Image via CrunchBase Just as we're seeing Over the Top (OTT) in voice and data service impacting the legacy mobile operators and telcos, there's also a movement afoot thats going to challenge the legacy video conferencing providers like BT, Verizon, Glowpoint (I'm a shareholder) and the rest who have been in the business of white glove video conferncing services, operating exchanges or hosting bridging services. Yesterday pal Larry Lisser, who is known in the telecom industry as the person to go to to revive sales, penned a post supportive of disruptive Silicon Valley startup, Vidtel (a Comunicano client) who are... Read more »
Latest Skype Videophone News
Skype For Windows Is Coming Soon We still can't get more than the irony: Although Microsoft now owns Skype, the video calling service is nonetheless not readily available on Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. Microsoft has promised Skype will be available someday to Windows Telephone users, … Read much more on Hot Hardware Game on: Samsung's [...] Read more »
Fonality Names New CEO
I just learned that Fonality, a company that has been very silent and off the radar for months has named a new CEO. He David Scult and came from Microsoft, where he served as GM, of Office 365, Microsoft's cloud implementation of it's market leading productivity suite. Fonality seems to be taking a page out of so many other telcos and making a claim to embrace the cloud, much like client Telesphere which really has with their approach to overall cloud based unified communications. Read more »
I’ll See You In the Car
Motor Authority is reporting that OnStar will be introducing in car video chat for the back seat of automobiles at CES. While no carrier was mentioned hopefully the concept is a webcam and a 4G LTE modem so the back seat passengers can choose whichever video calling solution, however given that the carrier is Verizon Wireless, my money is on Skype (clearly not Google these days with VZW due to the Wallet tiff). A big market for this will be the limousine and town car market. It will also give the reality shows a simple way to get user generated... Read more »
VoIP Grows, Wireline Loses
Network World is reporting that the wireline customer base in the USA is shrinking while VoIP service is increasing, but there view is that VoIP has peaked and that cord cutting, with more and more customers moving to wireless is the trend. Not much new in that thinking except for one key factor. E911. Until E911 on mobile functions exactly like it does on a wireline, the large scale defection won't really occur. Their second observation I agree with. It's the market that's opening widely in the business and enterprise market. It's one of the core reasons why Comcast purchased/acquired/bailed... Read more »
Panasonic Gets The Cloud
Image via CrunchBase Panasonic, long only thought of as a consumer brand--which they're not only--has entered the cloud communications space with support from Broadsoft. The new entry to the market is simply called Panasonic Cloud. Simply put, the company which once rejected ad great Jerry Della Famina's ad agency to work with them when you suggested the line "from the people who brought you Pearl Harbor" is about to make a strafing run at the US Small and Medium Business market with a $39.95 a month per line charge, after the purchase of equipment that runs $299 for one corded... Read more »
DOCSIS 3.0 pushes cable broadband market
DOCSIS 3. pushes cable broadband marketplace CALIFORNIA, USA: Global cable modem termination systems ( CMTS ) and edge quadrature amplitude modulation ( QAM ) revenue increased to $ 368 million in 4Q10, up two percent from 3Q10, finds market analysis firm Infonetics Study in its latest report. Read far more on CIOL XO Communications gets [...] Read more »
Mobile Operators Clarifying VoIP Rules on Data Networks
Image via Wikipedia Vodafone Italia is clarifying their permitting of VoIP, or when they'll block it. In Spain and France I've noticed how some of the mobile operators were blocking Skype and SIP calls over their date networks. It seems to be impacting the pre-paid market more than the contract market, but in the case of Vodafone Italia they are being very clear in defining which customers can, and which can't place or receive Skype or VoIP calls. My feeling is that this is really a pre-cursor to what the mobile operators will permit when LTE rolls out on a... Read more »
Skype Goes Lower and Lower To Get More and More
Skype announced a "lower bandwidth" version of their mobile client, designed to work with more operators around the globe than their current three they have signed up after being live with Three in the UK for almost three years or so, and Verizon in the USA. While no technical details were announced, it was interesting that at Mobile World Congress where everyone is going up in the bandwidth apps game, Skype chose to go lower and down, evidence that they know their market for users on the upper end of early adopters and advanced users may have peaked and now... Read more »
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