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Packet8 CEO: here's how our $199 a year and SunRocket's $199 a year are different

FierceVoIPs Deborah McAdams posts a thorough grok of Packet8 owner 8x8's recent  quarterly conference call.  A good bit of the juicy tidbits pertain to the effect of SunRocket's closing on Packet8.The big factoid: latest numbers show Pakcet 8 has signed up 19,000 former SunRocket subs.That's not necessarily an entirely blessed...

Tags: 8X8, Packet8, rnrnFierceVoIPs Deborah McAdams, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-06

Packet 8 CEO: don't confuse us with THEM. Me: OK, but only up to a point

Bryan Martin, CEO of VoIP company 8x8 (Packet8), is quoted in a press release that appears to take pains to distinguish Packet8 from that big Internet telephony competitor of theirs whose name starts with a "V."Reading this document, it appears to have been precipitated by Martin's concerns that Vonage's legal...

Tags: Packet 8, Packet8

Blog posts 2006-07-06

Big telecom and VoIP singing 'Kum Ba Ya?" This is Ultimate Fighting, people!

Talk is rife with the stated wishes of telecom-based broadband Internet access providers such as AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth to impose or negotiate surcharges for high-bandwidth content and services such as VoIP.But rather than the looming battle over net neutrality that many including yours truly and I predict in...

Tags: big telecom, telecommunications, Bryan Martin

Blog posts 2006-01-18

Packet 8 CEO: expect Yahoo! to compete against Skype

VoIP service Packet 8 does not currently offer softphone service. As such, they are not a competitor to Skype, the Gizmo Project, or Yahoo!'s often-speculated on efforts to build a telephony business out of its recently purchased Dialpad acquisition.Yet as a major player in the overall VoIP space, the thoughts...

Tags: Bryan Martin

Blog posts 2005-08-19

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Analyst: Breach revelations part of campaign for new funds, powers

No doubt, you have seen the news that F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program was breached by hackers, with all signs pointing to China. The Post reports that Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon are saying that no serious compromises occurred: "We know we are probed on...

Tags: Revelation, Hacker, Pentagon, Cybersecurity, Chances, Hacking, Security, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee

Microsoft's strong-arming of the ISO process regarding Open XML, the proprietary format of Microsoft Office, may be destroying its legitimacy. (Picture from the IS-Thought Group.) In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on WG1, which is handling Microsoft's application to make...

Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-06

Packet8 CEO: in light of SunRocket's demise, we're hearing rumors of more VoIP market exits

 As the CEO of the second-largest after Vonage "pure play" VoIP provider, Packet8's Bryan Martin is pretty much plugged in to the whole sector. At ITExpo I had an informal background conversation with Bryan. He feels that the SunRocket implosion cost all VoIP providers some credibility on...

Tags: VoIP, Phone, Packet8, SunRocket, VoIP Company, Price Elasticity, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-13

Via smart moves, Packet8 is growing its business sector

Packet8 maker and marketer 8x8 reports that it now has more than 6,000 U.S.-based business customers.Trend lines seem to point to a diversification of the business beyond increasingly discounted residential service, to higher-margin business service.The lesson, at least to me, is that an appropriate message to business users- backed...

Tags: General, Packet 8, 8X8, Packet8

Blog posts 2007-02-02

eBay-Skype: Three VoIP entrepreueur views

I thought it would be interesting to gather some views of the eBay acquisition of Skype held by a few informed figures in the VoIP community that other sources might not necessarily gather in one place.Here then, is a sampling:Bryan Martin, CEO of Packet 8 maker 8x8 writes in his...

Tags: eBay Inc.

Blog posts 2005-09-13

Videophones get cheaper

Videophones get cheaperI doubt this will ever hit critical mass[i]"Once we get our technology into the hands of more consumers, we feel confident its appeal will take hold and bring about the critical mass necessary to make videophone conversations an everyday experience," 8x8 Chairman Bryan Martin said in a statement.[/i]This...

Tags: Cellular phones, videophone, phone

Discussion threads 2005-04-14