Light Reading today has back to back stories about companies doing the right thing and putting their money where their customer’s mouths have been going for years. Nokia and AT&T are both making large seven figure contributions to the Red Cross, about the most legit place the money can go that insures the contributions really … Read more
I was browsing through the online version of the Best Buy circular today and saw the Geek Squad Installation offer that bundles in a wireless router by NetGear and AT&T’s CallVantage. I’m wondering if this is a sign now that the merger is all but a formality if they are going to gear up after … Read more
It looks like Skype, which already has boatloads of cash from their VC’s is going the Strategic capital route and may be raising money from Hutchison Whampoa. I would not be surprised to also see a handset manufacturer come into the mix as well.
For the past few years my mom has been calling me long distance, but of late, now that I reinforced the point of my local Philadelphia CallVantage number she finally began using it. Why? She decided to trim her phone budget by some $25.00 a month eliminating unnecessary features like three way calling, speed dial … Read more
In what has to be great news for both Level3 and AT&T, two of the network suppliers that really keep the cable industry moving, Russell Shaw reported on some very interesting numbers of subscribers to VoIP. The two carriers supply a lot of the underlying carriage of traffic to the MSO’s which is why the … Read more
Today Skype announced a deal with E-Plus, the third carrier in Germany that enables free calling over E-Plus’ data network. Basically this makes Skype an approved means of communications on the network, but in essence says that Skype is an attractive lure for many to get them to use high speed wireless data (3G & … Read more
Om in a long post talks about commodity voice and the declining ARPU. I say what I have been saying all along. The money is in the APPS, not the minutes. People have already demonstrated they will pay for features that give them benefits. That’s the real future of VoIP. Let’s look at how we … Read more
Erik raises the question why Microsoft bought Teleo. My guess is there is something in the patents that Teleo has filed that was attractive enough to make them feel they have a reason to own it beyond deploying it as a front end to MSN Messenger. Teleo had originally made claims that they were a … Read more
Jon Arnold, former Frost and Sullivan Telco guru, now out on his own, gives PhoneGnome a glowing review.
Two months ago or so Om predicted that Teleo would be bought by Microsoft. Well that day has arrived. The announcement, which is meaningless in the long run, indicates that the Teleo technology will be part of MSN Messenger. I think that’s just some of MSFT’s stock in trade of throwing the competition off in … Read more
