All Boarded Up

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This is a bit off topic but I can see how a WiFi phone and this service could work in many scenarios. If retailers nearby Starbucks started to work with T-Mobile they could make all kinds of offers to the sippers who are surfing. If services that offered ordering by phone posted their offers this … Read more

Office Depot Gets The Vantage

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Office Depot, a chain of retail office supply and home office electronics stores, has signed an agreement with AT&T’s CallVantage to sell the product in stores. I love Office Depot because their sales team on the floor are very smart, they have great attitudes and care that you are there. I’ve made them my office … Read more

Korea Getting VoIP

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Four companies have been approved in South Korea to offer VoIP. Already blessed with some of the fastest broadband and wireless broadband in the world, and Hanaro, one of the more early deployers of SIP in Asia, look for rapid consumer and business uptake. What I find interesting in the story is that the regulators … Read more

Cablevision Growing VoIP

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With Cablevision now boasting over 72,000 Internet phone users one has to ask if Vonage’s Jeff Citron is starting to worry. One has to figure that with the cable companies working with the likes of AT&T and Level3 for network and transport services, plus peering, that this is a significant shift in where telephony’s share … Read more

Linksys In VoIP

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If it isn’t obvious by now, the line of Linksys VoIP products are popping up everywhere from three main carriers, AT&T’s CallVantage, Verizon VoiceWing and Vonage. Here’s a list, supplied by Linksys, of which products are available out of the box for the carriers. Phone Adapter with 2 Phone Ports      PAP2      … Read more

Skype Goes Cordless

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Skype and Siemens are using a USB adapter to connect Siemens wireless DECT phones to PC’s so users of them can make calls over Skype. Skype is clearly making money but not in traditional ways. Licensing is one of the routes they are going.

Vonage Gets FCC Free Pass

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USA Today is reporting that Vonage got a "free pass" on regulation by states from the FCC. The question is, does this apply to everyone else in the VoIP game? Om has some very nice things to say about Michael Powell and has done his usual super fine job of getting to the meat of … Read more

Skype API Now Out

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The long rumoured SKYPE API has been announced. My gut says a cottage industry of Skype add ons will be springing up, much like what has occured around eBay. Already I hear of VoiceMail service in place (I think I signed up for a trial) and other advanced features. The key here is who makes … Read more