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Om Malik has revived his VoIPDaily, one of may favorite blogs on tech.

A Reuters report out of Amsterdam shows the adoption of broadband and cell phone is leading to the reduction of landlines. In the trendy Euro style of life, I see this as a telescope view of what will happen all over the world.

Probe Financial, an off shoot of one of the most respected telecommunications research and analyst groups, Probe Research, has issued a very positive statement about the cable companies joining up with AT&T to propel the adoption of VoIP. Probe has been on the mark before about AT&T as their groundbreaking report many years back authored … Read more

In what is clearly another step in a true channel marketing strategy, AT&T today announced their CallVantage service being available through online e-tail giant, Amazon.com. When you look at the series of announcements AT&T has made in the past two weeks that are all around access to CallVantage via sales and distribution, you can clearly … Read more

Broadvox, one of the companies targeting the SOHO and Enterprise voice market, is deploying more switching centers in hopes to grow their business. The deployment of Telica Softswitches which provide the brains of the VoIP network means BroadVox will be able to provide MSO, cable operators, large ISPs and CLECs with “a complete telephone system … Read more

SPRINT, which built the business years ago following AT&T and then offering lower prices ala MCI has continued to follow the playbook of going where AT&T has gone first, this time in striking a deal with cable company Mediacom. The deal which appears to provide access to the Mediacom customers and the ability for them … Read more

Vonage, which remains privately held, announced they raised $105 million dollars in venture capital dollars today. The money will be used to fuel global expansion and the development of new technology. You can likely expect to see more marketing and advertising from the company as well as continued work with third party developers. The recent … Read more

The beauty of blogs is you don’t have to do it all to tell everyone about a great deal. In this case Mr. Blog did. Buy a Linksys SIP phone adapter or the new VoIP enabled router and activate Vonage service, save $50.00. Basically you with the rebate new customers can activate for under $30.00

VoIP is already seeing consolidation according to a news account. One has to remember that for years in Asia h.323 based Internet Telephony has been used. With the wider adoption of VoIP globally and now the inroads being made by SIP this type of consolidation had to occur as the big players began to enter … Read more

San Jose Mercury News’ Dan Gillmor has a insightful review of FCC Michael Powell and his impact on technology, the Internet and VoIP.