VOIP

By Andy Abramson What also interesting is that the tax is going to include VoIP services, a path we've seen before here in California. How this impacts Skype will be interesting, as they continue to contend they're not a VoIP service, while still failing the duck test.

By Andy Abramson This is a huge step forward as the business market end user which needs connectivity now can get connectivity in more places, where T-Mobile's footprint doesn't go. With Boingo, as with WiFi of your own or within the enterprise or campus, means you can get T-Mobile coverage higher up or far...

By Andy Abramson Erik Lagerway thinks VoIP over 3G is a when, not an if on the iPhone up in Canada. This is of course not going to happen until Apple updates their developer's Terms and Conditions. Right now Apple's T's & C's that the iPhone developers are working under are not yet written to enable the appl...

By Andy Abramson Rebtel provides user a valuable service. Cheap calls. But it isn't VoIP. Now it's available in the Apple iPhone App Store. Basically what the new app does is call set up. This is not really different than GoogleVoice's ability to do the same thing, other than it's in the App Store.

By Andy Abramson In-Stat seems to think so. In what has become the flavor of the year, and with good reason, over at In-Stat, their coverage of the Mobile VoIP market continues to reflect what the market looks like. This time they have laid out what the impact will be to the carriers. With LTE and WiMax coming ali...

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By Andy Abramson Om gives the N900 (something I have on order from Amazon) a 6 out of 10. That's barely a passing grade. Granted he reviewed pre-release software, but what I like about it is the "optimized for the T-Mobile network" on which I currently run an Android based MyTouch3 from T-Mobile. Hopefully, by...

By Andy Abramson Now lets look at who else this is good for. Companies with rich understanding of APIs like Voxygen and Thomas Howe. Voxex, Cloudvox, Twilio, Broadsoft, etc. The list goes on and on. What's more all the current SIP customers of CallCentric, Inphonex and other Internet Telephony Service Provi...

By Andy Abramson The peering means if Skype goes with Gizmo as it's SIP backend is that calls to and from GoogleVoice are FREE and the stay on-net, without ever touching the PSTN. Unless I'm mistaken though, Gizmo isn't P2P SIP, but just SIP, with of course the media path being P2P like all VOIP, and the Signal...

By Andy Abramson This week I talk about the almost laughable actions of the FCC and Google Voice, the comical but Dangerous memory loss by Microsoft and Danger, a quick peek at what you need to know about Clearwire-whose picture is get more clear and how T-Mobile in the UK now allows VoIP over Mobile Broadba...

By Andy Abramson The decision by Apple came from somewhere else, not Cupertino. For if they didn't want 3G VoIP calling on the iPhone, they wouldn't have had any software in the phones that when they were jailbroken that services that were offering VoIP over WiFi could run on them. So let's not spin a spinner.

By Andy Abramson Om has the news about AT&T "deciding" to open up their 3G networks to apps like Skype and client Truphone. That said, having made calls over 3G in Europe, I wouldn't begin to jump up and down so fast. If you're standing still or walking it will work, but my last attempt (at 220 km/h) in Austri...

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By Andy Abramson I then head up to SFO for more Wireless activity around a few events, back to SAN, before heading from SAN to LAX and over to LHR (London Heathrow) before making my way to AMS for eCOMM Europe. Lots of key players will be there. Who? You are who. So don't miss out on what is the falls most important Vo...

By Andy Abramson Looks like Verizon has pulled the plug on the HUB, their VoIP product. Strike two for them, as they also pretty killed off Voice Wing too. Looks like Verizon has pulled the plug on the HUB, their VoIP product. Strike two for them, as they also pretty killed off Voice Wing too.

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By Andy Abramson Google Voice, like Skype takes advantage of IP packets and networks, that despite being limited in the USA of who provides access, once you're on, tends to be like the wild, wild West. It's a free for all and both Google and Skype know how to navigate packets around it very, very well.

By Andy Abramson Yesterday I made note of Rich Tehrani's video interview from VON with client Mike Oeth at VON which broke the news about the new my.onsip.com web based platform. As they day went on we watched as other veteran observers, who like Rich have been around the VoIP game as long as I have been. We've all...

By Andy Abramson Earlier in the week we learned that Tiscali is launching a Mobile VoIP client named WiPhone. Now we have Kineto, the company with the core technology behind UMA, releasing a Mobile VoIP client that they hope carriers will brand. Some, like Kevin Fritchard are postulating that the Kineto ef...

