Yesterday Om Malik and I met for coffee in San Francisco. Surprisingly Om didn’t look like all of Mom’s cooking had taken any effect on him, other than he admitted he could now get back to blogging beyond what he’s been able to do. One of the subjects we talked about at the Starbucks (where … Read more
An InformationWeek article calls into question what VoIP will do to existing ISP’s infrastructure and thinks the upsurge in voice traffic over networks really only built for certain traffic levels will cause a strain.
An Australian has disputed some of the Skype Smartphone claims when it comes to why the new piece of software can’t do thing.
I’ve said a few times since VON that Earthlink will be heading deeper into the VoIP realm. Now Ben Charny over at CNET has the news about their next offer. What’s interesting is that Earthlink is likely migrating away from Vonage.
Om jumps to the defense of a reporter who wrote a candid piece about VoIPing or not. While others seem to jump on the reporter who wrote what I feel is a balanced article and who cited reasons why not, I don’t see what all the noise is about. First, even though I’m an early … Read more
TelcoTrash, which has a nice repository of links to many things VoIP, has a nice recap about the Skype Payphone idea and offers an interesting scenario.
I received a press release from 8 x 8 via PubSub that said Packet8 is going to extend their $99.00 promotional offer for their DV326 VideoPhone. Given that the Vonage Viseon videophone is delayed, this may be the only crap game in town. That said, there are other options like SightSpeed and ineen which uses … Read more
Jeff Pulver always talks about how much he loves Jet Blue. I do too, but my heart goes to Southwest, the airline I fly on average now of about once every ten days or less. While Southwest doesn’t offer free WiFi in the gate areas like Jet Blue does, most, if not all of the … Read more
The always informative Light Reading newsletter has a very detailed story about the RBOC’s working with Vonage and other carriers to solve the E-911 jigsaw puzzle. My guess is other VoIP providers will be joining in soon with their E-911 solutions, not necessarily all tied to the PSAPS of Verizon and SBC.
EuroTelcoblog uber blogger James Enck points out a sweet deal from the land of alcohol filled chocolate. Seems Swisscom has lowered the price on their GPRS (or is it UMTS, EDGE or ???) data network. The price ends up being a boon to users of Skype on PDA’s and Laptops who connect to the SwissComm … Read more
