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 has a first person interview with the founder of Skype. 1.3 million Pocket PC users is the interesting stat in my book.
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
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
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
One of my favorite bloggers who is also a journalist, Mark Evans asks How Good Does VOIP Have to Be? He’s come to the same conclusion that I have. Most of what we are seeing in the way of VoIP is PSTN replacement, not breakthrough technology that changes how we use the phone.
EuroTelcoblog touts Skype via Riaan.
I saw a very big and ugly red display of Packet 8 at my local CompUSA today. With their ugly packaging I don’t who would grab for it. A few meters down the aisles was the more attractive Linksys/ATT CallVantage display. Why was I not surprised that the sales floor staff didn’t know the difference … Read more
VoIP and ENUM wrongly rips XTEN. I’m not sure what Richard heard, but the call looked and sounded rather good at the VON. Perhaps it was on Richard’s end with the IETF crowd.
Sometime this week I’ll be flying with my fiance over to France for a Post Telecom mania month for my passion and other writing habit. Wine. I’ll also do some work too… While I’m away I’ll blog some, but not as much as you normally see. At some point the batteries need to be recharged and … Read more
