The Jeff Pulver Blog: A day in the Blogsphere… has three colleagues, peers and really all the makings of friendly sparring and verbal jousting taking place. Om weighed in with the costs in one of his recent over the weekend blog posts. One thing I know is Om knows numbers and financials of the business side … Read more
The Jeff Pulver Blog: Spring 2005 VON Conference Schedule Update The list of speakers at VON is one of the best I’ve ever seen. With the folks from AOL, ATT and other companies the event looks like it will be dominated by the established companies, but knowing Jeff, the start ups will still be as … Read more
Networking Pipeline | Consumers Are Cool To VoIP: Survey “Who Wants To Buy VoIP?” is the theme of a Forrester Research report on consumer’s intentions when it comes to VoIP. In reading the CMP story, it appears that despite all the money being spent by the top players in VoIP, that the awareness level still … Read more
Last week DeltaThree did a deal with SBC, this week it’s with XO for added network capacity. Now that SBC is merging with AT&T, does SBC need DeltaThree anymore? What do all these deals mean then if their is no traffic…hmmmm..Won’t AT&T’s network work for SBC?
RED HERRING | For whom the Bell tolls features a good perspective from companies in the VoIP space who are not concerned about the AT&T merger with SBC. Andy says–there’s a lot of market out there and the merger means good things. As one void is filled, others are created. Merging two companies the size of … Read more
Over the past few days I’ve been bombarded with questions from emerging VoIP companies wanting to know who the level3 resellers were who got cut off at the knees with the 3Tone termination (pun intended). If you’re one who got left out in the cold, send me an email and I’ll aim you in the … Read more
New Line of Chips Aims to Reduce Power Up to 80 Percent in Mobile Devices – The VoIP Weblog – voip.weblogsinc.com While this is great news, the key is twofold. First if the carriers continue a walled garden approach, VoIP on cellphones will be a challenge for a while. Unless the Home Roam Locator technology … Read more
Skype for Mac OS X and Linux v1.0 Skype broadens their market reach….adding Mac OS X. Now I Skype more easily with OM if he adds this to his Mac….
I meant to blog this earlier. The implication of this on VoIP are many fold. For example, with a VoIP connection over the digital side of the data network many newer applications become available to users on wireless (i.e. cellular) networks. The big key is will the carrier start playing with things like port blocking?
Packet 8 resellers continue to report problems with the network, with calls being dropped and the worst sound quality in their history. Something is up. Another report has two of the top execs from 8×8 visiting someone in Kansas City the last month or so. My guess is that the internal and network issues at … Read more
