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Are We Still Talking About the Phone?
It is still about the phone. Cell companies are stuck. After years of leveraged cool handsets to drive sales, cellcos are stuck as hardware providers - subsidized hardware too. Cellcos aren't alone. VoIP providers are stuck in the hardware space...
No Need to Be a CLEC
Up until the FCC's test plan today, VoIP Providers had to rely on CLEC's to get phone numbers. "The FCC has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on direct access to telephone numbers for VoIP providers, a process that...
How Good is BYOB VoIP?
One of my coaching clients has had some issues with BYOB (bring your own broadband) ITSP's (VoIP providers) over the last couple of months. I have too. My Aastra IP phone died and I moved to an ATA, which has...
CLEC Frustration Part II
One reason that the ILEC’s have been frustrated with CLEC’s and spend so much effort frustrating their orders is due to the Lack of Value that the CLEC’s — in general — bring to the market place.Resellers, Rebillers, switchless, UNE-P,...
VoIP Security Best Practices
There has been much talk lately about VoIP security.The FCC has a page to warn consumers and businesses alike about Voicemail hacks. (The FCC calls it Voice Mail Fraud but it’s really about hacking the voicemail system to enable toll...
Dash CS to Bandwidth.com
Image via Wikipedia DASH Carrier Services, a provider of E-911 and other services to the ITSP sector, was acquired by Bandwidth.com. Interestingly, Bandwidth.com used to be the provider of VoIP origination and termination services for many VoIP providers, but...
VoIP Consolidation Well Underway
There's been some M&A among VoIP Providers this year but there is more on the horizon. CLEC's are looking to get in the game with an acquisition. Indeed EarthLink did just that with its quiet acquisition of STS Telecom, a...
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...
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...
What to Ask Your Prospective VoIP Provider
If you are a VAR or telecom agent about to pick out a strategic partner to be the VoIP Provider that you work with, here are some things to ask the execs.Are you a CLEC? It isn’t a requirement to...
CommPartners BK
The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that CommPartners has filed bankruptcy protection (against Ma Bell). "The filings were made in Nevada bankruptcy court by Las Vegas-based companies CommPartners Holding Corp., CommPartners Carrier Services Corp., CommPartners Network Services LLC and CommPartners...
Unbelievable Response
Let's say that you are ITSP who provides white label Hosted PBX to service providers. Let's say you have issues delivering your service to that service provider. The issues are persistent. The service provider partner loses customers as a result....
VoIP Is Taking Off
The financial activity in the ITSP sector that I am seeing leads me to believe that the ITSP sector is taking off.Cypress buying up Reignmaker assets.Telesphere got $15M for expansion.XCast collecting a $2.7M investment.Forbes publishes an article titled The Value...
Why HD Voice?
Main reason to go to HD Voice for ITSP's? In the battle with CLEC's and ILEC's, HD Voice could be the differentiators. Between low quality VoIP calls and the wonders of 8.5K on cellular calls, HD calls woul dbe music...
The Ultimate Hosted VoIP Service
What's the perfect VoIP Service?I have seen so many VoIP Providers, I can't keep track. But that also means that the VoIP providers are not doing a very good job of Messaging, Positioning and Differentiating their offerings.The only VoIP provider...
