Turf battles between the DEA, FBI, CIA, NSA, the old BATF, Customs, Coast Guard and local law enforcement have been around for years. It’s the old, whose got a bigger pair of B&^*S, but now on the surface, an even bigger battle is brewing. It’s between the FCC and both the FBI and the DEA … Read more
One has to read between the lines and see who is being quoted to really seperate the wheat from the chaff. As more stories pour out about VoIP it is important to realize that the analysts at companies like Yankee Group and IDC are paid by the telcos and the next gen carriers, though not … Read more
In the era of the dot.com explosion, announcements like this were commonplace for start-up companies as a way of touting their value. More established and traditional players didn’t make announcements like these, citing the disclosure regulations, or claiming they were non-material to their earnings. Well it looks like in the VoIP era, all that is … Read more
Jeff Pulver reports in his blog that interconnects between users of Free World Dial Up and both Vonage and Packet 8 are just about to happen. This means with the tap of a few buttons on a PC or PDA users of the free service, who want to reach their friends using the pay VoIP … Read more
Well, the local efforts are really beginning. Each week brings more news about CONSUMERS fighting and switching to VoIP. This time, it’s the the Fort Worth Telegram telling the story, and given a nice plug to 8X8 Packet 8 service. For Vonage, Packet8 and any other player in the game now, its a war of … Read more
The University of Pennasylvania’s Wharton School’s Knowledge@Wharton has an interesting article about VoIP that was picked up by CNET’s News.com. While it rehashes a lot of what’s already out on the web about the subject it does peg VoIP adoption largely to broadband. While this is one way to look at it, what most people … Read more
Video is the next frontier with Voice over IP. When you think about it, we’ve been in an audio based communications medium for over 100 years. Now that people have broadband and with SIP, the ability to layer in real time voice and video, with presence based messaging (IM/Location based) can’t be that far behind. … Read more
A survey announced today from Park and Associates shows that fifty percent of the broadband connected households in the USA are interested in VoIP. Now, that doesn’t mean they will all switch. Some may opt to add the service a way to cut cost. Others may replace the fax line as a test to see … Read more
A company I previously served as an advisor on marketing and public relations, which got caught up in the telecom bubble, the dot.com meltdown, VC squeeze plays and being based in Israel at a time of high tensions sold off their technology today. COMGATES, which had developed one of the best softswitch technologies around was … Read more
Manufacturers of routers and gateways like D-Link have for over two years ago talked about integrating VoIP capability with their Ethernet routers, with the goal of keeping people more connected and providing one less interface in the chain. Last week at CES I saw the Motorola box that Vonage is now peddling, replacing the Cisco … Read more
