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| Peter Radizeski of RAD-INFO, Inc. talking telecom, Cloud, VoIP, CLEC, and The Channel.

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Rulings on VoIP All Over the Place

April 13, 2011

So we have a ruling against MagicJack and Ymax that AT&T won that supposedly will just require some tariff changes for MagicJack to be back in the game - collecting its $5M.  There was also a VoIP traffic ruling against PAETEC in favor of CommPartners that basically said that an all-VoIP stream was not subject to access fees, which might be the same ruling in this case.

The FCC held a meeting about Inter-Carrier Comp last week. No ruling or order followed. Why would it?

Posted in FCC, sip trunking, telco, voip
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Call Us Customer Experience

April 11, 2011




During our second conversation with Dean Parker, CEO of Callis, we talk about the exciting things happening at this Mobile, Alabama based Cloud Communications company, including the hiring of a new CTO from Deltacom and the release of a new cloud offering. Growth is coming from delivering apps, especially Microsoft, to the target marketplace. Yet the key for Parker's company may just be the Customer Experience - and focusing on that.
Posted in apps, cloud computing, hosted uc, telecommunications, unified communications, voip
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VARs are Replacing Agents

April 3, 2011

In an article in Channel Partners magazine, Master Agents discuss how all their future growth will come from VAR's. Carriers are chasing VAR's for any growth in Channel numbers. Where does that leave the Agents?

Well, Agents can partner with VAR's to be the telecom provisioning department. Or Agents can start getting uncomfortable or irrelevant.

Exam the fact that most Agents do not want to sell cellular.



Posted in Internet, PBX, TCA, VAR, agents, apps, broadband, cableco, cellular, channel, cloud computing, commissions, conferences, sales and selling, sip trunking, training, voip

Security VoIP and Otherwise

April 2, 2011

There are certainly security risks with VoIP. (And we will get to that). But let us not forget that TDM voice is easy to hack too. A pair of alligator clips and people can dial from your line or listen in.

Posted in security, voip, wi-fi, wireline
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Marketing Hosted PBX with Kimber

March 30, 2011



In this podcast, Kimber McCafferty, VP of Communications for Nexogy and I take 17 minutes to discuss marketing Hosted PBX.

Posted in Marketing, PBX, hosted uc, voip

A VAR's View from the Cloud

March 30, 2011



Great conversation with Dan Williams of Xspedeus, a VAR (value-added reseller) who was demonstrating his white label VoIP service at SMB Nation in Vegas.  We talk about picking a cloud provider. Give it a listen.
Posted in CLEC, VAR, channel, cloud computing, data center, hosted uc, voip

The Hosted UC Script

February 28, 2011

I'm at Enterprise Connect (formerly VoiceCon) where the talk is all about CLOUD. (Surprise!) Cloud Communications from Cisco, Avaya, Shoretel (Untangling Complexity), Microsoft Lync, Sprint, IBM, Smoothstone, XO and Verizon. I didn't see a MITEL booth but at least 5 MITEL folks are speaking. Dan York is here.
Posted in hosted uc, telecommunications, unified communications, voip, xo

Dash CS to Bandwidth.com

February 28, 2011

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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 since gaining the Google Voice contract has lost many customers due to a lack of support. To be fair, if you have one ivory whale like GV, and get another (Verizon), the rest of the pack are just minnows. Now they will get those minnows back with the purchase of DASH.

Already my phone is ringing with questions about replacements for DASH, since providers that left BW don't want to go back.

Andy thinks this means an IPO coming for Bandwidth.com.



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VoIP Consolidation Well Underway

February 22, 2011

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 former UNE-P then Sylantro shop in South Florida (to go with its purchase of Deltacom).

Other ITSP's are actively seeking an acquisition or hoping one will come along.

Posted in CLEC, Marketing, PBX, cableco, hosted uc, mergers, sales and selling, telecommunications, unified communications, vc, voip

Google Sued by VoIP

February 17, 2011

VoIP Inc. has sued Google over Click-to-Call patents. The Reuters story is here. Apparently, VoIP Inc. tried to sue Google over trade secrets before, when VoIP Inc. was basic defunct, having shut down its VoIP operations and laying off all employees. At that time, investors petitioned for a bankruptcy liquidation (according to the BizJournal). In 2009, the SEC revoked thier registration (so no longer public, I think). Interesting that Frontier owns a few patents and is suing Google as well. 
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