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
A story in today’s National Post, the USA Today of Canada, Paul Kedrosky of Financial Post questions the viability of Vonage long term. The key point he brings up is the sleeping giants. The RBOCs which have been either waiting or letting the VoIP world pass them by. He also draws a comparison to @HOME, … Read more
Om Malik found this one. Somehow I missed it. Packet 8 is starting to build momentum. Their service rides on Level 3 and from my trials so far, I’m happy with what the deliver. Andy
The Wall Street Journal has a page one story about the changing face of the telephone industry with some very insightful viewpoints from the two authors. The whole idea of VoIP disrupting the baby bells business by others such as the traditional long distance players (i.e. Sprint, MCI, AT&T), the Cable Companies (Time Warner, Cox, … Read more
VoIPDaily points to Voxilla ( a SIPURA reseller’s blog) and unmasked a secret about the new Linksys VoIP routers. Seems the technology came from SIPURA, not Cisco. Why am I not surprised. Sipura supplies the telephone adaptor to VoicePulse and the service with it has been superior to Vonage who supplied me a Cisco ATA-186. … Read more
