A story out of Malaysia encourages hotel operators to offer broadband, and refers to Internet Telephony, aka VoIP. As someone who travels, broadband is a requirement and I prefer a wired room so I can bring along a telephone adapter from one of the companies offering me VoIP. which means I need a router too. … Read more
Jeff Pulver, VoIP God number one, will serve as the Keynote of ISPCON in November. I can’t think of anyone better to educate the ISP’s about VoIP at a time when they all can become part of the equation. The market is at a point where reselling, creating and allowing advanced services and generating accurate … Read more
Taking a page out of the Chinese playbook on how to be a monopoly based economy, India’s telecom regulators have cracked down on VoIP being used in the country illegally actually going as far as arresting some of the operators. One of the companies is Primus Telecommunications India, which may be a sister company of … Read more
From North of the Border (in Canada) blogger Mark Evans calls Vonage on the carpet and carves up their value in light of their recent Series D investment round of $105 million. While everyone is looking at the spend rate of Vonage, Evans does a peer group comparison versus Packet 8’s parent company 8 x … Read more
I should have blogged this a few days ago but somehow I forgot to. Tech Central Station has a great post on why VoIP is clearly different from traditional telephony that goes to support the “hands off” approach of Michael Powell when it comes to the regulation of VoIP. While Tech Central Station is more … Read more
Internet Telephony’s Tom Keating, in his blog, draws attention to a Heartland Institute post about AT&T’s dual strategy of leaving one market and building another. While the Heartland Institute does a decent job at explaining the situation, like most theoretical viewpoints, it lacks an understanding as to why AT&T has to take the dual path … Read more
On Tuesday Vonage made noise about their relationships with Staples and Linksys. In their press release about the Linksys relationship they said: The Linksys Phone Adapter with 2 Phone Ports (PAP2) and the Linksys Broadband Router with 2-Phone Ports (RT31P2) bundled with Vonage phone service offerings are immediately available at select retailers throughout the United … Read more
An Australian company, Multimedia, plans to offer VoIP integrated into their satellite delivered IP network to customers in the Middle East and South Pacific. Can you spell latency? One of the biggest issues with satellite delivered Internet access to date has been latency. If they can solve that problem this could be the start of … Read more
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story about the looming price war in the VoIP sector. I say we’re already there. The price war is between the next generation carriers, the RBOCs in the USA and the cable companies. All kinds of creative bundling deals are making the rounds. Hardware and service. Features. Tie ins. … Read more
Investors Business Daily, the second paper for financial news in the USA behind the Wall Street Journal has a long piece about Vonage and their recent $105 million dollar series D fund raising round. One inaccuracy is the pricing of some of the Vonage competitors. For example, CallVantage is $19.99 a month to start for … Read more
