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Smoothstone Has Patience with Sprint

Sprint finally lands a partner in its Mobile Convergence system. After spending much of 2010 talking with Sprint about the MVNO and Integration options, I applaud the patience of Smoothstone, which announced today the availability of Smoothstone’s cloud-based voice solutions...

UC is on the Rise: No Kidding

Image via Wikipedia All the trends, lists, predictions are out now. Of course, UC is will see record growth and Cloud Computing too. No kidding! They are both in infancy (relatively speaking), so there is nowhere to go but...

Net-heads Grab the Gold Ring

Over on Voyces Larry Lisser blogs about 4 communications startups that received funding in 4Q2010. (Pertinent because Communications Startup Camp is in less than a month on Feb. 3 at ITEXPO!) What made the story stand out for me is...

Broadsoft's Second Offering

Broadsoft investors are cashing out to the tune of 4.8 million shares to be priced at $22 according to TradingMarkets.com. Today, BSFT is trading at $26.In other news, Tampa-based Microsoft partner, Tribridge bought Mercatus Group, a health care provider practice...

Chat With JCurve About 2011

Eli Johnson, Business Development Manager at J-Curve Technologies, chats with me for about 13 minutes about Broadsoft Connections 2010, Hosted UC and the obstacles that Cloud Communications providers face in the new year.J-Curve offers Hosted PBX providers an outsourced customer...

What's It Take to be a VoIP Winner?

What does it take to run a successful VoIP services company? According to Report Linker, “the biggest VoIP providers are ostensibly run-of-the-mill telecom companies. This means smaller providers must innovate and take the role of pioneers whose marketing strategy doesn’t...

Accolades

Since some folks think I don’t post any positive stuff, today’s post is filled with accolades. Here are some companies that deserve a gold star.For the sixth consecutive year VoIP Supply has been named one of the Top 100 Private...

UC Won't Last

I started working on a post last week I titled UC Won’t Work. Today, there’s a topic abuzz about how UC is a scam.Speaking during a debate on unifiec communications at the recent Gartner Symposium in Sydney, analyst, Nick Jones,...

A New Case of Huh?

So back in July, a client asked me to migrate 14 POTS lines from one location to a new office as well as take them back from a CLEC. The CLEC was a rebiller (non-facilities based) and kind of messed...

What Strategy Will Be Used?

So PAETEC announced the 48x in the IP Simple Bundle. It’s an Allworx PBX. An interesting strategy to roll out a premise based PBX at a time when everyone is rolling out a hosted solution, even Avaya and MITEL.Come 2Q...

Podcast with Jon Arnold on Hosted UC

Jon Arnold, fellow blogger at TMC, talks with me about Metaswitch, Broadsoft, IBM and the Hosted UC space with some Cloud talk....

My Take on Stocks

So “BroadSoft Inc.(BSFT) shares climbed 43% after the voice-enabling software company reported third-quarter earnings that exceeded estimates,” according to MarketWatch. Total revenue increased 22% year-to-year to $22.3 million; up 13% from the second quarter of 2010. License revenue increased 27%...

Big Challenge Selling Hosted PBX

On LinkedIn (in the Hosted PBX group), the question was asked, “What’s the biggest challenge you face selling your solution to end users and/or channel partners?” Here are some of the answers.Can the end user trust the service delivery of...

You Can't Be All Things to All People

This morning Seth Godin blogs about alienating the 2%. In short, you can’t please everyone. There’s more money in trying to please a targeted core. In cliche, You can’t please everyone.But boy do companies try. It’s difficult to sell wholesale...

Geckotech Acquired by M5

M6 powered Geckotech out of Chicago was acquired by VoIP pioneer M5 Networks. M5 is based in New York City with offices in Chicago (at least in 2008 when I was working their).Geckotech made the 2009 and 2010 INC 5000...

The Cloud is For Agents, too

Khali Henderson of Phone+ and I are doing a webinar tomorrow for agents at TCA on The Cloud. One of the TCA Board Members, Emmet Tydings, President of AB&T Telecom, sent me this response:“Voice is just another application in an...

M6 Migration

Apparently, this article produced a small bruha at Broadsoft Connections 2010 this week. The service providers on M6 have a lot at stake - like all their customers. The M6 user group is a fairly vocal contigent as well. It's a...

Add Some Skinny to Broadworks

Genband M6 platform is a softswitch that allows service providers to utilize Cisco IP phones running Skinny. The problem has been that Broadsoft, which bought Genband's M6 platform, has completed the process of adding the M6 feature set to the...

When the Cable Giants Wake

The MSO’s will be coming strong into Hosted UC next year. Four of the top 5 MSO’s will be rolling out Business Hosted UC services. By the time they come to market the current crop of ITSP (Hosted VoIP Providers)...

Broadvox and Cypress: What Now?

Broadvox and Cypress acknowledged the merger rumors on Thursday, announcing that they were still working out the details of the merger. (TMC broke the story here). Both companies wanted to assure customers that it will be business as usual.Executives told...

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