One of the beauties of reading Slashdot.org from time to time is how early you learn about something new. A new non-profit service, E164.org wants to make VoIP capabilities more powerful. While the service seems to be beyond the average consumer’s need, it will spur on all kinds of innvovations. What’s great about it is … Read more
A local Kentucky newspaper columnist picked up on the VoIP story. While it would easy to pick on her calling SIPphone a new service and omitting companies like SKYPE. Firefly, yPhone, VoicePulse, VoiceGlo, Viper and AT&T’s CallVantage to name a few who all launched after SIPphone, I won’t go that far. The reason is the … Read more
AT&T’s CallVantage VoIP service received a very high endorsement from the San Jose Mercurey News’ Mike Langberg today. In the article Langberg did point out a problem related to NAT, which is more than likely an issue that some users of older routers or cable modems could suffer. NAT which stands for Network Address Translation … Read more
Looks like some neat VoIP devices are coming out.
I’m in Chicago on business the next few days and having a blast at my Wayport wireless powered hotel. Why? First the wireless is totally free and 802.11g to boot in all parts of my two room oversized suite at the Wyndham, a chain which has approached things right. Seems they ripped out the STSN … Read more
Vonage keeps making major moves, this time adding WilTel as a partner for additional access to landline termination and a Outlook plug in called Click2Call. Click2Call is a great feature as integration with Outlook only makes life a lot easier.
It looks like some states want to write legislation that will slow down the deployment and acceptance of VoIP. States Righters have been around for as long as states have existed in the Union. The Goevrnment when writing the constitution granted them powers to govern themselves, largely out of the fact that before the Revolutionary … Read more
Skype is claiming two carriers are now signed to enable termination to any phone in the USA. Who they are is anyone’s guess. It could be one of the next gen carriers like Level3 or Global Crossing, or it could be QWEST. All three have lots of dark fiber that needs filling. Or it could … Read more
The interim chairman of the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) wants to regulate VoIP. But, not until Mid-2005. The main issues include many of the same concerns that USA based regulators are considering, quality of service, call location, and privacy as well as carrier guidelines such as what will happen in the event of a power … Read more
Juniper Research has issued a report on the expected growth of VoIP and drawn some conclusions. While most are obvious to those in the VoIP industry (i.e. space) the call for the need for standards and to me, interoperability is the most important. Sure service offerings that are bundled (i.e. phone, email, internet access etc.) … Read more
