Comments on: A Difficult 2007 for Competitive VoIP?

By: Milestone Monday « Connected Home 2 Go

Milestone Monday « Connected Home 2 Go — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:39:08 +0000

[...] surpassed two million digital voice customers last week, with nearly a quarter of those subscribers activating service in the fourth quarter of 2006 [...]

By: Sandeep Sahai

Sandeep Sahai — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:59:16 +0000

I guess and i believe that majority of consumer want to reduce there phone bill. And trend is moving toward VOIP. So just imagine there are 100 million customer and if Vonage is able to tap only 2% percent of that, then Vonage is having 2 million new customer.

One strength of Vonage is low operating cost then other provider. Secondly bundling with other feature is very good suggestion.

By: Visible.Mobi

Visible.Mobi — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:56:09 +0000

Its going to be tough year for VOIP companies, unless they start bundling their services with some other value added applications.

By: LG

LG — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:07:08 +0000

It’s becoming a tired catchphrase, but it’s no less true for its’ repetition: All voice is converging towards free. It’s just another service on your dumb pipe: It makes no more sense to pay a per-voice call charge than it does a per-website visit or a per-email fee. I don’t regard myself as a bleeding edge adopter, but these days about 85% of my calling is on-net (Either Skype or one of the zillion SIP networks that operate here in Oz). It’s a bit cumbersome (Prefix dialling for the SIP network, then the users’ own 86 digit SIP phone number), but I’m viewing that as a temporary aberration.

I’d say the days of PSTN arbitrage (which is really what the VOIP providers are) are coming to an end. I’m cheering FON and others on too, so that soon enough the days of GSM arbitrage will be over too.

By: Aswath Weblog

Aswath Weblog — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:48:36 +0000

Competitive VoIP CAN Strike Back…

In a recent post, Om Malik points out that competitive VoIP providers like Vonage and Sunrocket will face difficult times in light of cable operators increasing market share and the bundled offers from AT&T and Verizon. But there is a…

By: Matt_

Matt_ — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:31:01 +0000

I’ll probably drop my Vonage subscription as soon as Comcast offers the $99 triple play deal in my area .

By: Realtime Community | Unified Communications

Realtime Community | Unified Communications — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:23:12 +0000

Friday News of Note…

Here are a few stories that caught my eye as I'm catching up and getting back in the swing of things.A Difficult 2007 for Competitive VoIP?How much worse can things get for competitive voice service providers like Vonage? Quite a bit, especially if yo…

By: Steve Morsa

Steve Morsa — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:33:37 +0000

Vonage was a poor bet--for users and their stock-holders--from the git-go.

Now; as they find themselves even deeper in the communication wasteland that is independent VOIP; the only question left isn't whether BK is in their future…but when.

One can only multiply zeros for so long before the money runs out.

Let the stock-holder lawsuits begin…

By: joost

joost — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:14:48 +0000

intresting but not as intresting as a joost invite HINT HINT