By Andy Abramson Friend, colleague and client, Alec Saunders and the team at iotum have been steadily adding more and more to the Voice 2.0 conferencing platform, affectionately named Calliflower. His recap gives a very good indication of where things are going, not only with Calliflower, but with confe...

By Andy Abramson Highlights from last week include commentary on Skype and their woes, Tiscali and Mobile VoIP, XConnect and their funding plus some views on Clearwire. Here's the third edition of the VoIPWatch Report: Highlights from last week include commentary on Skype and their woes, Tiscali and Mo...

By Andy Abramson Years back, when Vonage came along VoIP was a hot topic. But dear old VoIP has become so much a part of the calling mainstream--cable companies deploy it. Enterprises use it. All the IM voice services are VoIP, including Skype which even though they don't give a SIP, it's still VoIP. Gamers use V...

By Andy Abramson I'll also be the first to admit, I don't get the hype over Jajah, and never did. One SIP operator who is part of their so called federation privately tells me that they see no traffic from them. No one at Yahoo has stood up and shouted about how much money they've saved by turning their business of...

By Andy Abramson Hot on the heels of the HD Voice Summit in New York this week, it seems that a Moldavia mobile operator is rolling out HD Voice on a Nokia handset, or so reports Telco 2.0. This follows client Voxbone's announcement to embed HD Voice in their network, something that Robert Poe does a very good jo...

By Andy Abramson We're paying roughly $220 dollars for our blazing fast, almost no latency (ping time on speedtest.net 5 milliseconds) this morning which is about the usual, and my test was done via WiFi with at least two other devices connected to the router that were running. For us, it's worth it, but thes...

By Andy Abramson 3) Third-Cisco. It's way too logical. Cisco's ex VP Mike Volpi is part of the Index Ventures group that was in on the buying of Skype from eBay and has very strong relationships at his old company where he was once rumored to being groomed for the top job when John Chambers retires. No one knows th...

By Andy Abramson One is called SecondVoice and the other, from TokTumi is called Line2 which has a very cool application now out in the iPhone App Store. These are both "me too" offerings, and compared to the never achieved success of TalkPlus, nothing but features, not companies.

By Andy Abramson Former YAHOO Senior VP Brad Garlinghouse has reemerged and will be leading AOL's Silicon Valley operations, with the title ofPresident of Internet and Mobile Communications and reporting directly to Tim Armstrong, a position he's very well qualified for.

By Andy Abramson I've decided to start to create a short podcast about VoIP. As we move away from text and into talk, this will be a quick way to get the news out. Please let me know what you think. Topics discussed include: An IT Expo Recap Upcoming Conferences-Mobilize, HD Summit, Demo and VON The MiFi and Wirel...

By Andy Abramson Over the past few weeks Robert Poe, a veteran writer and regular contributor to various web sites and publications that covered VoIP and voice communications has been working on a new VoIP blog. It's named Voice Evolution and is now up and running.

By Andy Abramson Toshiba's eBook reader will also handle VoIP. This makes your book reader also your phone. This, like the Amazon Kindle, is really another example of evidence of the rise of the purpose built devices, something I highlighted here almost two years ago after attending a Telco 2.0 event during...

By Andy Abramson That would be the surface move. But the real battle is about Balkinization of Wireless. Here you have CDMA players Verizon and Sprint, each advancing in the 4G front and each saying we see new forms of technology that will leapfrog the GSM technology over time. Verizon Wireless, which has bee...

By Andy Abramson Yahoo has a lot of telephony technology, including Dialpad, which they bought a few years ago. Internationally their IM platform carries a lot of voice ala Skype and it does video (not very well but that could be fixed). With AT&T mothballing CallVantage sometime this year, either the...

By Andy Abramson I don't know when my service ends, but the letters all say sometime in 2009. I'm trying to explore Uverse but there are some issues, most around alarm monitoring and having the telephone wires routed to my new data closet. We'll see how far that goes. Given I have a T1 from Covad and rock solid cab...

By Andy Abramson The hard wire network was also tuned up by my friends Chris McKewon and Steven Fairchild and their team at XCeptional Networks. These are the guys whose crews are masters at hotel broadband, like the Hotel 1000 in Seattle and the Intercontinental in Boston. We're talking EXPERTS in network...

By Andy Abramson Last night Microsoft Response Point hosted a dinner with some customers of theirs and a group of bloggers. It game me a chance to catch up with Erik Lagerway who has become a Response Point convert. Eric was for years Mr. Anti-Microsoft, but his newest venture is wrapped all around the newest o...

