Image via CrunchBase For years those of us who have recognized that bits are bits and voice can be carried over data pipes (i.e. VOIP) have always simply looked at any data connection as a pipe. Give me unfettered access over the Internet and I'll give you a better way to communicate was the basic … Read more
Over the weekend the Telecom Law Monitor, a blog from the telecom practice group of Washington D.C. based Kelly Drye caught my eye when I spied that MagicJack's sister/parent company, YMAX and AT&T were embroiled in a battle over, you guessed it. MONEY. For a long time many observers were trying to figure out just how … Read more
Image by Getty Images via @daylife A new survey out today out from Skype shows that the popularity of remote working – or “teleworking” – is on the rise, and it’s being fueled by the advent of new technologies we’re all using and the perceived benefits that employers are seeing, including higher productivity and employee … Read more
Image by Getty Images via @daylife A new survey out today out from Skype shows that the popularity of remote working – or “teleworking” – is on the rise, and it's being fueled by the advent of new technologies we're all using and the perceived benefits that employers are seeing, including higher productivity and employee retention. That … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Pac-West, one of the emerging mid-tier players in hosted VoIP, and Panasonic announced the certification of two Pananonic SIP phones for deployment on the Pac-West network today. While normally a boring type of news item, when put in conjunction with Pac-Weat being acquired by TelePacific and TelePacific's acquisition of former client Covad … Read more
The phone call is dead. Long live the call. Do you call someone or phone them? Well, that depends. It depends if you’re using a telephone or something else to make the call. Lately in discussions with clients we’ve been moving them all away from the use of the phrase “phone call” and over to … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Vidyo, whose video conferencing technology offers a cloud based solution has added Chungwa Telecom's business group to their growing list of customer wins. Vidyo is on a roll of late and has been cranking out the news of customer wins, new SDK's that work with the tablet world. Their solution works and … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Skype is rumored to be in trials of its business focused Skype Connect service with two Avaya customers and next week at Enterprise Connect there will likely be some noise made by the global telco minutes stealer of an expanded relationship with Avaya. Skype is also hot on the trail to get … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Telappliant has a rather obvious poke at the misunderstanding of the way the mobile world of communications is going. It's no longer about voice. It's about IP based traffic and you don't need to be a genius to figure that out. What that means with the looming worldwide arrival of LTE is … Read more
Image via Wikipedia I like Dean Bubley's quick analysis (with more to come) on Cisco's just released data on mobile data. The reason-he's cutting through the b.s. and calling it as he sees it. As a former DataMonitor analyst in his past, numbers form the basis of all he, and most analysts really do. The … Read more
