Skype Founder Sounds Off
The Globe and Mail, Toronto’s best newspaper, has a very nice profile with the founder of Skype. Can you say PR in action? I can.
Skype To Offer More
Skype’s founders announced yesterday in Toronto at the VON that they will have two flavors of SKYPE this August. Skype Plus will offer an area code chosen by the user and voice mail. SKYPE OUT will let you call to PSTN or other VoIP phones with a normal phone number. SKYPE is sounding more like … Read more
Business 2.0 On VoIP
Business 2.0 (Subscription required) has a nice profile on both Vonage and AT&T’s CallVantage offering. The last few paragraphs are indeed interesting thoughts about Vonage future. IPO or will they be acquired, that is the question. Their founder, Louis Holder is on the speaking circuit, talking at the Morgan Stanley conference soon. Those types of … Read more
Report Says Voice and WiMax I Say
Voice over data networks, which is the basis of VoIP will grow. Now reports are starting to come out from research houses basically saying as faster and more access to high speed comes along that will drive voice over packet usage. What I like about this recap is how it links together various communication platforms … Read more
Will AT&T Marry CDMA and WiFi with VoIP?
When AT&T Wireless was spun off a few years back by AT&T, the big T did a licensing deal with them for the AT&T name. With the sale of AT&T Wireless to Cingular, the name, not the network still belonged to AT&T, sans wireless. Now AT&T, not more than a few months before the deal … Read more
IBM & Cisco Make The Care
No one ever gets fired for buying IBM or Cisco is an axiom that makes the rounds when smaller less established companies decide to use the either of the two giants. So decisions will now only be easier, and likely more expensive, as the two venerable companies join together to go after the corporate enterprise … Read more
911 and VoIP
Business Week has a story about some of the pitfalls facing VoIP users when it comes to 911 Emergency services. While the issue today is a big deal, I don’t see that it will remain over time as much of a problem. First, if the FCC wants to get into the regulation of VoIP it … Read more
New Player In The Game
Skype has competition. Peerio.com My guess is what their parent company will announce at Supercomm is more than they are letting on.
AT&T Adds More
AT&T added a few more markets. Any wonder why Vonage lowered their pricing? What are companies like Packet8 going to do now? Given their wonderfully underwhelming creative advertising ( check out their ad in this months glossies like PC Mag) with AT&T in the space no one will ever look at companies like that. Vonage … Read more
Vonage Drops Prices, Goes To Radio Shack
Vonage has expanded their ability to distribute VoIP through a relationship announced last week with Radio Shack. But the bigger news is their lower pricing strategy, geared in part to compete with AT&T and others who are making their presence known. Vonage today announced they dropped from $34.99 per month to $29.99 per month. The … Read more