Alcatel, the French telecom giant, has planted its flag on Vietnam. If there is a country to watch for rapid growth in the Southeast Asian market, it’s Vietnam. They have a very industrious workforce, have been planning their Internet policies for at least the last four years, have based the laws to be globally friendly. … Read more
Covad is clearly gearing up for their push to sell the GoBeam service and the announcement about a white paper is the first step to begin generating news coverage. I’ll provide additional commentaryafter digesting the white paper, but here are some thoughts collected about the GoBeam acquisition: 1) When Covad purchased GoBeam, there were reportedly … Read more
Seems the leading provider of Internet service to homes and business in France, Wanadoo would rather have you switch, than fight with the telephone company. They offering an all in one Phone, IP Router and Wireless access point later in the year. Expect to see that from USA carriers at about the same time. Reports … Read more
Cynthia Webb has a really good roundup of media coverage about VoIP on WashingtonPost.com which I found via Yahoo News.
UK ISP Freedom To Surf has released a VoIP service that works with Microsoft’s Windows Messenger (not not MSN Messenger). The version of Windows Messenger works either by making a system call on the SIP stack resident in the Windows XP OS or uses h.323, an older, yet still stable way to make VoIP calls. … Read more
Danny Klein, one of my favorite VoIP analysts with the Yankee Group, is quoted in a press release from his firm about the potential influx of VC funding into VoIP. With all this money out there, you would think that instead of another service provider coming on board, that someone would create some usefull services. … Read more
VoIP via your PocketPC isn’t ready for prime time, according to MercCenter’s Sam Diaz. I’m with Sam on this one, but not for all the same reasons. First, the cost of a PDA is equal or greater than for any cell phone. Second the audio quality on many Pocket PC’s is just brutal. It wasn’t … Read more
In the world of PR, positioning, is everything. Mindshare, as Bill Ryan, of Portola Strategies, likes to call it, is equally important. So once a topic, like VoIP get’s mindshare, because the story is appealing to reporters, you begin to see the affected, afflicted and disenfrnchised strike back. They strike back via a strategy called … Read more
UPDATED–I don’t know what it is with the folks at CNET, but it seems their thoroughness is somewhat lacking these days. The most recent CNET account about VoIP leaves lots of holes and really fails to tell the facts correctly. First, all PVRs are not Tivo’s and thus some, like Reply have broadband access to … Read more
I don’t mean to be nostalgic, and off topic today, but one of my favorite early morning television shows as a kid was “Thunderbirds.” Those puppets that had a show over in the UK that somehow found there way onto USA television in Phildelphia. Well after many years of someone wanting to do a movie, … Read more
