Michael Powell yesterday told the incumbent carriers, watch out. VoIP is likely to change their world. Haven’t I been saying that here for months, as has Om Malik and Jeff Pulver. The VoIP game is only beginning. Yesterday I used my AT&T CallVantage to organize a conference call. Cost. Free. For conference calls for up … Read more
Today’s New York Times (registration required) provides a recap of what the USA cable companies are saying and doing with VoIP. For some, like Cox, they keep selling an ATM over Sonet based solution. For others, it seems to be hybrid, leveraging their existing cable plant. While the concerns about voice quality may have been … Read more
Less than a week ago I signed up for a trial of AT&T’s new CallVantage service. Based on some initial calling I can only say that people on the other end have no clue I’m using VoIP until I tell them so. The call quality is as close to PSTN as I have heard to … Read more
Wheat Wireless, a company that is placing Wi-Fi on the high seas has added VoIP to its cadre of services. This is a direct threat to Satellite telephony providers as the cost savings is significant.
In an article that is largely driven by Net2Phone, Internet Week draws attention to the expanding role VoIP will play in the country if Vietnam. VoIP will indeed play a role in many countries. Given the developing nations status of Vietnam, VoIP has a chance to possibly make the country the next Singapore. Already the … Read more
A non-exclusive alliance between Cisco and Ericcson is rather interesting, especially when one realizes that a few years back Cisco struke deals with USA based RBOC’s to be integrators with them. The implecations are far reaching, with the biggest being that CISCO can leverage already existing Ericsson softswitch technology and add onto it at both … Read more
In case you’re not getting enough VOIP information and insight here, Techcentralstation.com has launched VOIPCentral, a news and opinion aggregation site. While it’s got a nice format, I much prefer Om Malik’s VoIP Daily. Not only does he link back here from time to time but he gets the stories I miss. His candor and … Read more
8×8 NASDAQ: EGHT), the parent company of Packet8, has regularly been the subject of e-mails to me from some shareholders who feel that their marketing is rather anemic in light of all that Vonage and AT&T are doing. I tended to agree, for they have not really reached out to the media and embraced them … Read more
While this post has nothing to do with VoIP, it does have everything to do with mobility, as in my mind, the two are interrelated. Yesterday morning, I boarded an AMTRAK train north to Santa Barbara from suburban San Diego’s Solana Beach station. The journey, about five hours, is no more in time than driving … Read more
The battle over whether or not VoIP is a service or an application delivered over the Internet is gearing up in the United States’ Congress. eWeek’s article provides a nice backdrop and helps clarify a situation that will only get murkier. Here’s why. First the FCC is really not making decisions around VoIP, despite the … Read more
