IBD On VON

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Investor’s Business Daily is another media outlet ringing in with advance coverage of VON. I think this year’s spring VON will be very much an announcement driven show, with some insight from AOL, VONAGE and the FCC being the hot sessions. Those and of course my Blogger Panel on Wednesday !

On Outages

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Before yesterday’s post, on Friday Om got Vonage to say it was a software glitch. Last summer Om referred to a Vonage outage where the company cited that Global Crossing was the culprit. I recall getting the same comment from Vonage PR and posting on it too. Outages are nothing new but it’s funny to … Read more

Yesterday Vonage, Today Lingo…Who’s Next?

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Yesterday Vonage had an outage but today it seems Lingo, the VoIP service from Primus is having it’s own bad day, making the Vonage outage seem slight in comparison. A review of a thread on DSL Reports shows many unhappy customers.

While I’m not opposed to the idea it may be a coincidence, I notice that many times the outages that seem to occur with one carrier almost identically occurs the next day or so with another carrier. That makes me wonder if there is anything inside their NOC’s (i.e. open source software, commercial software) that is similar, and when that piece of software is updated if the everyone is affected as they update…

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Vonage Down But Not Out

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LightReading reports on a Vonage outing on Friday. This is one their customers worst fears. The network went down and so did the Vonage web site. My guess is they are having scaling issues as well as a NOC related problem. Coming the week before VON is the wrong time for it to happen, as … Read more

Telco censured for blocking VoIP By FCC

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Telco censured for blocking VoIP – and despite all the rumblings that it was one of the Regional Bells, the facts prove otherwise. In my offline discussions with reporters and publicity directors for various VoIP related companies I never was convinced it was one of the big guys, simply because they would have too much … Read more

Who Will Win The Home IP Phone Market

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Doug Mohney of VoN Magazine has a great summary of the residential IP phone market. In addition to the companies he listed that are the likely candidates to sell lots of phones, there are many rising stars in Asia who will also find ways to put new brands on the shelves of retailers and in … Read more

Internet Week > Vonage’s Citron Says VoIP Blocking Is ‘Censorship’ > Vonage’s Citron Says VoIP Blocking Is ‘Censorship’ > March 2, 2005

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Internet Week > Vonage’s Citron Says VoIP Blocking Is ‘Censorship’ > Vonage’s Citron Says VoIP Blocking Is ‘Censorship’ > March 2, 2005 A great story by Paul who has been on this Port Blocking issue affecting Vonage sheds more light on the matter. That said, I think an ISP blocking a person’s use of VoIP goes … Read more

Skype and WiFi for Free Calls

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Today’s announcement about Skype and WiFi seems to be one more supporting effort by companies that want to compete with the mobile/cellular carriers. EuroTelcoblog‘s James Enck has some interesting views on Skype as always. In many ways the skype Broadreach announcement is no different than Boingo going with TelSym, as both are non standard. I … Read more