Will 2007 be the Year that Ad Supported Phone Calls Take Off?
September 2007 may come to be known as the turning point for ad supported phone calls. No fewer than four companies have launched new services or received funding for business models that revolve around ad subsidized free phone calls.
Blyk, the UK MVNO that is perhaps the most well-known of the pack, went live on [...]
BT Powered Mashups at Web 21C – Wow!
Yesterday I mentioned the UK’s functional separation policy that forced BT to segregate its access network from its services business. Today, I decided to look a little closer at BT and Openreach, the network company it spun-off. I had been aware of BT’s leadership in the next generation networking space through its announced [...]
Acronym Alert: Lookout for MICE
The recent Spring VON show was the locus for the birth of a new acronym – MICE (a contraction for Media, Internet, Communications and Entertainment). As described by VON Magazine’s Editor-In-Chief, Doug Mohney, the “MICE revolution” is about “taking the individual ingredients of video and voice and mixing them together in new and creative [...]
Callback Makes a Comeback
For those of you not familiar, a callback user dials a “trigger number”, lets it ring once, and hangs up before it answers. A telephony application then rings back the caller with a U.S. dial tone (an antiquated concept in the era of VoIP), and the caller can then dial any destination they choose [...]
Will 3 Be the New 2?
A reader of this blog recently asked me how I differentiated between Voice 2.0 and Telco 2.0, terms that I apply liberally to this blog as well as to my conversations in general.
The answer is that Voice 2.0 – a term I first heard being used by Alec Saunders – refers to the next [...]
I’m Busy, but Please Call My Avatar
After recently speaking with the folks at Vivox about their voice solutions for online communities, I finally took the time to experience Second Life – the much-hyped 3D virtual world with over 2 million inhabitants. The topic of Second Life came up because Vivox is providing free phone calls to all Second Life residents [...]
Ken Camp’s Unified Communications Community
Last week, I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with technology insider and all-around nice guy, Ken Camp, as part of his Unified Communications Community podcast series. He has graciously made the podcast of our conversation available here.
As the author of IP Telephony Demystified, Ken has had a bigger influence than he knows on [...]