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I’m a big believer that the mobile carriers are ideally positioned to become VoIP players of significance. They already have customers, billing platforms and put handheld devices in peoples hands. They have both direct and indirect sales agents, and roaming agreements that allow you to take your phone number with you. So, without any real … Read more

In a sector that has to be closely watched, the home video game market that is, a second significant player in the game has tipped their hand about their plan to go VoIP. Nintendo, which caters heavily to the youth target audience has signaled the industry that they will be adding VoIP via a headset … Read more

Keith Bare tipped me of to this story about AOL’s VoIP play which I somehow missed yesterday, but follows up on an earlier post. AOL is clearly able to make a strong run. When you think about it, not only can they offer a typical VoIP like experience, but the ability to integrate with Instant … Read more

Jeff Pulver is so right when he talks about Level3 being an Enzyme that will bind together VoIP in his blog today. I just finsihed an interview with The Boulder Daily Camera’s Matthew Branaugh (I used to live in Boulder back in 1988) about the rise of VoIP in the USA. In my interview I … Read more

Covad is using Cisco. The big benefit is that Cisco offers very rapid replacement, usually within 24 hours when their systems go down. The second big advantage for using Cisco is the ability to have a standard managed network across all of the Covad facilities and to find Cisco qualified engineers. When you look at … Read more

Sonus, which has been in the past suspected of playing the hype game to manipulate the stock market price seems to have cleaned up their past and is now poised to become a real player once again. No one can fault their technology, and given the state of both Lucent and Nortel having had a … Read more

Reports out of the UK are that the Skype Beta for Mac is now out.

Gartner Group, one of the larger research groups in the IT and Telcom space says that despite all the hurdles VoIP shall be adopted by telco users saying 90% of all new corporate telephone systems will be IP-enabled. The hurdles which range from security to corporate in-fighting, will be overcome is the feeling of Gartner … Read more

Level3 which is positioned to be the carrier for resellers of VoIP who don’t want to build their own network has added Charter Communications. One by one the cable operators are all going VoIP.