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- Man mistakenly assigned Vonage number now has to go thru PITA of requesting it back
- Man mistakenly assigned Vonage number now has to go thru PITA of requesting it backpacket8 woesafter my own bad experience with packet8 i stumbled upon your blog and this post on the Vonage number blunder. in may case, packet8 charged me a disconnection fee of $59.99 for a number that...
- Tags: Blogging, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp., PITA
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Reader: Vonage assigned my Packet8 number, and I'm not even a Vonage customer
- Reader: Vonage assigned my Packet8 number, and I'm not even a Vonage customerWonder who made the mistake?Although the tone of the article indicated Vonage was at fault, there are a lot of hands in the soup when porting numbers. Could have been a Packet8 mistake, a LEC mistake, a...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Packet8
- Discussion threads 2008-03-01
- Man mistakenly assigned Vonage number now has to go thru PITA of requesting it back
- Yesterday I blogged about the case of reader dmuniz, who wrote to tell me that his Packet8 phone number was mistakenly assigned to Vonage- even though he is not, and never has been a Vonage customer. Just a few mins. ago I got...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Packet8, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Reader: Vonage assigned my Packet8 number, and I'm not even a Vonage customer
- I've just received an email from "dmuniz," who is a reader of this blog. Are you ready for another Vonage horror story this Thursday afternoon? K, well, then, here's what he wrote: I don't subscribe to Vonage, I use...
- Tags: Phone, Vonage Holdings Corp., Packet8, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Hello Vonage video phone-goodbye to vidconf bridge svcs?
- Hello Vonage video phone-goodbye to vidconf bridge svcs?Get A VideoPhone at www.LookCall.comGet the Hottest VideoPhone Service and More at the Best Price at www.LookCall.com You can also Make Money, by Watching the Streaming Video that shows you how to get paid on VideoPhone Sales Referrals.Click on the Products Links or...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Cellular phones, www.LookCall.com, videophone, video, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-17
- Compare Top Hosted VoIP Phone Systems From Vendors like Aptela, Packet8 and Covad
- Research the leading hosted PBX systems from major vendors and compare the features and services that are important to you. A new phone system is a critical element of your business. You can't afford to make a mistake but you also know that you need to have...
- Tags: Covad Communications Group Inc., Phone, Packet8, PBX, VoIP Phone, Phone System, VoIP-News, Telephony, VOIP, Networking, Telecommunications
- White papers 2008-02-12
- Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy path
- Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy pathCisco should buy themI recently saw an ad for "Cisco Telepresence."If Ojo isn't the best product to add to their teleconferencing portfolio, I don't know what is. It's been out a while, people have them, and incorporating Ojo into their stable...
- Tags: Litigation, Telephony, Cellular phones, Ojo, bankruptcy path, videophone, bankruptcy, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Here%27s+the+FCC%27s+Madison+River+port-blockingconsent+decree
- Here%27s+the+FCC%27s+Madison+River+port-blockingconsent+decreePort blocking in HawaiiThis is happening in Hawaii now, as the two major ISP's, Hawaiian Telecom and Time Warner Road Runner have decided to block those using voip over their networks. I am part of a company called Liberty International and one of the products we market is VOIP service....
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Internet service providers (ISPs), Hawaiian Telecom, VoIP, VoIP service
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy path
- Tom Keating is one of those VoIP bloggers who understands business and technology, and mixes journalistic doggedness with the backgrounding of an engineer. I say this because Tom reports this morning that Worldgate Communications is experiencing a financial rough patch. A really bad...
- Tags: VoIP, Videophone, Worldgate Communications, Bankruptcy, Tom Keating, Litigation, Telephony, Business Operations, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- How much for a video-friendly Internet?
- How much for a video-friendly Internet?What about static addresses?ISP's charge extra for static IP addresses. That made sense in the days of dial-up, but it is a total rip-off in the world of "always on" Internet. We are all second-class contents consumers without static addresses.Only if you sign up for...
- Tags: Corporate communications, DSL, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Network technology, Broadband Internet, TV & Home Theater, Verizon Communications Inc., Internet, Fios TV, video, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-01-19
- IMHO: many if not most retail salespeople are clueless about VoIP
- I regularly visit lots of consumer electronics retailers, computer-centric and office supply monoliths. Toy stores for adults of course me being an adult is debatable Although I am already set up with many VoIP accounts and gear, I like to walk up to the salespeople in the...
- Tags: Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Packet8 CEO: in light of SunRocket's demise, we're hearing rumors of more VoIP market exits
- Packet8 CEO: in light of SunRocket's demise, we're hearing rumors of more VoIP market exitsVOIP Companies SurvivabilityI don't know about other VOIP companies services and their financial soundness, but I can tell you that I have been using a VOIP service from a company called IGONET for over a year...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, Packet8, SunRocket
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- News to know: Salesforce.com UI; Verizon Wireless sues FCC; RFID implants
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com: It's all about the UI. Gallery right. Verizon Wireless files suit over FCC auction rules. The lawsuit. Google public policy blog: Consumer choice is always the right answer. Techmeme. Larry Dignan: Long-term storm clouds brewing over...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Virtualization, SAP AG, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., RFID, Verizon Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- 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
- For the blind the Web is one step forward, two steps back
- For the blind the Web is one step forward, two steps backIf there's a demand for......new assistive technologies, someone will hack them together--we don't need yet ever more of the intrusively heavy hand of government "allowing" or disallowing this or that. That is your proposal isn't it? That...
- Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Channel management, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Major Corporations, Americans with Disabilities Act, Web, wheelchair
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- From the grave, SunRocket sues Vonage over customer list
- Yes, there is a "ghost of SunRocket." That'd be some legal entity called SunRocket LLC, formed to preside over the dissolution of SunRocket's assets.Assets presumably, principally being, the late VoIP-ers 200,000 strong subscriber list.SunRocket LLC isn't pleased with what they view as the "illegal" way in which Vonage obtained a...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., SunRocket, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- SunRocket orphan to TeleBlend provisioner's CEO: I am really tired of "runaround," "incompetence"
- SunRocket orphan to TeleBlend provisioner's CEO: I am really tired of "runaround," "incompetence"Why stick with Teleblend? Look further !Thanks for this update. I'm so glad I didn't switch to Teleblend when SunRocket died on me. I personally went with Packet8, but there are a bunch of other reliable stable companies...
- Tags: E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, SunRocket, Teleblend, Telebland
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- Skype failure and the Enterprise 2.0 mess
- Skype failure and the Enterprise 2.0 messCheck for sabotageIf I were a Skype technician, I would be looking for some kind of sabotage from the telecoms who receive income from the competeing and much more expensive versions of VOIP.This not Enterprise 2.0Well not really anyway. Enterprises do need more reliable...
- Tags: Six Sigma, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process improvement, INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Skype Technologies S.A., Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- At least three reasons why Vonage subscriber count is flat-lining
- At least three reasons why Vonage subscriber count is flat-liningRuss.....troubling???????My god Russ, when you describe a churn increase of .1% as troubling, I fully expect IF on their next report churn decreases .1% you report it as "everyone is in love with Vonage"! GET REAL!!! A tenth of one percent...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp., phone
- Discussion threads 2007-08-10
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