James Enck in Eurotelcoblog has some keen insight about United Global Comunications launching in the Netherlands. If any country is becoming the wild west when it comes to telecom, its the Netherlands. The ability for businesses and consumers to find non KPN telephony, both wired and wireless is insane there. MVNO’s are sprouting up and … Read more
Tom Keating has a lot of the facts about the sale to Cisco of one of the SIP space’s most significant players.
Om has a post about Kagoor getting more moolah from the VC community. They are one of the dot com/telecom meltdown suvivors. As Om points out their business is in Session Border Controllers. He says ‘Session Border Controls are needed for security, interoperability, service assurance, regulatory compliance and management of VoIP networks’ and I think … Read more
SipThat has more details about the new Eyebeam video SIP phone software. With SKYPE indicating that Video is on the roadmap for them XTEN is taking an early move in the space that is currently really only filled by SightSpeed at this point with a product that doesn’t VoIP, this is clearly a market that … Read more
First it was Skype, now it’s San Diego’s Viper Networks. Take a gander. Viper has a good story, the question is, who is using the service and how good is it? I like the idea that they want to be the player in the WiFi VoIP market. Their strategy is though rather unclear, other than … Read more
Skype is on a roll with rumours and announcements, with the latest being an account they will have a client for the Palm OS. So while that’s good for Tungsten users, Treo users as far as I know still don’t have Wi-Fi card usage ability. And the Treo is the best and most Swiss Army … Read more
I think Skype is teething. PC World reports some issues with the new Skype 1.0 for the Pocket PC. Given my trial of the .98 beta worked well I think the bugs in the new version will be worked out.
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
