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VoIP Services
Has consumer VoIP hit the wall?
Vonage added 255,936 net subscribers (after churn) in Q206, which is really pretty good. But is that music continuing, slowing or ending? Who subscribes to consumer VoIP? Clearly, there is the geek and while it seems like there is a never ending supply, the market for geeks is finite and not horribly big. The next […]
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Mino Wireless Calling
I’ve been playing with an international mobile service from Mino. If you’ve ever made an international call from your mobile phone, you know they’re expensive. For example, T-Mobile will charge me $0.34 a minute to call most European countries, while you can get easily get a rate of only $0.03-0.05 from a traditional LD or [...]
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Talktrust — has some value
I slammed the poor GrandCentral service earlier in the week. But I’ve got more positive things to say about Talktrust. Talktrust is a prepaid service (meaning your put some money on your account and only replenish it as you use it up) that is basically a glorified IVR system. They have applications for Ebay or […]
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Comparing broadband providers
One of the most common reasons, I’ve found, that consumers cancel their VoBB (voice over broadband service) is primarily due to poor quality. While most of us can tolerate the occasional “dropped†call, regular re-occurring bad voice quality doesn’t cut it. Poor voice quality is typically characterized as choppy, garbled or echo [...]
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Grandcentral and stupid phone tricks
I’ve been experimenting with a service from GrandCentral.com. The company was started by a bunch of ex-Dialpad folks and they’ve created the 2006 version of “find me, follow me†phone service. Unlike other bloggers who quickly post stuff, I’ve actually being using the service (I signed up for 2 accounts) as both my [...]
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