The New York Times has a story in their Sunday edition about VoIP. My guess is the number of 300,000 users in the USA is likely lower than reality. Vonage is over 200,000 already according to their announced figures, and with all the others being so aggressive, such as Packet8 and AT&T Call Vantage, I … Read more
Well after some doing, I finally got the XyZEL Prestige 2000 WiFi SIP handset working. About the size of a candy bar style cell phone, I could not get it to work with either the Microsoft 802.11g or Netgear Travel router (bummer) as it could not pick up the DHCP, so I went out and … Read more
Skype, which is in the news with their carrier deals, has quietly announced a new version which fixes some bugs and adds some new features like file transfer, file uploading and more. As I read this, one has to really question the genius management at AOL/Time Warner a few years back. They basically could have … Read more
Read the last line. Classic. Much of the rest of the story is already known or expressed here and elsewhere, like GigaOm by Om Malik.
Engadget has a report about the new Vonage WiFi phone and a report the next generation of the Treo Handspring, the 610, will be a WiFi ready phone for Vonage. This circles back to the Vonage relationship with Texas Instruments and other chip manufacturers announced earlier.
I’ll be playing around with the Packet8 VideoPhone next week, as I’ve had a house guest from Rome and she’s much more fun to spend time with than VideoPhones, but it looks like Packet8 has some competition according to a post on Engadget.
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
