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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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SIP and Rube Goldberg
A big question that’s been looming in my mind is whether SIP is the answer as “the†VoIP protocol. You should see some of the SIP bigots get all wadded up when I pose the question. Course I remember the X.25 bigots, frame relay bigots, X.400 bigots and and and. SIP is clearly better than […]
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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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Coffee — the elixir of life
I love Dunkin Donuts coffee. OK – so this is a stupid posting. We’ve hated Starbucks coffee, seems to be a common theme, but what can one do, since day one. After living in Europe for many years, I’m always on the hunt for decent caffine. What a GREAT marketing idea, last year, I must […]
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Better Price or Quality?
VoIP as a technology only has two paths – make it cheaper or better. To get rapid widespread adoption, you need both and we’re not there as an industry. Today, VoBB providers (like Vonage and SunRocket) can offer you unlimited telephony at prices ranging from $17 to $25 a month. Obviously they planned to make […]
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