December 2003

Net2Phone hammered

December 10, 2003

From CNET.  Ailing calling-card business hurts Net2Phone. The Internet telephone company’s first-quarter revenue drops partly because of its quicker-than-expected exit from an unprofitable calling-card business. Not unexpected.  The tables below are created from their financials.  This one shows their mix from 2002 to 2003.  The calling card business cratered, true.  But so did the wholesale long distance [...]

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December 9, 2003

AP Story on Skype Found via the Yahoo News search RSS feed. AP Finds Skype to Have Some Shortcomings (AP). It’s the moneysaving potential that’s likely to draw your attention to Skype, the Internet phone software whose creators are bent on displacing the POTS, or plain old telephone system.   

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December 8, 2003

And so it begins… VoIP’s Big Week was last week.  Not only was there the FCC meetings, but also the NYSSA had a large scale roundup of VoIP companies for securities analysts at the Harvard Club in NY City, and… wonder of all wonders I ran into Jeff Pulver in a coffee shop in Toronto. So [...]

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December 3, 2003

Words fail me… The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. Leonard Nimoy sings Bilbo Baggins. Full-video. Courtesy of Randy at iBLOGthere4iM.   

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December 1, 2003

Want to know what’s going on at the FCC VoIP forum today? Go to this link.  Jeffrey Citron’s comments were very good, and Gregg Vanderheiden, speaking on behalf individuals with disabilities, also offered some tantalizing glimpses of what might be possible. Everyone seems to be saying “look, we’re complying, no need to regulate us”.  Interestingly, [...]

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