Tom Keating – VoIP Blog The war on spam is a battle that no doubt will be fought for years to come. As the spammers continue to send viruses packed with email zombie programs and terrorize unsuspecting victims who open their attachments, we have to wonder when the spamming wars will ever end. Make no mistake, it is a form of terrorism.
See original here:
The War on Spam
Mark Evans http://evans.blogware.com/ According to an extensive report by TeleGeography, the number of VOIP subscribers in the U.S. will climb to four million by the end of this year from 1.8 million in Q1 2005. By 2010, the research firm forecasts there will be 17.5 million subscribers while annual revenue will be more than $5-billion
Original post:
U.S. VOIP Projections
Mark Evans http://evans.blogware.com/ It’s not much of a surprise that Videotron has terminated its $4.95 a month for 1,000 LD minute plan today after Bell Canada and Rogers stopped similar offers last month. With LD prices returning to 4¢ or 5¢ a minute for North American calls – rather than 0.5¢ – some consumers may start to see VOIP as a more viable option again. Given consumers don’t seem to be interested in Web-based calling features, VOIP service providers had tried to use the idea low-cost LD as a major marketing tool
More here:
The Disappearance of Really Cheap LD
Andy Abramson – VoIP Watch Just after my post below, I came across this post from East Asian blogger/reporter and pal Jeremy Wagstaff about Skype In the Classroom. Now only if Apple had really kept going with their Apple In the Classroom program as great guns as they had in the early days.
Read more from the original source:
Skype As The ClassRoom
Leonardo Faoro – The VoIP Weblog The odd things happening to VoIP users on Comcast’s network continue, even today. First, there was my personal debacle dealing with Comcast support. Then, there was Jim Studnicki’s revelation of what certainly appears to be intentional penalizing of third-party VoIP traffic by Vonage.
Continue reading here:
Is Comcast tampering with its customers’ VoIP?
Leonardo Faoro – The VoIP Weblog I would personally like to take a moment to voice solidarity with and concern for our friends in London, which was attacked by terrorists this morning. I know this blog has an international audience, so those of you reading from the United Kingdom are in my thoughts this evening. As an American, I deplore the awful, murderous deed perpetrated on Londoners, and sincerely hope for the best for all those injured and for comfort to the families of the dead.
Here is the original post:
To our friends in London
Mark Evans http://evans.blogware.com/ Not sure what to make of a deal that will see Opera launch a technical preview that integrates BitTorrent to support faster downloads. Of course, Opera says these would only be legal downloads such as “Linux software and computer game demos” rather than all those songs and movies that have driven the entertainment industry crazy. Opera said it twigged onto the benefits of Bit Torrent after the release of Opera 8 knocked out its servers due to high demand.
Continue reading here:
Opera-Bit Torrent: A Deal with the Devil?
Mark Evans http://evans.blogware.com/ Point Topic, which does research on broadband services, estimates more than 11 million people were using a retail VOIP service for at least some of their telephone calls at the end of March – compared with more five million in mid-2004. The largest market is Japan (7.2 million users) where Yahoo Softbank provides free VOIP service as part of a broadband bundle, while U.S.
Read the rest here:
11M VOIP Users Can’t Be Wrong
Google (s goog) is “just scratching the surface” with Google Voice, Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product Management, said today on eWeek.com , and will move aggressively next year to further blur the line between telephony and the Internet. Which means network operators will have to find ways to leverage their networks and provide competing apps and services or be relegated to simply pushing other companies’ offerings through their pipes. Google is gearing up to do battle with Cisco (s csco) and Microsoft (s msft) in the unified communications market
Read the rest here:
The Importance of Pipes