The New ZyXel Phone
Engadget has a photo of what should be the new ZyXel WiFi phone. Based on what I saw at Spring VON it still won’t handle authentication on a pay for WiFi network like T-Mobile or Boigo easily.
Level 3 withdraws request for VoIP fee ruling
Level 3 has withdrawn their request for VoIP fee ruling. That means they likely felt they would lose. The last thing they need is to have the ruling go against them at this point in time as it would only accelerate the short sellers and drive down their stock price.
AT&T VoIP In Japan
AT&T is keeping its game going on a global level with VoIP as they have announced a customer win in Japan. As I keep saying, AT&T’s CallVantage is NOT simply a consumer customer play and their goal is farther reaching than Vonage or Packet8 which clearly are both starting in the home market and will … Read more
Cost Per Acquisition For Vonage. What Is It Really?
Recently Vonage founder Jeffrey Citron said something to the affect that “on average, between $150 and $200 per customer. It’s a highly volatile number” when asked about acquisition costs. Based on my calculations previously and that of others, we all fee that is way low. But how does Vonage track those costs? Is it total … Read more
Cringely on VoIP Blocking
In the I, Cringely Column Robert X Cringely who has a real name that I have always promised to keep private, explains some of the possible ways the ISP’s can block ports. I’ve been on the same side as Cringe on this issue and am super concerned he’s not only right, but that carriers are doing … Read more
What The Numbers Mean for AT&T
AT&T had their numbers slip out last week in their filing with the SEC on the proposed merger in a story missed by many that ran in the Newark Star-Ledger. It did not slip by Halepern Capital’s Keith Dalrymple however. On the face Dalrymple says AT&T is behind on their subscribers, through December 31 of … Read more
IDG Interviews Mr. Skype
IDG has a first person interview with the founder of Skype. 1.3 million Pocket PC users is the interesting stat in my book.
Dog Eat Dog Market For VoIP and Cellular
Russell Shaw has a take on the VoIP/Cellular market cannibalization. I’ve always felt that the wirless carriers are ideal players to enter the VoIP game. I continue to think that users, especially consumers want more services from less suppliers. If the cable companies ever lived through the Sprint PCS deal, which they didn’t, they would … Read more
Enterprise VoIP Anyone?
Om has a post that includes comments from Burton Group Analyst Irwin Lazar about Enterprise VoIP and how Microsoft enters the equation. I think that the Enterprise is where the money is. AT&T is clearly headed in that direction. With the SBC merger one has to realize that SBC is already working with Cisco as … Read more
Scam Deliverd By Skype
EuroTelcoblog’s James Enck discovers a flaw in the Skype multi user chat system and waxes on about it. One of the aspects of Skype I see is some type of social networking feature being overlayed with it. The Pulver Communicator already has this type of feature built in but until the type of trust system … Read more