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Making free phone calls just got easier through Google(www.google.com) (so long we all remember that “free” is not really free, but subsidized through someone else’s money) via “Voice Calls from Gmail.” More specifically, you need a Gmail account and calls through your computer to American and Canadian numbers are free through “at least” January 2011. [...] Last week, Google officially ‘fessed up to buying Gizmo5 for an “undisclosed amount.” Now everyone is falling all over themselves to spin this as the Greatest Thing since sliced bread. Excuse me, did everyone forget that it took Google a YEAR before it got its act together with Google Voice? Don’t expect this to [...] Someone stumbled across Comcast’s quiet rollout of “HomePoint” service in Florida at the end of last week, but the cable company is making up for a soft rollout with a launch of a marketing campaign in Denver today (Monday, October 12). Comcast plans to roll out the service to other markets in the months to [...] There’s been a slew of announcements fluffing a second wave of anonymous-style phone calling via the web. Nobody made money on the first wave, so I’m not sure where the beef, er, green is the second time around. Three and four years ago, it was all the rage to A) Give away free phone numbers for [...] Running around last week, I didn’t have a chance to post anything about Vonage’s unlimited flat-rate calling plan and the throw-in of unlimited “readable” voice mail. So I’m playing catchup and Vonage is playing catch-up. The “Vonage World” plan provides unlimited calling around the world to more than 60 countries, including India, Mexico and China under [...] I’ve been spending the last day staring at the ocean and pondering what the latest financials for Vonage really mean. Is the glass half empty or half full? The half-empty argument is pretty straightforward and buried at the end of the company’s rah-rah “We’re in the black” verbiage. Vonage lost a net 89,000 subscribers last quarter, [...] I had two separate calls today, each with its own unique high-touch component. On the first call, I logged into the weekly VoIP User’s conference session using ZipDX and G.722. Featured speaker was Anthony Stankus, Gigaset Communications product manager for North America — needless to say, he was drinking his own champaigne by using a Gigaset [...] Enterprise VoIP Planet is reporting a jaw-dropper. The magicJack guys are saying that they are making a femtocell-esque version of the magicJack device. For a few dollars more, magicJack will supposedly offer a USB device that will latch onto your cell phone signal and redirect an outbound call from a phone into the magicJack network. [...] Over at TMCNet, Gary Kim has unearthed survey data generated by Alcatel-Lucent on global consumer telecommunications spending in these tight times. People are cutting, but they’re going to keep VoIP and multi-channel video services (i.e. TV) pretty much the same. Getting chopped are pay-per-view movies downloaded from the Internet and mobile data service. Customers plan to [...] Deja cheap minutes! Comcast has jumped onto the how-low-can-you-go bandwagon, announcing a bundle of 300 anytime international minutes for a flat fee of $15 (well, $14.95 per month. This fits in with the preaching I did late yesterday about vanilla voice minutes and this morning’s manifesto about the third wave of voice communications being HD. Comcast [...] |
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