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- VoIP's "four obstacles" are listed and described
- VoIP's "four obstacles" are listed and describedVoIP not ready for the bigtimeI had Vonage for my home phone service. Vonage--the company--itself was a nightmare (I'm back with Verizon now). But the Vonage VoIP service was almost as bad. Voice quality was ok, but not as clear as...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, voice quality, VoIP, Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-12
- Microsoft does open source a favor with Response Point
- Microsofts Response Point, announced as an OEM competitor to Digiums Asterisk a few weeks ago, may be the biggest favor Microsoft has done open source in some time. (Picture from Obufete.Com.)The reason is that open source has bigger enemies than Microsoft when it comes to VOIP technology. The Bells.While Verizon...
- Tags: Telephony, Microsoft Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., VoIP, open source
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- 3 important lessons the new Verizon VoiceWing price plan teaches us
- 3 important lessons the new Verizon VoiceWing price plan teaches usMessage has been deleted.
- Tags: Verizon Voicewing, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- Biggest need in the VoIP space: Web-based, carrier-neutral universal VoIP phone directory
- Wouldn't it be great if there was a Web-based centralized directory of inbound VoIP phone numbers from all carriers? A third-party website where customers of Vonage, Skype's SkypeIn service, Packet8, AT&T CallVantage, Verizon VoiceWing, and pretty much any other IP phone service you could think of could list their inbound...
- Tags: telephone, VoIP
- Blog posts 2006-06-21
- Vonage gets squeezed from above-Verizon- and below-AOL
- On Wednesday, Verizon announced that it would lower the cost of its VoiceWing service from $34.95 a month to $24.95 a month. That's a tad cheaper than Vonage's most comparable, $24.99 plan. But unlike Vonage VoiceWing's activation will be free.Then just yesterday, AOL said it would launch AIM Phoneline,...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-05-05
- Is this an MSN Messenger VoIP UI?
- An independent website called Messenger Blog has posted what one of the site's authors says is an updated version of MSN Messenger with PC to phone capability.It's been widely reported this capability will be offered via a partnership between Microsoft and MCI. I don't see an MCI logo in...
- Tags: MCI Inc., MSN, Verizon Communications Inc., MSN Messenger
- Blog posts 2005-12-12
- To battle handset VoIP, cell carriers have three alternatives
- Earlier this week, colleagues Stefanie Olsen and Marguerite Reardon wrote and posted a quite insightful article called "VoIP wants to cut the computer cord."Their premise is that mobile users already predisposed to using VoIP don't necessarily want to open their laptop to access these services via softphone - say, a...
- Tags: softphone
- Blog posts 2005-09-28
- What about..'GoogleNet by Verizon?'
- Something big is about to pop at Google. Just exactly what this is going to be has been a big topic this week at the Fall VON show.I really have no inside information, but I do have some insight. I'd say a GoogleNet by Verizon partnership would be the ultimate...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., GoogleNet
- Blog posts 2005-09-22
- Will enterprise users buy business VoIP from consumer VoIP providers?
- Right now, Verizon VoiceWing's VoIP service is aimed at residences and small businesses.But based on very informed scuttlebutt I've heard in corridors at the Fall 2005 VON show: I would not be the most surprised person in the world if, sooner rather than later, Verizon offered a branded VoIP for...
- Tags: VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-09-20
- UPDATED: Verizon, Columbia U. in major packet and presence research project
- Internet News gives us the scoop on a VoIP functionality research project between Verizon Laboratories and Columbia University. Verizon Labs is funding the effort to the tune of $120,000.This collaboration will concentrates on protecting voice packets from being compromised while traveling over converged networks, and boosting presence features that inform...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-07-28
- Part 1-Here's an overview of the Keynote Systems VoIP Test
- I've now had a chance to read and absorb the Overview of the Keynote Systems Competitive Intelligence for Consumer VoIP Service Providers study released yesterday. The study used precise metrics to measure various call quality performance criterial on some 166,000 VoIP-incumbent phone company calls between New York and San Francisco....
- Tags: Keynote Systems Inc., PSTN, T1, VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-07-13
- What AT&T and Verizon's new E-911 claims downplay - or don't say
- I'm not all that impressed by AT&T's and Verizon's separate announcements late yesterday that yea, they are flooring it on E-911.Sure, there's some movement, but these press releases are all about spin control- assuring anxious current and would-be subscribers that "yea, we're working on it."Let's look at each announcement with...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-07-12
- The two reasons why MCI is bothering with consumer VoIP
- MCI- in all likelihood soon to merge with Verizon- has just rolled out a VoIP service called Neighborhood Broadband. Trials are available in a limited number of cities, with a per-city cap of 5,000 users.The service costs $29.99 a month for unlimited North American calling, and $19.99 for 500 minutes...
- Tags: MCI Inc., Verizon Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-06-24
- 3 important lessons the new Verizon VoiceWing price plan teaches us
- 3 important lessons the new Verizon VoiceWing price plan teaches usDumbest idea ever!Hmm, pay for minutes instead of pay for all you can "eat". Hmm, let me think about this . . . NO!Hmmm 4 cents a minuteI can get long distance for 2.9 cents a minute, with no broadband...
- Tags: Taxes, E-mail, Telephony, Free trade, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Voicewing, connection quality
- Discussion threads 2005-04-07
- 3 important lessons the new Verizon VoiceWing price plan teaches us
- As our sister site CNET News.com reports today, Verizon is out with a new pricing plan for its VoiceWing VoIP service.Verizon VoiceWing 500 offers (well,duh), 500 minutes of outbound local and long-distance calls a month,as well as unlimited inbound calls and free calls to other VoiceWing subscribers.The price point is...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., pricing
- Blog posts 2005-04-06
- Mag says AT&T CallVantage is best VoIP service
- PC Magazine is out with a lengthy but informative review of six VoIP providers.I'll link you to the lead page for each critique. There are examinations of services provided by AT&T CallVantage, Broadvox,Lingo,Verizon VoiceWing, VoicePulse, and, of course, Vonage. There's also a section on what PC Magazine calls "Sometimes-Free Internet...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., AT&T CallVantage
- Blog posts 2005-01-18
- Meet the new F-Word: why there's no valid reason for VoIP activation fees
- I've been doing a lot of hooking up lately. Hooking up routers to my USB ports, in order to test various VoIP products for this magazine article I've been writing. Ya know, one of those "VoIP for the masses" type jobbies.I've been cruising through sign-up pages from some of the...
- Tags: activation fee, VoIP
- Blog posts 2004-12-22
- Verizon VoiceWing's Do Not Disturb Feature
- What do you think of when you read the words, "Do Not Disturb?"I think of the sign ya hang on hotel room doors when you want to get some sleep, or ... well, that's for another discussion.Verizon's VoiceWing Broadband Phone Service has another take on Do Not Disturb. Announced yesterday,...
- Tags: Disturb
- Blog posts 2004-11-23
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