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Last week’s Vonage received $105 million in funding, and elicited a huge reaction from the blogsphere. I have put together a small post on who said what.

Alistair: had hoped that a comment that the company was cash flow positive before customer acquisition cost might inspire a Sage of Omaha type put down. Here’s mine; [...]

The mobile virtual network operator concept has taken it on the chin in recent days because of some hiccups in the pending initial offerings of Metro PCS, and Virgin Mobile. But that might be temporary. Yesterday, Bouygues Telecom, a French mobile company teamed up with Vivendi/Universal Music and launched a new French mobile brand, Universal [...]

Looks like Verizon is dipping its toes in the fixed wireless waters. The experiment is happening in Grundy, Va. Verizon said the opportunity seemed perfect to try a small fixed wireless pilot using Alvarion BreezeAccess VL gear. Verizon will use unlicensed spectrum at 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz to connect homes and businesses [...]

Anan points to a post about Verizon Wireless 1xEV-DO antenna that works in Manhattan. He picked up some clues on agent Robert Kim’s according to Robert’s latest Weblog posting. Robert writes, “when you go to the Triborough area and get over a Gig/Sec reception… Yes… thats right.. you heard it here first… now bear in [...]

SBC and Sprint announced a Wi-Fi roaming agreement, which covers 2,300 SBC “hot spots” and five for Sprint. This is the latest of many deals which at the very least provide coverage, for corporate users. As one analyst says, Wi-Fi is a nice buzz-word, but still not a major revenue generator, at least for the [...]

Earlier this month I recommended the Motorola V710 to my boss, only to find later that the bluetooth was really only for hooking up a headset or perhaps use in-car handsfree system. Well that was a career ending move. What I find most offensive about this whole deal is the double talk from Verizon. Can’t [...]