TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid shares his observations on GoogleVoice and what he things should happen or may happen. The VoIP angle he mentions actually used to exist when GV had the Gizmo option. It does today with GTALK but GTALK on mobiles isn't fully baked in Googles own apps yet either. There are some third paty … Read more
A few days ago T-Mobile in the USA went live with Bobsled, a VoIP service that ties into Facebook accounts for what I like to call Social Calling. Now out of the UK we have Telefonica's operating brand, O2, going live with a service, not that different from their parent's VOYP service offering. I think … Read more
We are over conferenced. This week alone I will be at two, maybe three events and could be at more. TechCrunch Disrupt starts on Monday in San Francisco, CA Demo starts on Monday night in Santa Clara, CA-Attending IT Expo and a medley of co-conferences all start on Tuesday in Austin, TX-Attending/Moderating StartupCamp is Wednesday … 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
A few weeks ago Alteva, a small VoIP operator based in Philadelphia was snapped up by a New York State CLEC which is making acquisitions. Now we see Windtream acquiring Paetec. Add in what happened between Covad and Megapath last year, TelePacific buying TelWest and with Momentum Telecom acquring Comm Partners, needless to say, VoIP companies are … Read more
Over at About.com Nadeem, who covers VoIP ponders the point that with Microsoft buying Skype we may see a Blackberry client from Skype. Well given the tight-fisted way RIM doles out access to the stack that lets you access WiFi, and the fact that some patents are in place around that, not to mention the … 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
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
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
