Drunken Sailor Spending @ Vonage

Ted Shelton draws attention to something I’ve pointed out before. The spending to the point of excess that Vonage seems to be doing. The kind of numbers which Ted alludes to numbers that are out of the stratosphere and one would think that Vonage was Coca-Cola. First off Vonage only has a million lines. I … Read more

Why Is Level3 Having Major Outages?

Last week Level3 had an outage that was at the root level, disrupting all types of Internet traffic and putting some customers, like AOL, off the hook for 20 minutes or so. While their SLA’s require them to provide an answer, the real explanation has yet to surface beyond some comments about an edge router. … Read more

CALEA Opponents Unite

Jeff Pulver is really good at being a catalyst for change. He has largely been the torch bearer for VoIP, SIP and now to help make sense out of the FCC’s CALEA interpretation as to how it applies to VoIP.

Deja Vu in Wireless

When Sprint PCS first started many of the cable companies were their partners, then the shares became a tracking stock and eventually the cable operators cashed out. Now they seem to be getting back into bed together.

Flock

Check out Flock. While I’m trying to get del.isio.us to work I do see some very cool features. It’s software like this which is kicking Microsoft’s butt.

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Check out Flock. While I’m trying to get del.isio.us to work I do see some very cool features. It’s software like this which is kicking Microsoft’s butt.

If I Was Rupert Murdoch and Son James….

I’d make two deals very quickly..First is I would by SiPPhone because it simply works and already follows open standards…SIP. Then I would buy Vonage because it fits into the News Corp strategy of buying assets that already have market share and a team. When you add in the SipPhone technology team and scalable infrastructure … Read more