The Seattle Times today breaks a story about hometown telecom/wireless company T-Mobile and their growth in the hot spot business. For the first time ever, the company has broken ranks and actually discussed numbers. The two important numbers are 450,000 active paying customers, and one million sessions per month. I’m going to go out on … Read more
Coming back from Chicago yesterday I must have caught a cold on my Southwest flight back. I’d been feeling one coming on and now are feeling it full on. As such, there will be a slow down on postings for a few days while I recover.
Engadget has a rumor that really startedwith Om Malik that Skype and Yahoo may hook up…If they do, it will be very interesting.
A show this big, with all the news or I should say, Announcement, it generates showed me five key takeaways to keep my eyes on for the next six months: IMS IPTV FTTx VoWiFi and VoIP WiMax Companies that are in those spaces are going to be where the news will be made for the … Read more
VoIPStick may be the first out the door with an idea like this, but U3, a Redwood City based company is taking things a lot further, with a whole line of on USB memory stick based applications. The one with Skype is the most appealing to me simply because it means that you can leave … Read more
I recently was informed about GorillaMobile, a telco bypass (i.e. minute stealer in the telcos lexicon). While this is a good idea for those who make lots of international calls, it is only good if you don’t have what CallVantage has to offer. For international calls I regularly dial into Control by Phone, which is … Read more
Since VoIP is already here and the acronym taken for voice, while Video is arriving we need a new VoIP since calling Video over IP VoIP would only add confusion. As such I’m going to call it CIP—for camera over IP….oh, that’s taken too, sort of.
Om Malik has a very insightful, laser honed vision of what the Skype and PeerioBiz integration means.
Packet8 has entered into a co-marketing agreement with Pitney Bowes, the company known for selling postage stamp machines to 840,000 businesses in North America to sell in their Virtual Office business class broadband phone service as well as the Packet8 VideoPhone service to 840,000 PB Direct small business customers. The move comes as Vonage is … Read more
PC World has a very good recap on the state of E911 and the VoIP companies. It is concise, and sounds rather accurate from what I’ve been hearing.
