http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:25:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-954781 Telephony-as-a-Service Platform Company Sabase Bolo Acquires Jaxtr | Tea Break Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:28:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-954781 [...] why. While formative web voice companies like Skype have gone on to make money, many others have struggled. In Jaxtr’s case, it had raised more than $20 million, gained some 10 million users, but wasn’t [...] [...] why. While formative web voice companies like Skype have gone on to make money, many others have struggled. In Jaxtr’s case, it had raised more than $20 million, gained some 10 million users, but wasn’t [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-954782 Telephony-as-a-Service Platform Company Sabase Bolo Acquires Jaxtr | Tea Break Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:28:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-954782 [...] why. While formative web voice companies like Skype have gone on to make money, many others have struggled. In Jaxtr’s case, it had raised more than $20 million, gained some 10 million users, but wasn’t [...] [...] why. While formative web voice companies like Skype have gone on to make money, many others have struggled. In Jaxtr’s case, it had raised more than $20 million, gained some 10 million users, but wasn’t [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-954053 Jaxtr acquisition part of Sabse’s plan to offer cheap global phone service | TechDozer Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:00:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-954053 [...] why. While formative web voice companies like Skype have gone on to make money, many others have struggled. In Jaxtr’s case, it had raised more than $20 million, gained some 10 million users, but [...] [...] why. While formative web voice companies like Skype have gone on to make money, many others have struggled. In Jaxtr’s case, it had raised more than $20 million, gained some 10 million users, but [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-938454 New GIPS Customer Exemplifies The Voice Engine Market Opportunity | Voice on the Web Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:03:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-938454 [...] VoIP: Dead or Alive? (gigaom.com) [...] [...] VoIP: Dead or Alive? (gigaom.com) [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-927509 » VoIP Lives! Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:17:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-927509 [...] beginning of the year it was difficult to find any news about VoIP without some reference to the speculation that “VoIP is dead.” IN-stat has just released a new market research report indicating that the [...] [...] beginning of the year it was difficult to find any news about VoIP without some reference to the speculation that “VoIP is dead.” IN-stat has just released a new market research report indicating that the [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-927440 Comment on VoIP: Dead or Alive? by VoIP Dead or Alive? | Business … | Arm Voip Providers Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:40:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-927440 [...] See the original post: Comment on VoIP: Dead or Alive? by VoIP Dead or Alive? | Business … [...] [...] See the original post: Comment on VoIP: Dead or Alive? by VoIP Dead or Alive? | Business … [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-927382 VoIP Dead or Alive? | Business VoIP Resource Blog Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:36:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-927382 [...] Here is a link to a well written analysis of “is VoIP Dead or Alive” [...] [...] Here is a link to a well written analysis of “is VoIP Dead or Alive” [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-924838 Beau Bennett Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:08:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-924838 My company tried Skype and Vonage and they both sucked. Faxes were a nightmare. We recently switched to a LD company called COMPOINT and found nirvana. or as close to it as we can get. Apparently COMPOINT, like most LD companies all use the the internet backbones for voice traffic anyway. COMPOINT is different in that there were no mo. fees, no pins to dial, no equipment to buy, we kept our same phone numbers, and besides the very low rates, they bill only in one (1) second increments. Literally everybody else rounds up calls, especially international calls. The kicker for us was that we are also able to make cell phone calls at the same rates with the same one second billing. (cell calls do require a pin to get the low rates however) The bottom line for us is that our total LD charges are now averaging a pitifully low $22 to $28 per month. In comparison our old AT&T bill was $350 to $400 mo. and Skype was costing us almost $50 mo. For business, especially International calls VoIP is not quite there yet and not cost efficient. My company tried Skype and Vonage and they both sucked. Faxes were a nightmare. We recently switched to a LD company called COMPOINT and found nirvana. or as close to it as we can get. Apparently COMPOINT, like most LD companies all use the the internet backbones for voice traffic anyway. COMPOINT is different in that there were no mo. fees, no pins to dial, no equipment to buy, we kept our same phone numbers, and besides the very low rates, they bill only in one (1) second increments. Literally everybody else rounds up calls, especially international calls. The kicker for us was that we are also able to make cell phone calls at the same rates with the same one second billing. (cell calls do require a pin to get the low rates however) The bottom line for us is that our total LD charges are now averaging a pitifully low $22 to $28 per month. In comparison our old AT&T bill was $350 to $400 mo. and Skype was costing us almost $50 mo. For business, especially International calls VoIP is not quite there yet and not cost efficient.