There’s been a lot of talk lately about mobile VoIP. People feel like the mobile operators are about to lose their businesses to all those startups offering free and low cost calling by utilizing the data path of cellular networks. I have provided my views already on why I think these startups are not growing anywhere, and why IMS will wipe them out of the market altogether. Guess what? I’ve been prophetic in this one. This week, a distinguished group
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 9th, 2009 | Filed under Standardization
VoIP blogs have been filled with optimism lately about the prospects of mobile VoIP. Om Malik reports about this: But two recent statements by carriers from different parts of the world are making me wonder if the mobile phone companies are softening their stance on mobile VoIP. Last week, Verizon went out of its way to highlight the fact that it had tested VoIP calling on its new 4G wireless network. (The other 4G wireless company, Clearwire, has warmed up
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 27th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
Dave Michels wrote a thought provoking article over at NoJitter, where he came to the conclusion that the IP Phone has peaked: The handwriting is on the wall, and rather than mourn the IP Phone, we should celebrate its short life. Perhaps “mourn” is too strong; its decline will be slow. Death in this industry is extremely slow–consider all the dead digital phones still freshly manufactured every day. So while death may be a point of contention or exaggeration, decline
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 3rd, 2009 | Filed under Clients
Eric Krapf shares a presentation of John Giese from Avaya, which practically kills the idea of the PC as a phone – it’s a bit too harsh for my taste, but rather in-line with my own thoughts about desktops and IP phones. Still on NoJitter, DaveMichels sees things a bit differently, stating that IP Phones have peaked, and will be replaced by desktop and mobile phones. Stacey Higginbotham GigaOM reports on an increase in upstream bandwidth use – if this trend continues, it will be another step towards visual communications for consumers at home. Andy Abramson from VoIP Watch indicates what aspects of the App Store phenomena worries Google – his analysis is sound, though I don’t see App Stores catching over web browsing in the long run.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 30th, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
Cory Andrews from VoIP Supply briefs about SIP Intercom systems from Cyberdata – it’s nice to see more types of communication products adopting SIP. This will definitely increase the innovation and usefulness of what we do as an industry. John Gallagher over at the GIPS blog provides statistics on HD Voice from a recently held webinar – just in time for the HD Communication Summit. The IMTC, an organization dealing with VoIP multimedia interoperability, has
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 21st, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
