Recent Blog Posts

How to improve audio citizen journalism

Sun, 2007-09-09 12:26 — JR

There must be several YouTube equivalents of audio. But they require you to be Internet users. How about those overwhelmingly huge non-Net users who want their views, and content in general, to get across? There is a simple way to...

Read more

Stretching the voicemail a bit more

Sun, 2007-09-09 10:21 — JR

Voicemail as an application has been mostly passive. I would like to see it becoming an intelligent agent analyzing a customerâ€™s usage patterns, for instance. For instance, when I call someone and he does not answer, I get anxious as...

Read more

Japanese VoIP 2Q07 update

Sun, 2007-09-09 09:47 — JR

â€¢ NTT VoBB customers: 3.8 million. NTT East 2.1m, NTT West 1.7m â€¢ NTT VoIP/VoBB ARPU: 4800 yen â€¢ Softbank BB: VoIP subscribers around 5m...

Read more

Interview with Guillaume d'Eyssautier, CEO, PicoChip

Fri, 2007-09-07 10:24 — Faisal Kawoosa

How would you sum up the competition you face in UMTS and Femtocell areas? In UMTS, there is competition on the big base-station level from Nokia, Ericsson, etc. But innovation comes from the smaller side of base stations. We are...

Read more

Trends in outsourcing chip manufacturing (part 1)

Fri, 2007-09-07 12:12 — Anonymous

If you believe that startups in chip are able to get in only through outsourcing you may think again. It has become inevitable to outsource chip manufacturing irrespective of how long the vendor has been in the business, or how...

Read more

Level 3 2Q07 VoIP update

Fri, 2007-09-07 12:52 — JR

â€¢ Voice revenues of $292 million during 2Q07 â€¢ VoIP revenues in the range of $100 million to $120 million. VoIP revenue generated from domestic and international voice termination services, and VoIP local inbound, enhanced local and toll free services...

Read more

Swisscom seeks easier way toward IMS

Thu, 2007-09-06 12:58 — JR

Swisscom is pursuing one of the easiest roadmaps to IMS. Ericsson has deployed the core IMS components (CSCF) and will be integrating three separate network components of Swisscom. Three different network components or service offerings that Swisscom will integrate to...

Read more

Global Crossing 2Q07 VoIP update

Thu, 2007-09-06 07:09 — JR

â€¢ $114 million revenues from carrier voice, which represents about $46 million decrease on same quarter last year. Decline due to reduced emphasis on carrier voice wholesale and increased focus on enterprise VoIP services. â€¢ VoIP traffic: estimated between 4...

Read more

Application Server vendors winning the Business IP Trunking game

Thu, 2007-09-06 19:12 — JR

Business IP Trunking has been one of the fastest selling products of those service providers that have been selling VoIP access to enterprises. Business IP trunking is a low risk proposition for both service providers as well as customers. Throwing...

Read more

Chinese carriers: 2Q07 VoIP minutes

Wed, 2007-09-05 07:31 — JR

â€¢ China Unicom: 3.2 billion National Long Distance (NLD) VoIP minutes, 26 million International Long Distance (ILD) VoIP minutes â€¢ China Mobile: Estimated 9.8 billion VoIP minutes, mostly NLD â€¢ China Telecom: Estimated 12.5 billion VoIP minutes of NLD, 29.4...

Read more

Theme by Dr. Radut.