more
I’ve been using the MV100 from MVOX for since Fall VON and can tell you how great it sounds. If you think Polycom makes the best desktop speakerphones, these guys deliver something at a fraction of the price that goes with you and works very well. In most cases it has caused me to abandon … Read more
Ted Shelton, who is one of the better and more informed blogging execs out there makes nothing but sense in his post about the problems with Vonage E911 not working properly.
Peering, especially SIP based peering, is in my opinion about to become more important for VoIP carriers and users. With proper peering calls can stay on net and not cost anyone any additional costs. Here’s a note from Richard about a Birds of a Feather gathering on this subject.
I was looking around for international inbound numbers similar to Skype to work with GizmoProject or PhoneGnome as each provides me with a real SIP address meaning I can receive calls on them. I found this company VoxBone and their pricing looks interesting. Along with Libretel and VoIPUser these folks seem to make the world … Read more
More coverage keeps coming in about client TelEvolution’s SoftGnome release to extend PhoneGnome. Jon Arnold kicked in with some comments and Robyn Tippens added a podcast. Aswath also weighs in with some additional thoughts.
Despite the public stance of Nokia on VoIP I keep hearing rumblings that there is more to what they plan to do than what is known. If I recall correctly the upcoming release of their new E series phones will have some outfitted with a SIP client and some dual mode WiFi capabilities.
