Comments on: The Real Truth About VoIP Sales http://gigaom.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:58:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Thought Leadership http://gigaom.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102628 Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:01:54 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102628 Outstanding Questions on VoIP

Here is what is wrong with current thinking on VoIP…

]]> By: The CIO Weblog http://gigaom.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102627 Fri, 06 May 2005 06:13:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102627 VOIP NEWS

In earlier posts here and here i spoke about skype, not its vonages ture, Vonage will close a $200 million round led by Bain Capital with participation from the company’s management and previous investors 3i Group, New Enterprise Associates, Meritech…

]]> By: Chuck http://gigaom.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102626 Thu, 05 May 2005 21:29:30 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102626 For what it’s worth, it would look to me that Xten is doing better than your poposed average as just a softphone builder. Xten builds softphones and SDKs, they have 35 people and by the looks of their financials should be cash-flow positive this quarter [approx $4M for the year] which just ended. FYI, they just signed Yahoo!, also in their financials.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102625 Thu, 05 May 2005 21:04:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102625 i guess, that’s one way of looking at it…. but i think this is all quite based on best case guess scenario and well we can’t take it that seriously, except as an indicator of general direction of the market place

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102624 Thu, 05 May 2005 20:51:07 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102624 What I want to know is how they can forecast service revenue? Aren’t both MOUs and cost per MOU things highly subject to change? Does anyone beleive in such studies other than those trying to get money for their VoIP compnay?

]]> By: Daryl http://gigaom.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102623 Thu, 05 May 2005 20:01:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102623 The trend has been away from hosted IP Centrex to IP/VoIP trunking. Look at Covad and Level 3.

I Cbeyond is a good example of IP trunking service.

From what I have seen, most analyst firms lump IP trunking and IP Centrex into the common category of hosted IP services.

]]> By: lickedcat http://gigaom.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102622 Thu, 05 May 2005 14:16:06 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/05/the-real-truth-about-voip-sales/#comment-102622 Om, what is the definition of business “hosted” IP services. Is this IP Centrex, such as a S.P. hosting centrex features off their centralized softswitch?

Do you see a market in IP/VoIP trunking, where a business gets their own IP PBX and they just need a S.P. to terminate their LD and VOIP calls?

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