Where the Business Week “gets it”–

1) Google’s ubiqulity and many many linked-together apps [...]]]>

As I noted last week, Google Voice is going to make life difficult for Skype — not traditional carriers.  Business Week seems to be in line with my general thinking in a piece out this morning — but gets confused on the details.

Where the Business Week “gets it”–

1) Google’s ubiqulity and many many linked-together apps will drag Google Voice into the picture

2) Google will compete with Skype for SMB dollars and long distance dialing dollars.
Where Business Week doesn’t get it–

1) Implying that Google Voice will be more than a SMB alternative to replace Cisco and Microsoft offerings. NOT.  SMB hosted is different than the larger enterprise offerings that Cisco and Microsoft have out.

2) Implying that GV – a FMC-esque app if you have multiple numbers all over the place — challenges Truphone and Jajah’s revenue  in the mobile VoIP space. Truphone has the whole SIM card play so I think they’re OK.  Jajah runs VoIP calling for other companies, so I don’t see them taking a big hit here…

France Telecom has already deployed mobile HD in France and will be rolling out mobile HD service in Belgium and the UK later this year. [...]]]>

HD voice quality on a cell phone? Don’t laugh, the combination of VoIP and broadband might bring high quality voice calls to mobile handsets a lot faster than you might think.

France Telecom has already deployed mobile HD in France and will be rolling out mobile HD service in Belgium and the UK later this year.  A number of handset manufacturers announced HD capable handsets in Barcelona earlier this year, including Nokia and Sony Ericsson.

Even mobile VoIP player TruPhone says it is ready for HD.  CTO Ed Guy said the company has HD in the lab and is prepared to roll HD support when the time is right.

Qualcomm touted its HD demonstrations in North America, with field trials in its hometown of San Diego and a demo at CTIA.  The company used Digium Asterisk as a transcoding platform to move calls between between its 4GV-WB codec and industry standard G.722, with calls moved over EVDO Rev A. The presentation also included a swipe at how EVDO Rev A/B is more efficient than LTE when it come to VoIP transport.