Packet8 VideoPhone Makes Television Debut on Sets of Popular Shows While they are spending money to a product placement agency, that builds awareness, the key question is how will anyone watching know that the service is Packet8?
I’ve often thought of Skype being for VoIP what ICQ was to Instant Messaging. Now I read how Skype beat out ICQ in the deal with Tom Online in China.
I’m hearing some additional rumors about Level3. While I have no inside information, some people close to the company keep whispering that more layoffs are possibly planned and that the cuts will go into the ranks of some Vice Presidents. What is clear is that as a company Level3 has not met its expectations and … Read more
Actiontec’s Internet Phone Wizard connects a regular phone to Skype. This looks like a neat product, and I hope to see one soon.
A great story called Signal Lost is on the MSNBC website. It clearly validates my echoing claims by former work colleagues of Pulver’s at Cantor Fitzgerald who tell stories about his passion well before many others when it comes to VoIP. The story is a great read, especially coming from a general interest publication.
SBC readies Net phone service | CNET News.com I blogged news of the SBC Delta Three deal a day before CNET figured it out. But I’ll give Ben some slack, he did get someone from SBC to say something on the record, and reveal where the SBC VoIP service is being tested. My spies tell … Read more
Light Reading – Networking the Telecom Industry has a report of Sonus landing a deal with Time Warner to supply key infrastructure, like the softswitch that will support the TW VoIP rollout. Clearly if true it signifies that TW wants to use their own network for VoIP management, and is not going to rely on a … Read more
The Jeff Pulver Blog: pulver.Communicator: Download Frequency Accelerating! While Jeff’s application which gives you cross IM platform capabilities and FWD VoIP services is not yet at SKYPE levels, what this does show me is that a lot of people like the idea of a Softphone client. That means good things for companies like XTEN, and … Read more
Cognigen has become another Packet8 Reseller. Hopefully with 100,000 agents Packet8 can get some traction.
The GSM Association Awards 2005 – Nominee Shortlist features Bridgeport Networks, a company I mentioned earlier today. It seems their network convergence gateway has caught the attention of the GSM Association Awards Committee. The gateway converges today’s existing mobile networks with broadband networks such as cable, DSL, etc. And that means a true bridging of the … Read more
