Skype and Interoperability

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Wouldn’t it be great if someone made Skype interoperable with any or all of the Instant Messaging platforms? I’m hearing reports that someone has. Care to guess who?

Report Says Cable Companies Poised to Win VoIP Battle

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A Jupiter Research report shows that the USA’s cable companies are well poised to win the battle for VoIP customers in the consumer marketplace. This bodes very well for Level3 who has been chipping away at the MSO’s and landing them as customers. It also likely means that the RBOC’s will accelerate their efforts with … Read more

DeltaThree As A Reseller

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DeltaThree provides Verizon’s VoiceWing with the kind of platform that Level3 provides Packet8, but have been out it for a longer period of time. That’s why I’m intrigued in rather positive ways by today’s announcement of an improved reseller platform for the global VoIP market. They are leveraging a platform that can use a softphone, … Read more

VoIP Quality

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Below is part one of a rather unscientific blogging experiment. I’ve recorded short messages using AudioBlog over various VoIP carriers using either my cordless phones (Uniden and Olympia) or the WiFi phones from Pulver Innovations/Zyxel. Later today I’ll do some more using the TA’s from Packet 8, BroadVoice, VoicePulse, etc.

Om On Hosted VoIP

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I was going to blog this too, but Om got the gist down before me. As you know I’ve regulalry said Covad overpaid for GoBeam, an unproven player in the hosted PBX business whose VC’s didn’t even want to use the technology. There’s also CallTower out there with a working business, powered by Cisco hardware. … Read more