This is truly FUD. Maybe it works in Hong Kong, but it won’t fly here. VoIP causing outages. Okay. An so do routers. Sleeping engineers. Rats chewing up cables. Or just someone pulling the plug out. Does anyone really beleive that this is all PCCW being asleep at the switch and letting competitors out the … Read more
This isn’t VoIP but Good Technologies Goodlink 3.0 showed the XDA 3 from HTC. Reports are Siemens will remarket the XDA 3 if Cingular opts to carry it. Hopefully T-Mobile grabs it. The product, which features WiFi would be a much better Skype or Vonage Softphone platform to work from.
Om Malik on his newly relaunched VoIPDaily has a note about Lingo offering 7 digit dialing. The key is if it recignizes caller ID for call return. That’s a pet peeve I have with many of the VoIP carriers. I can call the long distance caller back, but the local person in my area code, … Read more
Skype is at DemoMobile 2004 in La Jolla today. They passed out a press release in the press room about Skype on the Pocket PC featuring WiFi and SkypeOut so calls can terminate to PSTN. The key is the aspect that Skype Out will be part of the 1.0 release. Add Skype out to a … Read more
A report from the Dell’Oro shows VoIP revenues increasing all along the food chain. Clearly this is just the start of the VoIP explosion as more countries begin to allow it, and more carriers embrace it.
Yak has introduced a VoIP service platform to compete with the likes of Vonage. What I’m most interested is how the price of $19.99 a month seems to be where most of the carriers are landing. I think that’s about right and fully expect to see add-ons down the road being added to the price … Read more
Lots of speculation about WiMax being the dial up killer. Intel is playing big in the game. Add in Cisco and you have a major headache for the switch folks. But first there has to be a standard, then some real deployments.
Smack in the kisser with questions on what I thought was a great interview.
Internet Telephony uber blogger latches onto what IBM is doing with VoIP courtesy of our friend Keith of voipnuke.com. It is no secret IBM will play in the VoIP world. The question is how? In this move IBM is switching providers for voice conferencing from PTEK to adifferent company.
I may be a day late on this but I have to agree on this point. Without standards confusion will rule and that will lead to government regulation. Remember, the government that governs best, governs least. Self regulation is the key and that means standards.
