Cox Cable, one of the countries largest cable operators will be adding true VoIP real soon according to a report in America’s Network today. My guess is Cox will upgrade markets that have had their digital telelphony service longest, or go into markets where they don’t have any telephony services. Why? It’s called amortization of … Read more
In what is rapidly becoming a soap opera between start up and PCCW a retort to PCCW’s FUD is now out. City Telecom is the leading protagonist here, and they along with Hong Kong Broadband have made great inroads with VoIP via ADSL and Fibre to the home/office. It seems PCCW is kind of worried. … Read more
ABI Research tells us what we already know and gives support to the way the UK’s Ofcom is working towards making VoIP easier and more understood. What I do agree with is the fact that VoIP is out of the garage and into the executive suite. It’s there and with lots of reliability, yet I … Read more
Ken Rutkowski, who I co-host the World Technology Round Up on KenRadio is in Amsterdam for a content on the net conference. He called me using Skype Out. The call quality was rather good. Then we went Skype to Skype. The quality was better and I was on a mic, not the Clarisys handset I … Read more
Om has a post that asks a question. Keith provides some ammo. I provide an answer. Teamwork in the blog world. Here’s what I had to say over on Voipdaily.com, Om’s VoIP site: According to Kelly Larabee, Skype’s publicist, she told me on Thursday that out of the 20 some million downloads, that 10 million … Read more
Mr. Blog has a nice post that Telepocalypse found. Months back Michael Robertson of SipPhone was trying to venture into this arena and I suspect alternative numbering systems will be coming forth rather soon. The market is too ripe for a numbering plan that takes advantage of SIP and IPV6 while not making old phone … Read more
The ultra VoIPster Keith Bare of VoIPNuke has a post about IBM and their moving of the voice over to VoIP. His sources indicate that Level3 will be the winner here, yet at the same time IBM is helping QWEST engineer their VoIP platform using Sonus and Sylantro equipment. If you recall a few years … Read more
I don’t have full Fortune access but for those that do, there is a story about Vonage in the online, and likely hard copy edition.
Seems I’m not the only one that is having an issue with the Pocket PC and Skype. A report out of InfoWorld says others are too.
Jonathan Greene who blogs on many things digital has a viewpoint on his blog about Skype complainers. For the record Jonathan and I had a Skype call last night, first on my laptop with a Labtec mic, then on the Pocket PC using Skype 1.0. The quality on both was fine, with the laptop near … Read more
