We are going to offer enterprises an opportunity for real instant collaboration and features that they can’t get from the regular phone network.

LignUp is one of the players in an industry value chain that increasingly differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. By exhibiting a focus on a networking industry model, open interfaces,...

If you look at the video quality, it will look damn good,

In the past, if you wanted to start a new phone company, you had to have the infrastructure and equipment. But now voice has become truly an application that can run on anything, instead of...

Replacing traditional phone service has been done. Now, it’s time to utilize the real power of IP communications by providing organizations with capabilities that they can customize for any application in any environment. This is...

is the triggering of a transformation where telecom merges with software applications.

They already have the networks. It would be an incremental investment.

The pulver 100 is the VoIP industry’s first and foremost award listing, and it continues to grow in significance as companies like Citel Technologies encourage more users to move to IP communications through affordable new...

In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost the company millions in lost discounts based on nonperformance. This is precisely why compliance with...

The sides in the communications policy wars will become more apparent, with Internet access providers on the one side and Internet application providers on the other.

We’re coming to a point in time when we can deliver better quality images over the Internet. All of a sudden, this idea of disruption is spreading beyond phone providers. If you think of American...

This turns the entire telecom industry picture on its head, and demonstrates that voice, presence, text messaging and other IP-based applications will be essential for the company of the future.

It’s not like we’re free riders. We’re actually paying somebody for Internet access too.

It’s not really a question of whether we should or we shouldn’t. It’s inevitable to me that communications goes to IP and stays there, until something better goes along.

But those communications are still synchronous and structured.

eBay obviously saw the cost of fighting a lawsuit better than the cost of paying the licensing fees.

Innovation continues to happen at the edge.

We’re asking to be levied at a time and place that makes sense.

If the hype was real, I could completely appreciate their arguments.

It was two years ago during spring VON. No one came.

The industry is in its infancy. We still have yet to see interoperability, and we still have yet to see the promise (of IP telephony). To regulate it at this point could stifle the growth.

In the ‘Disruptive Broadcasting’ space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have already seen the transformation of the computing and communications industry with respect to traditional telecom....

There’s been a tremendous outpouring of support

What most employees do not realize is that corporate rebates and incentives are enacted when the employee population reaches thresholds outlined in their vendor contracts.

It is time the Internet community started speaking for itself.

If all we’re doing is driving down price, we lose.

There are many reasons that someone may have been unable to participate in the directory assistance infrastructure. One scenario could be the consumer may have a VoIP line or cell phone and their carrier does...

As VoIP is now moving into the mainstream, service providers are beginning to face new challenges related to operational scalability – growing the business at the speed of the market. With a history of success...

H.R. 1542 will lead to higher prices for telecom consumers and even slower deployment of advanced services,

Look for enterprises to explore the benefits of federating their communication networks.

Major media and Internet companies will announce blended, transformational IP-based communications plays.

This trickle to these new providers will start to become a stream, and from a small stream to a larger stream. There’s no reason why they couldn’t take 20 to 30 percent market share, no...