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
Hi everyone for another new and interesting week. This time the carnival is again in Israel, where we are currently enjoying our Sukkot holyday. Before I start off with the interesting set of posts on our carnival, I want to invite you on behalf of WIP Jam to their UnPanel event on October 8 at CTIA in San Diego. They’ve got a day chocked full with great speakers – one of them is Lauren Thorpe, Senior Director, Developer Relations, Qualcomm
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 5th, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
Mobile VoIP is probably going to be trumped down by IMS. It’s only a matter of time. When carriers will see VoIP as a real opportunity, they will embrace it, and that embrace will be in the form of IMS. While that is true, I believe we’re still a few years before mobile VoIP will be interesting enough for carriers. But don’t take my word on it – ask a better: Martin Sauter. In a recent post of his, Martin
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 29th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
