Suzanne Bowen : Monetizing IP Communications
Suzanne Bowen
37 yrs in telecom, teaching, blog & grant writing, biz development, marketing, & PR. Favorite moments in life involve time w/ family & friends, networking, IP communications industry verticals & horizontals, running, traveling, foreign languages
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November 2010

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Friendly Business Fraud and Preventing Chargebacks

November 23, 2010

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One annual expense our company gladly pays for is our Better Better Business Bureau membership. The organization holds us accountable to certain objective criteria that points to ... what else? Integrity, honesty, quality and other such professional characteristics and ideals.

Ask Mobile Guru James Body Anything about Travel and Phones

November 23, 2010

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[11:12:18 AM]Hi James. Do you have a moment? I have a friend who will be traveling through Europe on business for about a month.

[11:12:58 AM] James Body: Did you know that I was in Florida last week?

[11:13:32 AM] James Body: Truphone has TWO different offerings:

[11:14:00 AM] James Body:  - Truphone VoIP (moble apps on smartphones that do SIP VoIP over WiFi and/or 3G data)

[11:14:47 AM] James Body:  - Truphone Local Anywhere - a multi-IMSI SIM which morphs as you travel between different countries in order that you are always 'local'

[11:15:01 AM] James Body: The two can work together

[11:15:55 AM] James Body: I did check Google maps to see how far away Pensacola was from where I was - but it was a horribly long way

[11:16:16 AM] James Body: Florida is just a bit bigger than England!

[11:17:23 AM] Suzanne Bowen: So he has a Flipphone. Shouldn't he get something different while he is there?

[11:17:46 AM] James Body: I have no idea what a Flipphone is....

[11:17:47 AM] Suzanne Bowen: Yes, Florida could be a nation all on its own.



















Need Persons with Knowledge and/or Experience of State of Mobile in Pakistan

November 16, 2010

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All who wish to help out, do not need to answer all the questions, just the ones that you believe you have some verifiable knowledge of and/or experience with. Feel free to answer here in comment or send me answers via Facebook email, on Linkedin or directly to my work email @didx.net. 
 

Also, you will receive recognition for all of your responses with credit to your name, your company and your company or blog website, but please don't forget to provide that to me.

4G World Goes to China April 2011

November 12, 2010

Heard of 4G World? 2011's event was held Oct. 18-21 at McCormick Place in Chicago. It attracted over 10,000 registered attendees and more than 250 sponsors* (including our company's DIDXhange), and had over 150 exhibitors.


Mobile operators, MVNOs, M2M service providers, and all companies and individuals with an interest in global broadband connectivity products, services, issues and collaborations ...


Listen to News and Blogs While You Work

November 12, 2010

What I like about Odigo which is installed for example on http://blogs.didx.net/ and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/ is that I can listen to news and blogs while I work on other things. If I am distracted, I just pause the news.

It's great for people who are blind or those who use English as a second language, too.

As an Introvert and a Lifelong Addicted Learner, I read open source telephony lists

November 8, 2010

 
I recommend that others in IP communications and related industry join the forums for Asterisk-Biz, freeSWITCH, and Kamailio lists. Even if you do not have time to read the posts at the moment they arrive in your mailbox, just filter them to go to some archive and read them when you can. Our company has developed business with thousands of developers and entrepreneurs around the world through the lists, but we also learn quite a bit about APIs, open source code advice, PBX, and such.

A couple TMC blog posts ago of mine was a copy of my response to many accusations by Asterisk-Biz list members regarding DIDX, its service, its website, the customer service, me, my colleagues, one of our customers and vendors and my business partner Rehan Allahwala.

Time Warp ... Well, One Hour's Worth

November 7, 2010

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In preparation for international business  teleconferences, as of today November 7, 2010, we will have to ask first; who observes this time saving and who does not? Whereas, we might have been '11 hours apart' in time yesterday; today we are 10 hours apart in 'time.'

Do we need daylight added to afternoon hours? Some Wikipedia contributors state and believe that "the practice has never been criticized."

But it has been criticized.

Discussion of DIDX on Asterisk-Biz List Includes Culture Clashes

November 5, 2010

As the Internet and mobile services bring together more and more from the East and West, cultural issues will cause clashes. It is scary to see that there is another way than the way we or you are used to doing things, isn't it? This discussion has only made my company team even more excited about serving our customers the very best we can.

Read the whole set of threads in DIDX Query at http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-biz/2010-November/thread.html.

Here is a copy of my second and final response on this topic.

From: Suzanne Bowen Date: Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:20 AMSubject: Re: DIDX Query (Dan Journo)To: [email protected]

Just finished studying every item regarding Dan's DIDX Query on whether or not buying 50 USA DIDs at $.15 per month would satisfy the 50 minimum DID quantity fee on DIDX. Follow-ups:

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