Telephone

Skype Micropayment

September 9, 2005

Aswath also points out that the feature set Skype is implementing looks suspiciously like Pulver’s FWD features from a few years ago.  Two points: Skype has already implemented a micropayment system. When you buy Skype credit, and you can spend it on minutes, DIDs, voicemail, or downloadable goodies to go with your Skype client. With this announcement, they are just [...]

Read the full article →

Criticism of the Skype Voice Services Business Model

September 8, 2005

Bill Campbell over on Skype Journal is very critical of the Skype Voice Services business model.  It’s a consequence of not owning your own platform and API, as I said earlier today.  Everyone has to get paid!  Now, having said that, giving up 70% of your revenue to the distribution channel, in exchange for the [...]

Read the full article →

Skype Voice Services: First Done by Pulver

September 8, 2005

Here is an interesting press release: Freeworld Dialup and Voxeo Announce Innovative Developer Solutions for SIP.  Apparently Voxeo and Tellme did deals with Pulver’s Freeworld Dialup in 2003 that are just like the Skype deal they’ve done.  As usual, Jeff is ahead of the pack.

Read the full article →

Abramson on Skype Voice Services

September 8, 2005

Andy’s point of view is interesting.  He’s looking at how the Skype announcement affects content providers –> radio, media companies like Disney, and so on, as opposed to their platform strategy.  Certainly with 160 million downloads, and a regular audience of more than 30 million users, Skype has just become one of the larger media [...]

Read the full article →

Skype Announces Voice Services Program

September 8, 2005

This morning, Skype announced their new Voice Services Program.  Skype has partnered with three VoiceXML platform providers: Tellme, VoxBuilder and Voxeo, giving content providers the ability to host and bill for that content on the Skype Network.  Services can be free, or paid for, at the developers discretion. This is a fascinating development. First, Skype [...]

Read the full article →

ILECs and the Innovators Dilemma

May 24, 2005

Ron Gruia wrote a comment to my May 13th posting about the CRTC ruling, way back when I wrote the actual post.  It got trapped in WordPress’ authorization mechanism, for which I apologize Ron.  I didn’t even realize that it was there until today! Ron’s assertion is that price is an element of competition, and the [...]

Read the full article →

VoIP Speed Ahead

September 20, 2003

It’s been an interesting day around here.  I have been using the Packet8 service for some time.  The quality on Packet8 is pretty good, although I did dig into it and change the code from G.723 to G.711 to boost the quality somewhat.  I have a feeling my old and funky firewall gets in the [...]

Read the full article →

Orange SPV

September 8, 2003

A couple of days ago one of these appeared in the courier parcel.  The SPV is a GSM phone running the Windows Smartphone software from Microsoft.  Over five years in the making, in my opinion this thing is a darn good product.  It synchronizes with my calendar, email, and contacts (I’ve got over 1300 contacts [...]

Read the full article →

Next Entries →

Alec on LinkedIn Alec on Twitter Alec on Facebook Calliflower on Youtube RSS Feed Contact me