NYT On Demise of Global Crossing

You have to read this if for no other reason for some of the quotes. My favorite is: “I am prepared to look at this case as, with all respect to the people involved, a bunch of crooks getting sued by a bunch of bankers who are too dumb to stop throwing money down the … Read more

Packet8 Goes Retail, Good News For Level3

I was tipped off by Colorado blogger and VoIP Sales Star Keith Bare that Packet8 had gone retail with CompUSA. The move follows Vonage’s move in the same direction a few months back. I’ve evaluated Packet8 and find nothing wrong with what they offer. Their service rides on Level3’s backbone and they offer a great … Read more

Filipino’s Looking At VoIP

The Philippines, one of the heaviest users of SMS my be one step closer to legally receiving VoIP. Certainly, the broadband online crowd would be looking forward to VoIP as right now only congressionally approved carriers can offer voice services there.

California May Terminate PSTN

A report making the rounds in California’s state capitol suggests that Governator Arnold switch to open source and VoIP. In an era where being a good corporate citizen is such an important thing, I don’t get why such outspoken leaders like John Chambers of Cisco, Scott McNealy of Sun, Dr. Irwin Jacobs of Qualcomm, Carly … Read more

Om On Outage

Om Malik’s GigaOm, my favorite blog to read for candid and witty insight that deeply views IT, Telecom and the impact on both society and finances looks at Vonage and says…. I published my thoughts on his comments board, but at the end of the day, Vonage needs to solve this problem.

Wall Street Journal On Take That VoIP and Go

Here’s a story I can relate to in the Wall Street Journal. It’s about taking your VoIP with you, something I think I was one of the first to document and prove last November when I did the daily “World Technology Roundup” from my broadband enabled hotels in Paris and London, a Vonage ATA and … Read more

Vonage Down, What Happened

According to Brooke Schulz, VP, Corporate Communications at Vonage here’s what happened today: “A facility went down that serviced a few areas: Boston, Milwaukee, Greensboro and Pittsburgh. I was told by our engineers it was affecting inbound calls to those areas only. Our website was failed over to another carrier as well. People were getting … Read more

CNET On Port Blocking

CNET has followed up on my post a few weeks back about Port Blocking. My gut says port blocking is a bigger issue than people know, and many chalk it up to their own lack of tech knowledge. Last year Cox Communications blocked Port 25 to combat spam. It really didn’t work, as Cox servers … Read more