ZDNet has an interesting article on VoIP Spam. When you think about it, if clients can be made to check your voicemail more easily for VoIP services like VMRover how hard is it to do what ZD reports. If the FCC and other legislative bodies don’t extend the Do Not Call list concept to VoIP … Read more
In what is more editorial than commentary, CNET goes into depth asking more questions than providing answers of the whole FCC CALEA issue. My view is all the legit carriers will be CALEA compliant. VONAGE has stated that over and over again. I think AT&T has also. I really don’t see what the fuss is … Read more
Dialpad has been a VoIP player for many years and has offered service to thousands of PC users as well as calling card customers. They have a hybrid h.323 and SIP platform. Back in 2001 they announced a relationship with Level3 . Now it seems they are offering reduced rates to call Europe. How much … Read more
Verizon seems to be a follower, not a leader in my book. First the come out with a “me too” VoIP product called VoiceWing and now they are taking the same path with unified messaging with the name IOBI, which at least is a more original name. The service, which on paper resembles Webley, is … Read more
Keith Bare reported that Packet 8 has added virtual numbers. That’s great for people with dual residences or for businesses that want to establish a presence in multiple markets. I’ve trialed Packet8 and their new video phone. I love the videophone, but the only people I know who have it are with Packet8. The quality … Read more
Viper Networks has opened a combined show and telco location near John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA. The location is strategic. Not only is it near a major air transit hub, it is also near many of the Southern California hardware manufacturers in the WiFi and Router space, plus Gateway/eMachines. Given the need for … Read more
Michael Desmond, a long time technology reporter and author spent over two hours with me by phone last month talking about VoIP. His story, in the September issue of PC World Magazine is now available for reading. Desmond did a very credible job in researching the story, and asked lots of very good questions, much … Read more
PC Magazine has a very exhaustive story on VoIP and compares AT&T’s CallVantage, VoicePulse and Vonage, giving the edge to VoicePulse. I’ve been trying out VoicePulse and am actually rather impressed with the service. First like Packet8 and now Skype, VoicePulse is using Level3’s network. That’s one of the reasons for their call quality which … Read more
MCI is making noise about their 911 service. I fully expect the rest of the next gen carriers to have something similar very quickly, and view this as a positioning or posturing announcement. It is August, and news is slow these days.
While VoIP is upsetting the telephone industry in the USA and elsewhere, in Latin America, the governments are doing all they can to stop it dead in its tracks, striving to keep the long time incumbents operating without being impacted. But, if there is a will, there is a way technology will win out. So … Read more
