Covad which likes to educate via the white paper route has made their views public on the subject of regulation of VoIP. What they are really doing though is called lead generation in marketing speak. Get people to download in exchange for a “consultation” on how VoIP can be better for the customer. The marketer … Read more
In a perfectly timed move executed in consort with their Olympics advertising campaign, AT&T has rolled out three simultaneous initiatives that will likely spur the uptake of CallVantage, their VoIP telephony service aimed at broadband customers. First they have expanded to another 21 markets, giving them what is likely the widest reach of any next … Read more
USA Today has a story on AT&T striking marketing agreements to foster faster adoptions of CallVantage with five of the most important cable companies in the USA. Only Cablevision, the metro New York conglomerate currently is sitting on the sidelines. The move by AT&T may be even more significant when one looks beyond the words, … Read more
First we’ve blogged reports about service outages @ Vonage. Now, Stuart Henshall picks on their customer service or lack of. My experience with Vonage has been hit or miss. For example in December I wrote up my experience of using Vonage as a travel accessory and sent it to them via their web site/newsletter. End … Read more
I have been saying for a while that MCI is a sleeping giant about to wake up one day and be a major player in the B2B and Consumer VoIP market. This move only foreshadows that end result.
Vonage is looking to add something different…check out Tom Keating.
I think this is the tip of the iceberg in VoIP stories related to cable companies. VoIP is a wonderful way for the the MSO’s to carve into the RBOC’s market share. Given they already have the last mile solved it’s only a matter of time before they make a big push. I’d say it’s … Read more
Skype are masters at building hype. Now they are dripping their software out in the Mac community. Actually, my gut says if Apple was more cooperative and thought to make Skype the defacto voice app, and blended it with iSight, that Skype would rapidly clean up the video chat business….but Apple really isn’t about being … Read more
Red Herring, which is about to go weekly and hard copy has a story about VoIP focusing on the Packet8 PicturePhone, something we’ve been telling you about for a while.
Just read Om…great stuff…wishI said it. Glad he did….but candidly, Vonage needs a big bucks investor and not of the VC kind. The best is an exit to a big Telco…MCI, Verizon and SBC lead my list.
