The Rise of Transboarder VoIP Players

I’ve posted before on how the Internet knows no borders, and how VoIP will be the catalyst for branded, consumer telephony and data offerings that really propel cross border, read global, brand efforts for the telcos. James Enck in his Eurotelcoblog comments on what is about to happen in Europe. While right now this is … Read more

8×8 @ 25,000 Users?

Depending how one interprets the statement in this story, 8×8 has somewhere between 17,000 and 25,000 or so users. Given how much money is behind them on the public market, and how long they have been at the VoIP game, Vonage has kicked their butt all over the place with an inferior grade of service. … Read more

WiFi Bloging

I’m sitting inside a McDonalds on Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris. They have free WiFi. In theory if i still had Skype or my Xten softphone clients installed I could make phone calls. The price. Free for thirty minutes. If you want more time, you just open another browser window. The three McSurfers are all … Read more

Mr. Blog Pans The VoIP Panel

Mr. Blog who has a very interesting perspective on all things VoIP pans the panel at Web 2.0. Candidly no matter who or what the panel is about, they are hard to do when some of the panelists insist on sticking to the “approved corporate message points.” Where’s the hook like in Vaudville days?

Robertson vs. Citron Redux

In a battle that will have more falls and takedowns than “Rowdy” Roddy Piper vs. Hulk Hogan were ever seen in Wrestlemania, two of the more cunning serial entrapraneurs Michael Robertson and Jeffrey Citron, continue to throw more verbal barbs in each other’s direction than Howard Cosell and Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali). Forget the fact … Read more

Your Next Phone Company?

Roland has a post about how VoIP will be a feature, not a service…For a long time I’ve thought that companies like Cisco and Microsoft will be the phone company of the future, along with AOL, Yahoo and others. Now, I look at ventures like Popular Telephony, SKYPE and others and wonder if it is … Read more

Blogger Gathering In Boston

I’m going to be at VON and if you’re a blogger or media covering the VoIP space lets meet up for drinks and some face to face chat on Tuesday night around 830 PM following the VON. Nothing fancy but a chance to catch up and share what we know in a face to face … Read more