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It’s all just a matter of time before AT&T and SBC are one. Today in Denver the AT&T shareholders voted yes for the merger in a landslide.

TelcoTrash which has a good viewpoint singles out pal James Enck and his coverage of Skype, while also providing some links to some other good Skype related content.

A writer over at Slate has done an exhaustive series of testing. Why am I not surprised that the best of the bunch was what I use primarily as my VoIP provider, CallVantage. While I agree with assessment of Packet8 and Vonage, I have had an entirely different experience with BroadVoice, which has been nothing … Read more

Tom keeps the world thinking Linksys will do an IP=PBX play in the future… What would happen if they imbedded something like Peerio or Asterisk on the boards of their wireless VoIP products…

Seems James Enck has a source telling him the Net2Phone service is layered beneath the MCI VoIP offering…My sources say it’s likely real. So what does this mean…let’s play connect the dotsies…. Net2Phone–back inside IDT IDT—>Services to MCI (USA and Europe???) IDT—> John Malone his company Liberty Media and the United Cable boys are rather … Read more

It looks like the spinout of Net2Phone from IDT is over and that the parent is taking in the child. I also think that this means that IDT is moving more and more into the VOIP space and that by this move continues the trend of consolidation and acquisition that Yahoo began with their Dialpad … Read more

I’m helping spread the word about Voxilla as they expand into Canada with a new product distribution and service effort. The rationale is straightforward. Canada is seeing VoIP adoption. Why should their citizens have to pay extra for the same products. While this won’t make Jeff Bezos lose sleep, Marcelo Rodriguez and Paul Crick are … Read more

Om has caught wind of a rumor that Teleo is being acquired by Microsoft. The buy would follow Microsoft’s strategy of buying a company with technology that compliments their core strategy. The Placeware acquisition would be a good example as does LookOutSoft which integrates into Outlook.

It seems being interoperable with Skype may be as important as interoperating with PSTN. Already we have seen Popular Telephony with PeerioBiz, JaJah and now Wavigo all move in that direction.

I Skyped with Skype PR princess Kelly Larabee this afternoon trying out the Skype Pocket PC client on the new Samsung i730. While I couldn’t (yet) get the Bluetooth headset to work with the Skype client, I could use the speakerphone without any issues. The call was clear as a Bell (well better actually.)