Image by lazytom via Flickr It seems in Germany some of the ICE trains also have WiFi too. Just like the Acela's on the east coast here in the USA and a few of the Pacific Surfliner trains that run along the California coast between San Diego and Santa Barbara. Having used these in the … Read more
One of the biggest issues I've seen over the years with voice services is codec mismatches. Not only do they impact how things sound, often times with conference calls they just make the calls sound odd and magnified by the effects of landline, VoIP lines and mobile networks not all speaking the same way to … Read more
Image via Wikipedia U.S. mobile operator Metro PCS, which was first out with LTE, will deploy VoLTE (Voice over Long Term Evolution) reports Kevin Fritchard of Connected Planet. The public acknowledgement that the new, next generation of cellular voice will be VoIP is in many ways refreshing. For years telecom companies have been shying away … Read more
Image by wwphotos via Flickr Apple’s timing in launching unlocked iPhones here in the USA is just in time–for summer, and the heavy summer international travel season. Reports are the Apple online store now is selling them. I’ve owned a legally unlocked iPhone 4 since last December, and used it heavily since purchasing it at … Read more
Image via Wikipedia At the start of the past week my community suffered a black out for about three hours. Right in the middle of the work day, and for me, right in the middle of a conference call. A quick check with a few neighbord and I knew it wasn't just a few houses. … Read more
Dean Bubley and Martin Geddes are Masters when it comes to interpreting what's what in voice and what's next in telecom. Now they're taking their show on the road with a series of "master classes" that start up in San Francisco the end of June. Dubbed "Future of Voice" the first three master classes will … Read more
Image by jdlasica via Flickr The GigaOm crew have come up with their to 50 cloud innovators. The list, that was published this morning gives a nice overview of who the players are. Since I grew up in sports, the line "you can't tell the players without a scorecard" is rather apropos here, because almost … Read more
Image via Wikipedia My pal in London, Dean Bubley, is so insightful. Between he and Martin Geddes, when I'm over in London, the two are the master class leaders in delivering insight, perspective and opinion, or what I tend to call IPO in the realm of socialized media (i.e. using a blog, or other online … Read more
Telecom Law Monitor, from regulatory law firm Kelley Drye tells us that the FCC is telling VoIP and Broadband service providers to report outages or pay the fines. Basically this means that service providers are more and more being told to play on a level playing field with no distinction between legacy and next generation. … Read more
For years roaming on WiFi was Boingo and everybody else. And with everybody else the back office issues were immense. And for mobile operators who have a back office solution for mobile voice and data roaming there already were solutions that made things like authentication and settlement easy. Well not so for WiFi. That's why … Read more
