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Chris Kranky
Best Buy’s new Speakeasy
Last week, Best Buy announced they’d bought Speakeasy (a VoBB and ISP) for $97m. Speakeasy had ~ $80m in revenue, 40000 customers, 300 employees and had raised ~$50m in VC funding. What’s going on here and what does this mean? Best Buy loves the concept of monthly recurring versus the traditional one time shot they […]
Chris Koehncke
Yahoo! Mobile Client
At CTIA, the Yahoo! booth was constantly mobbed, thanks to the excellent & constant free ice cream (which was wonderful). Yahoo! was promoting their mobile client. I’m totally excited about this — because it’s the future. The day will come where wireless will simply be yet another IP pipe. Similar to the PC world, [...]
Chris Koehncke
CTIA Wow
Back from the main U.S. wireless trade event (CTIA) in Orlando. What I was struck by how overserved this industry is. Press releases indicate that 40,000 people attended. Course alot of folks register and then "no show", but the halls were busy all days. Along with Spring Break, trying to get a hotel room in […]
Chris Koehncke
Bang bang, we’re all dead
I’m sorry to report that VoIP died on Thursday, March 8th, 2006 at 3:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This is when reports published that Vonage had lost and Verizon had won their patent infringement suit. Within an hour, my phone began to ring as service providers and VoIP operators called asking the inevitable, "Does this [...]
Chris Koehncke
Where have all the prices gone?
I was at a recent event where one of the "keynote" speakers was excited about the future growth of VoIP services in the small-medium business (SMB) marketplace. I’m not so sure, but if you accept this on face value, let’s take a look at the industry today. Cost of customer acquisition is generally THE key […]
Chris Koehncke
No I’m not interested
The email began, I’m updating my address book. Would you, please, take a moment to review your contact information? How does NO sound to you? And better yet, how about never calling me again, you moron. It’s amazing the number of people using Plaxo and other such Internet address book services that allow these services [...]
Chris Koehncke