Over the next few years I think we'll begin to see the following: 1. Brand erosion in VoIP-Less brands selling to business, consumers 2. Greater consolidation-It's already started with Smoothstone and M5 getting purchased 3. More services from bigger suppliers-Companies like SalesForce, CA, SAP, Oracle will begin pushing out more services that support VoIP providers, … Read more
E911 for emergency calls and VoIP have had a love/hate relatiobship for many years, but as Intenet based calling becomes more and more the norm, and as LTE will bring IP based calling (i.e. VoIP) to the mobile world for real, E911 and the problems associated with it will come to the forefront more and … 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
Years ago, voice on the net visionary, Jeff Pulver created FreeWorldDialup, a service that gave users "free" SIP account to make calls on net to other SIP users. It helped spawn a very active community, simplified how people could get online, and in many ways paved the way for what is now Skype-minus SIP. Now, … Read more
