I’ve been talking about the need for two things to make VoIP a real competitor to PSTN. QoS and Applications. Well it seems the announcements about VoIP apps are now happening quickly. Infomedia SandCherry Both of these announcement lead one to beleive that the QoS issue is only more needed. Andy Abramson
David Beckemeyer of Toys.org has put together a very nice PowerPoint about VoIP. While it deals mostly with SIP, it provides a very good introductory primer for the uninitiated. It’s worth taking a few minutes to see his handiwork. Stay connected, Andy Abramson
Here’s something which I have never seen before and which makes a lot of sense. By combining VoIP and IM the device helps to define the concept of presence. Hopefully, I’ll be able to check one out soon and provide the details. Imagine getting a call on your cellphone that originates over MSN or Yahoo … Read more
An FBR buy side analyst questions just how major VoIP will be for the cable industry, in this column on TheStreet.com The key to all this is churn. Cable operators have forever been fighting the battle with the satellite companies (Dish Network and Direct TV) here in the USA to retain customers. With Cable Telephony … Read more
Vonage recieved real nice exposure in US News and World Reports this week and writer Mary Kathleen Flynn really got the story right. What’s good about this story is that Flynn got it. She went past the fact that it is about price, and explained the features, and provided breezy, easy to understand analysis of … Read more
As a journalist, (I even have my degree in Journalism from Temple University), I hate seeing stories like the one today in the Akron Beacon-Journal. It reminds me of the line my first mentor, the Wily Old Veteran, Sy Roseman, sarcastically told me when I was 16 and learning the craft of media relations from … Read more
It looks like Utah is looking closely at VoIP. While on the surface a harmless exploration, given Michael Powell’s feelings that VoIP should be unregulated, to see states get involved only will make it harder for the new telcos to emerge easily. What we could end up with, if the states each enact their own … Read more
I actually have held off on writing about Firefly despite having had an account and actually tried it when I first started this blog back in December. The reason I held off is I have been pretty much focusing on SIP as the protocol that I’ve been covering. Rather than being accused of being narrow … Read more
Ted Rogers is the king of cable in Canada. He’s Rupert Murdoch and John Malone all rolled into one, only a tad more controlled. He’s planning to get the cable company into VoIP but has learned from the past. In this Toronto Star article one fact comes through. They know they own the customer already. … Read more
Audio (and video) conferencing will get a huge shot in the arm with VoIP. Earlier in the week Raindance and Level3 made nice and annouced a VoIP based conferencing system. Now, it seems a UK company with expertise is jumping in. Like most conferencing, this one uses an ASP model, and is marketed through the … Read more
