If VoIP is the killer app for broadband , then we’re living in the dark ages. Voice over the Internet is not new. It has been around for a while. The real killer application for boradband is marketing, or I should say, the proper marketing of the services and applications that can run on broadband. … Read more
According to a recent report it seems YahooBB, the VoIP carrier in Japan keeps growing. They’re now up to 3.6 million customers. I’d say Vonage has a lot of catching up to do.
For Jeff Pulver yesterday was very sweet. He’s clearly drawn first blood over the old line telcos in scoring an FCC victory when it comes to the regulation of VoIP. Based on the ruling, calls which stay on Net like Pulver’s Free World DialUp, are not subject to regulation. But, what will follow from the … Read more
The Baltimore Sun has a very positive story about VoIP. While much of it is rehashing, it does reveal how the people selling VoIP are going about doing it and where some of the business can be found, and why.
The UK’s Continuity Central survey on VoIP continues to show that business leaders are uncertain of the risks associated with VoIP. If you have yet to share your opinion, now’s the time.
Of all the news out in the last day or so, and as I reported on during yesterday’s KenRadio’s World Technology RoundUp it seems explaining just what VoIP is, seems to be the first step in figuring out how to regulate and tax the next generation of telephony. If you want to hear the commentary … Read more
Fortune Technology Editor Daniel Roth has really captured the essence of SKYPE in a recent article that ran late in January. While you may need to register or be a Fortune subscriber, the general thought I have is that there is much more to SKYPE than a free voice chat coming. What we don’t know … Read more
Covad, one of the original CLEC’s that has had its ups and downs throughout its history, due largely to the efforts of the telcos to make their life miserable, has announced plans to roll out VoIP services by the end of 2004. What this means is all customer currently on Covad’s DSL network will be … Read more
The BBC Magazine has an interesting discussion story about VoIP and how it is changing communications. By recognizing that the paradigm has changed from dial, talk, hang up, it is showing that how voice communciation is changing. Free services like Skype, SipPhone, Firefly all now mean that instead of typing and chatting via an IM … Read more
I always chuckle when the consumer press writes about what we in the early adopter world know is already fact as if it’s news. But, when an article gets it all correct it’s worth at least recognizing. Today’s piece in the San Francisco Chronicle gave a very accurate perspective on the state of VoIP and … Read more
