Cablevision, one of the USA’s leading cable companies reports they are adding about 3200 new VoIP customers per week and now have over 70,000 customers on the network. While alot of the attention is towards upstarts like VONAGE, with over 100,000 customers, one has to realize that the cable operators continue to pose the biggest … Read more
Level3 has announced its VoIP Technology Alliance Program. For Level3 this is nothing new. For years they have had programs which vendors who have products or services that want the benefit of knowing they can work with Level3’s network and infrastructure its a benefit. For Level3 they get advanced look at whats under the hood … Read more
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, VoIP is not very secure nor is it ready for prime time use by the Federal Government here in the USA. Citing concerns of h.323 vs. SIP and I guess MGCP too, plus concerns about VPN’s and NAT, the NIST folks seem to throw up more … Read more
SKYPE keeps making noise that they will terminate and provide that for what sounds like it will be free, in exchange for selling value added services.
MCI has demonstrated they are going after the business market with their VoIP push that was announced today. So while AT&T is going after consumers aggressively this quarter and likely for the next 8 or more, MCI has decided to go where AT&T has already been, the business market. But this time, with a twist. … Read more
The Assoicated Press today moved a story about Wi-Fi and VoIP. What’s so good about it is the accuracy. Stories like this in the mainstream press only go to move the concept of VoIP wirelessly closer to more people all the time.
Click4Talk has released a web browser and banner ad friendly applet that enables VoIP on a Click and talk basis. While the concept has been around for a few years, Hilton Hotels has used it for a long time, the packaging up of an easy to use interface, the browser and the ability to reach … Read more
Verizon, who I always consider a follower, not the leader–even if they become the giant, has announced a major push into VoIP. They also are pushing higher speed DSL rates in order to compete with the cable companies…oh can you see the price, service and port blocking wars coming down the pike…I can.
For those who care about the technology that makes VoIP work Computerworld has a nice primer.
Viper Networks keeps selling into new markets. The San Diego based VoIP player has a WiFI handset that lets users on Wi-Fi make phone calls over the VIPER VoIP network.