By Andy Abramson Marrying these kinds of services together is the era we're entering. It's not about VoIP or SIP or Skype, its about the experience, and that experience is going to be three types. Business, social and personal. Buzzspeak is VoIP, SIP, Skype.

By Andy Abramson VoIP Skype via a Phillips Desk Phone Skype Truphone on Nokias, iPhone and iPod Touch UK Skype VoIP User Skype Spain USA Skype (3) Mobile Phones USA AT&T iPhone 3G Mobile UK WiFi Access StarBucks Gold WiFi Access DeviceScape logon client Easy WiFi Panasonic with EyeFi WiFi SD Card

By Andy Abramson Well for starters it's all SIP based as usual, providing all kinds of capabilities with that. Users can call any Gizmo5 user, any SIP device or endpoint, 800 numbers, and if they have Gizmo5 credit they can call anyone in the world. You can also receive calls. It needs Flash 9 or better so runs on...

By Andy Abramson Unfortunately, there's likely a few writers and reviewers out there who want a perfect experience all the time. Sadly that won't happen. There are still many hurdles, like bad bandwidth, poor in office connectivity from WiFi or even carrier interference. But, for those who have the right k...

By Andy Abramson It's from Kensington and is the new Buetooth VoIP Internet Phone from Kensington. Now I have yet to try it, so I won't say how good it is, but based on the review and Kensington's track record with other wireless products, this one would seem to be worth taking a gamble on.

By Andy Abramson I have to thank one of my readers who pointed out to me the fact that Aircell is already in the business of making VoIP work in the skies. It seems they are already marketing SIP based phones for the business aviation market selling against others with similar products.

By Andy Abramson By taking this first step, the Dutch cable industry is acknowledging the importance of making sure there's a neutral hub that allows the telephone calls made over one cable MSO to pass to another with all that's necessary to sound good, be completed quickly and to maintain all the functio...

By Andy Abramson From the moment I walked in the door at Juveniles Tim said with his Scottish accent, "Well hello Andy. What brings you to Paris at this time of year." After explaining why I'm here (i.e to be in real time interaction with the Truphone iPhone launch while my house goes through the renovation that...

By Andy Abramson 2) Ditch the "if you leave us it will cost you money." Nothing hurts more than when someone liked you service but for whatever reason chose to cancel. Don't charge them for that. Let them leave on a high note and THANK THEM for having been your customer. Oh, and just try to take your number with you. H...

By Andy Abramson The cable industry is showing that it can really play the "takeaway" game when it comes to telephony in the home based on what I'm reading over at IP Democracy this morning. 1) AT&T still has the best quality platform in VoIP with CallVantage, but they're no longer really pushing it. Inst...

By Andy Abramson AOL has been behind SIP for over three years or more. They are not jumping on board now. They are simply using what little they have left to SPIN this. Alec pretty much nailed it here as did Ken Camp. 1) Pricier? 2) One way calling? 3) May not be there in six months?

By Andy Abramson Yesterday Steve Jobs and the Cupertino Crew took center stage and unveiled the SDK for the iPhone and the world is waking up to the iPhone being a rather good device for VoIP. Let's face it. These plays use VoIP in the middle. But from where I sit there's a lot more here to be exploited, and at risk,...

By Andy Abramson This new system is not a so-called voice-over-Internet-protocol phone system, such as Vonage. It doesn't carry your phone calls wholly over the Internet, but merely uses the Internet to get them to the T-Mobile cellphone network, which then carries the calls as if they had been made on a c...

By Andy Abramson Now, for those who don't want to talk and fly, my feeling is there is the need to establish "quiet zones" which would be where people could contemplate their thoughts, close there eyes and sleep in peace. This is what I have found works very well on the Eurostar, on TGV trains and even on the rap...

By Andy Abramson Maybe we should just ban all talking on airplanes.....?  NOT! Rich posts about in flight WiFi and the potential banning of VoIP on the planes. First I'm old enough to remember the GTE Airphone and actually used it a lot in the90's, especially when they had their $1000 a year all you could talk plan. B...

By Andy Abramson Much has been written about Comcast and their packet sniffing around P2P file transfers. It's also in my view impacting Skype traffic too. Each day Ken Rutkowski and I record a daily news program. For the past few years we have used Skype over Broadband to connect and for Ken to be able to captur...

By Andy Abramson I'm not at all surprised to read that one of the nation's largest cable operators is getting accused of packet shaping. Nor am I surprised that their support folks are being mum on the subject. It seems thought some unhappy Comcast customers are happy to write about their issues which direct...