It’s turning into a holy war as the loyalists square off with the not so ready to believe. Erik’s point about SIP is very well taken. Like him, I think standards based technology will win out. Skype, while an overnight success story only has to integrate SIP into itself and the telco world would change … Read more
The independent directors who are part of the Net2Phone board have said, the current IDT offer is not enough. Now they want to bring in outside evaluators to tell them what the Intellectual Property is worth. This may turn into one of the soap operas of the summer and fall. And I thought first run … Read more
Access to VoIP is in 95% of the USA’s zipcodes according to an FCC announcement. This then means that VoIP is available in 95 percent of the USA. How the VoIP providers approach the one person in timbuktu versus the masses in the more densly high speed user communities is called marketing. What I don’t … Read more
I missed this one that both Om and Stewart found. Call it the Holiday Weekend Non Blog Focus and thirty guests at a party here at the house I was getting ready for. It also continues to validate my back of the napkin math about how much Vonage is spending to gain a customer, and … Read more
Dina @ SkypeJournal questions the sincerity of the recent Skype questionaire/survey sent out to some subscribers. It was meant to validate, not project based on the questions I saw. While I fully agree with Dina’s assessment that Skype missed some opportunities, I also understand their motivation. The survey was in my view a way to … Read more
I agree.
As a VoIP advocate I also enjoy sober moments, just like as a Wine Drinker I enjoy my times away from the glass. That’s why I’m so happy to see Om take a shot at two research reports that he saw yesterday. I actually decided NOT To blog about one of them as I couldn’t … Read more
Vonage has struck a deal with Instant Messenger aggregator PalTalk of New York to resell Vonage service to its user base. While the release doesn’t go into detail, I would hope that the relationship would include a softphone integration with PalTalk, I wonder what that does to the relationship between XTEN and Vonage.
One of the things I love about CallVantage and Broadvoice is how rapidly each of those companies support teams jumps on problems and get back to me with answers, usually its a senior tech or ops person. Sometimes it’s a ranking executive, but always the problem gets resolved, even if I’m proxing for a reader … Read more
British Telecom which has to play major catch-up in the VoIP game and next gen network world has identified where their 21CN starts. I’m guessing Martin or James will have some commentary and insight as they’re right in the middle of all that in the UK. The Ovum report seems to indicate BT has some … Read more
