News hawk Paul Kapustka, one of the embedded discussants at the VON Blogger Panel I have the good fortune to moderate breaks the news about Vonage customers being charged more money by a cable company to access the VoIP service. Given the change in stance with the FCC under Chairman Martin this may be a … Read more
Om and PaidContent both have notes about Yahoo and more DSL deals. These onramp deals for content continue to point to reasons why Yahoo won’t go into the PSTN replacement business any time soon. Yahoo’s on ramp relationships with co-branded DSL programs that are in essence dial up takeaways from AOL. That’s more important to … Read more
A few weeks back I had the opportunity to interview David Beckemeyer, CEO of TelEvolution and the inventor of PhoneGnome. The interview is now available for your listening pleasure.
Jeff is in London and ran into a port blocking experience, something I have also experienced in New Jersey last year. My feeling is if your paying xx pounds a day for High Speed Internet, you should have high speed Internet, not just access to the Web or Email. For my trips to Europe the … Read more
According to a report out of Taiwan, it would seem that Yahoo is possibly expanding their efforts there in VoIP.
Pal Martin Geddes has a very relevant rant about the issues with Skype and even BT Communicator when it comes to QoS (Quality of Service). I recently posed a question to Level3 about the issues associated with Skype here in the USA, and still await my answers from their engineering team.
MSNBC has a story out of Denver about E911 being ready, highlighting local companies in the Denver area including Qwest, NGT and Intrado. Intrado is making a lot of noise around AT&T being a customer. What they are doing is only supplying the Nomadic users with those services as a substitute for AT&T’s own in-house … Read more
Cell phone giant Samsung is introducing a VoIP service later this week in South Korea.
Firetide and Meru Networks are working together to make VoWiFI sound better, and operate more like cell phone networks. <This is a play that will only mean more as better next generation WiFi phones come to market, but based on what I have seen first hand with FireTide, this is a very significant move and … Read more
Ovum’s Future View Daily continues to perpetuate the myth that Google may buy Skype. As much as it would make sense, I think Google’s leadership team is smarter and more focused than to buy the alternative messaging and telephony startup. 1.Google already has as many daily visits as Skype has had downloads. 2. Googles reach … Read more
