By Doug Mohney, on August 6th, 2009
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, [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 23rd, 2009
TechCrunch says ooma has raised another $14 million, for a total of $56 million in VC money raised over the course of the company’s history.
Leading the round was Worldwide Technology Partners. and the deal reportedly wipes out (probably dilutes out) the other investors. TCrunch says that ooma was “really on the roaps and down to [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 1st, 2009
Edited/Corrected on 6/2 @ 3:05 PM ET – ooma’s new product will support G.722, added comment about new codecs
Ooma announced today that its products/service will be available through 3,000 RadioShack stories nationwide. The company bundles free lifetime PSTN local and long-distance US. phone service in with its VoIP broadband phone device. IP communications geeks will [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 1st, 2009
One of the missing pieces out of the HD Communications puzzle is standards — yes, plural. There are plenty of codec standards, mind you, but what defines an HD phone call, really? The telecommunications industry may have to borrow from a page from the TV world at some point down the road.
The lowest common denominator [...]