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Do VoIP savings lead users to increase spending on mobile services?

Rather buried in a Telecoms.com piece grokking some new research from U.K.-based firm Analysys comes what I call a "makes you go hmmm" nugget:Paradoxically, VoIP seems to have little impact on the migration of voice traffic to mobile networks and in fact appears to release consumer cash for ...

Tags: Predictions and Observations

Blog posts 2007-07-31

Here's where many of those orphaned SunRocket users will go

 Now I know why SunRocket instituted their $199 a year plan. Perhaps not so much as a clever competitive marketing strategy but as a desperate move to raise cash.Not enough cash was raised to sustain operations, or even to capture the interest of a lender or buyer.With the shutdown of...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, Packet 8

Blog posts 2007-07-17

ShoreTel's IPO should elevate their competitive posture in enterprise VoIP

You may not have heard of ShoreTel, so some factoidness to get you started.I consider them a leader in the Enterprise VoIP space.  ShoreTel 7 has some new features, including Programmable Toolbars that enable end users to execute telephony applications via the Personal Call Manager as well as the...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, News

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Outrage: starting today South Korea blocks our soldiers from using VoIP

Starting today, U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea can no longer use U.S.-based VoIP services to phone home.Now, they will have to use a South Korean telco such as Korea Telecom Corp., Hanaro Telecom Inc. as well as LG Dacom Corp. These soldiers must obtain a South Korean local...

Tags: Regulatory, Predictions and Observations, News

Blog posts 2007-05-31

Analysts: pure play VoIP companies have "no future"

If you thought that the prospects for Vonage and other "pure play," non-bundled VoIP services were bleak, just wait until you read analysts comments contained in a newly published piece by Kelly Teal on xchange magazine's xchange online site.First, Kelly makes the point that margins for voice services have been...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, Vonage

Blog posts 2007-05-31

"Weight" of worldwide VoIP in 2006: 0.008 millionth of an ounce

I  sense the "huh, what is he talking about" from the assembled multitude.No, I am not talking about the weight of all the VoIP equipment in use. I am referring to the weight of all the electrons needed to support the electrical charges on chip capacitor components necessary to carry...

Tags: Research, Predictions and Observations

Blog posts 2007-05-20

Microsoft vs. open source now spreading to VoIP?

Paul at GigaOM writes about some new SIP-based, Microsoft office Communications software-compliant IP voice devices — phones, headsets, videocam monitors — being informally unveiled today at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference in Los Angeles.Paul correctly sees this as a move on Microsofts part to break into the corporate VoIP...

Tags: Asterisk, General, microsoft, Predictions and Observations

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Pew survey shows VoIP has a lot to do to reach the mass market

A well-publicized new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project claims that 31 percent of Americans are "Elite" technology users, 20 percent are "Middle of the Road" users, and 49 percent are "Low Tech" and non-users of technology.This news should be sobering to those of us who...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, General

Blog posts 2007-05-07