Cable and Wireless has announced managed VoIP service in the U.K. for the enterprise market. That’s where the real money is. So while a lot of noise is being made everywhere about consumer VoIP deals, the business market has the numbers to make a business of VoIP for carriers.
Here’s a great primer on VoIP for those just waking up.
More and more stories are bubbling in from around the world that VoIP is driving cost savings. This story, from Auckland New Zealand only goes to further that point. With IP Telephony in place outsourced, offshore call centers and customer service costs go way down.
Newsday, the other morning paper in the New York metro area that matters, has a very detailed story and interview with Tom Evslin, the founder of ITXC and now chairman of Teleglobe.
Om Malik, whom I respect as much as any journalist for his unbiased coverage of all things broadband has some nice things to say about my comments on Blogs and Media, as well as VoIP Watch. Thanks Om.
PaidContent.org has a story item about New York’s YES Network creating a broadband delivery model. I have for many years been saying that the telcos are the next cable tv network and if they want to deliver true content over DSL, that sports and movies will lead the way. Imagine VoIP and Sports, plus Sports … Read more
Jeff Pulver, who I have more respect for than anyone in the VoIP space around posted a note today about how Vonage subscribers can call users of Pulver’s Free World Dialup and vice versa. It got me thinking about the softphones I have. One for FWD, another for Vonage. While I have XTEN Pro I … Read more
A major market newspaper called me this week to talk about VoIP. I did the interview and now they want to send a photographer, so hopefully the story runs soon The questions centered largely around my customer experience with VoIP, many of which have been chronicled here and on the “World Technology Roundup” which I … Read more
Cisco’s John Chambers is very positive about VoIP. Given the accumulation of companies and technology which Cisco has been amassing, is that a surprise? In many ways Cisco has all the potential in the world to be a phone company too. With their core router and switching technology, MPLS protocol and owning Linksys, they have … Read more
Irish regulators would like to create a special prefix for VoIP. Sounds like it may make some sense….especially since a VoIP number is portable, while a landline is not.
