CNET’s Ben Charney, who I consider a very good writer, must be getting lots of information from SBC and Verizon’s PR team for his story about AT&T’s pull out takes a very interesting slant, and attempts to derail AT&T’s CallVantage. He asserts that bundling is the future, and that’s SBC’s big push these days. One … Read more
A report in the Rocky Mountain News claims Skype has 400,000 simultaneous users. Given they also claim 8 million downloads, that’s a five percent usage factor and likely means somewhere between 1 and 2 million of the people who downloaded the free P2P telephony service are really using it. That’s a SWAG on my part. … Read more
Skype announced four new partners today for SkypeOut and confirmed what Andy Abramson’s VoIPWatch said weeks back, that Level3 would be one of the carriers working with them. Well, let’s compare Old School Verizon to New School Skype. DeltaThree or Level3 and three more strong partners. Hmmmm…who was smarter. I’d say Skype wins….so do Teleglobe, … Read more
Word has leaked out via Boardwatch that Verizon chose DeltaThree to do the integration and network related work for their VoIP service, which they are calling VoiceWing. I guess they came up with that name, by looking down the hall to the wing of their office. Either that, or they were thinking the company was … Read more
It seems everyone looks to the Andy Man, for insight these days on the subject of VoIP. This time it’s PC World that linked back to this blog and had me comment, by phone, on yesterday’s Verizon announcement. The quote, which was as kind as I dared to be towards Verizon, was mild. In thinking … Read more
My co-host on the KenRadio World Technology RoundUp, Ken Rutkowski called tonight to tell me he’s having problems with his AT&T CallVantage box, and that lately his wireless router has been having a problem. I’ve noticed the same thing, and while he’s on Comcast and I’m on Cox, I’ve also heard of issues with Adelphia. … Read more
A very witty and somewhat easy read story about VoIP is in the Metro paper in Silicon Valley. And you gotta love the signature line too….read on.
Sprint Canada wants to challenge Primus and Vonage, and has begun a push to grab some market share early in the game. While most companies push price as the main driver, Sprint Canada has taken the tact that you can take the phone number with you. For Snowbirds from Quebec and Montreal who migrate to … Read more
As a writer, I understand deadlines, and really, I like Ben Charney and his coverage, but when it comes to VoIP I wish he’d just ask the experts, like me or Jeff Pulver, maybe Om Malik or Ted Shelton, even if we don’t get quoted, he’d get more accurate facts than from PR people from … Read more
The AT&T decision to withdrawl from local markets will not affect the VoIP product. If anything, it will help because it creates a single product focus for the company. AT&T Corp., is still the nation’s largest long-distance company, said in the announcement today also said that it would stop seeking new customers for its traditional … Read more
