Tag Archives: voip

04/07/2008 Posted in Business, IT, Society 1 Comment

20% of VoIP to be via softphone?

By Ben Kepes

GigaOm posted about his VoIP experience and the fact that Jajah has started offering call termination, billing and other such services other. A sentence at the end of his post caught my eye; A Frost & Sullivan report says that as a percentage of total IP-telephone market soft phones share

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18/06/2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy 3 Comments

Skype 4.0 beta

By Ben Kepes

Skype is rolling out a beta version of its newest software and it marks a distinct change in tack for the company. Skype’s formative days were centred around voice communications, video functionality had been something of a bolt on to the UI. The new version is all about communication, not

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29/05/2008 Posted in IT, New Zealand 7 Comments

This is madness (on VoIP)…

By Ben Kepes

So I decided that, being a bit of an early adopter, a move to naked DSL with VoIP was in order. I dutifully purchased my PAP2T (to convert VoIP to a standard phone) and filled in my application form for WorldxChange’s fusion service (Naked DSL, VoIP combo for $70/month). Horrors

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07/05/2008 Posted in IT, Strategy 4 Comments

Can Telco symbiosis beat Skype?

By The Unreasonablemen

(A cross posting from unreasonablemen.net) A couple of posts today (Om Malik and a follow up on Skype Journal) discuss a rumoured Skype killing application that is allegedly being planned for. It seems that some of the Telco heavyweights want to build a VoIP based P2P calling service in order

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21/04/2008 Posted in IT, New business, New Zealand 1 Comment

Why POTS isn’t dead….

By Ben Kepes

POTS is telco industry talk for Plain Old Telephone Service – in other words the boring old analogue phone that works on those rusty bits of copper wire coming into your place (and swinging in the breeze no doubt). In my office we’ve moved to a VoIP world, whereby our

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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