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-923409 Mobile VoIP Startups Looking Beyond Cheap Calls | Telecom Update Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:08:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-923409 [...] These startups are realizing that in order to make real money they would need to create billions of minutes in calls to off-net services. It is a game only the biggest -– Skype, for instance –- can play. And even then, making profits isn’t all that easy. More than a few startups have died trying to play the low-margin minutes game. (Related post: VoIP – Dead or Alive?) [...] [...] These startups are realizing that in order to make real money they would need to create billions of minutes in calls to off-net services. It is a game only the biggest -– Skype, for instance –- can play. And even then, making profits isn’t all that easy. More than a few startups have died trying to play the low-margin minutes game. (Related post: VoIP – Dead or Alive?) [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-923271 Itaquera » Mobile VoIP: para iniciantes Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:15:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-923271 [...] Estas iniciativas estão percebendo que, no intuito de fazer dinheiro que seria necessário para criar milhares de milhões de minutos de chamadas para serviços off-net. É um jogo só, o maior - o Skype, por exemplo - pode desempenhar. E mesmo assim, todos os lucros não é assim tão fácil. Mais do que alguns iniciantes tenham morrido tentando reproduzir a baixa margem minutos jogo. (Pós Relacionadas: VoIP - Dead or Alive?) [...] [...] Estas iniciativas estão percebendo que, no intuito de fazer dinheiro que seria necessário para criar milhares de milhões de minutos de chamadas para serviços off-net. É um jogo só, o maior – o Skype, por exemplo – pode desempenhar. E mesmo assim, todos os lucros não é assim tão fácil. Mais do que alguns iniciantes tenham morrido tentando reproduzir a baixa margem minutos jogo. (Pós Relacionadas: VoIP – Dead or Alive?) [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-922653 seamlessenterprise.com » Blog Archive » VoIP is More than Plumbing Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:08:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-922653 [...] the VoIP-is-Dead Debate, but I’d like to focus on one comment in Om Malik’s original GigaOM posting quoting Alec Saunders on VoIP. Saunders characterized VoIP this way: “Voice over IP is just a [...] [...] the VoIP-is-Dead Debate, but I’d like to focus on one comment in Om Malik’s original GigaOM posting quoting Alec Saunders on VoIP. Saunders characterized VoIP this way: “Voice over IP is just a [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-922379 seamlessenterprise.com » Blog Archive » VoIP’s Death Debate is Missing the Point Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:51:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-922379 [...] The Year that VoIP died on his blog, which lead to other posts, including a post by Om Malik on his GigaOM blog. Each has presented some interesting points though it’s a debate that I feel is missing the [...] [...] The Year that VoIP died on his blog, which lead to other posts, including a post by Om Malik on his GigaOM blog. Each has presented some interesting points though it’s a debate that I feel is missing the [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-922047 Andy Green Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:35:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-922047 The discussion about whether VoIP is dead sounds to me very much like the arguments over Nick Carr's "IT Doesn't Matter" thesis. And some of the same criticism leveled against Carr hold here as well. Computer technology is different than infrastructure plumbing. In Carr's original HBR article, he sited railroads and electricity as commodity technologies towards which IT is heading. Well, computers (and communications) with is astonishing price performance is not nearly at the point where it has reached diminishing returns. VoIP is alive, it still matters, and smart companies will continue to find differentiation by taking advantage of continuing technology improvements. The discussion about whether VoIP is dead sounds to me very much like the arguments over Nick Carr’s “IT Doesn’t Matter” thesis. And some of the same criticism leveled against Carr hold here as well. Computer technology is different than infrastructure plumbing. In Carr’s original HBR article, he sited railroads and electricity as commodity technologies towards which IT is heading. Well, computers (and communications) with is astonishing price performance is not nearly at the point where it has reached diminishing returns. VoIP is alive, it still matters, and smart companies will continue to find differentiation by taking advantage of continuing technology improvements.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-921215 John Scofield Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:03:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-921215 Voip is not dead, it just changed... I can't imagine any international business without VOIP. It can became more cheaper but it can't die. Voip is not dead, it just changed… I can’t imagine any international business without VOIP. It can became more cheaper but it can’t die.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-920955 Manuel Vexler Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:12:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-920955 It is a very interesting question...howver let's first agree on what we define as VoIP. If to follow just the name, it means voice over Internet. If we accept that definition, VoIP has multiplied and mutated creating a large gene pool which is not only reserved to Enterprise and Unified Communications (UC), but to mobile and fixed consumer communications. It is true that the name of VoIP is no longer used in marketing, however we can call it Skype, AND digital voice, AND Vonage, AND UC, AND LTE, AND SIP Trunking, AND IMS, AND PacketCable x.0, AND NGN AND IP Centrex/PBX. Just wait, there is more - VoIP is just starting to catch the interest of call centers and P2P VoIP is still in it infancy (and we expect a lot from this baby!). So the rumors about VoIP death are unfounded. At the end VoIP will die only when humans will not talk anymore (either use telepathy, or take a collective vow of silence) or someone invents another form of communications (in the last 150 years we had wires, circuit and packet switched). Let's see what will be the first to kill VoIP (any bets?) It is a very interesting question…howver let’s first agree on what we define as VoIP. If to follow just the name, it means voice over Internet. If we accept that definition, VoIP has multiplied and mutated creating a large gene pool which is not only reserved to Enterprise and Unified Communications (UC), but to mobile and fixed consumer communications. It is true that the name of VoIP is no longer used in marketing, however we can call it Skype, AND digital voice, AND Vonage, AND UC, AND LTE, AND SIP Trunking, AND IMS, AND PacketCable x.0, AND NGN AND IP Centrex/PBX. Just wait, there is more – VoIP is just starting to catch the interest of call centers and P2P VoIP is still in it infancy (and we expect a lot from this baby!). So the rumors about VoIP death are unfounded. At the end VoIP will die only when humans will not talk anymore (either use telepathy, or take a collective vow of silence) or someone invents another form of communications (in the last 150 years we had wires, circuit and packet switched). Let’s see what will be the first to kill VoIP (any bets?)

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/01/01/voip-dead-or-alive/#comment-920650 Revolutionary Information Infrastructure Systems » Blog Archive » Define "VoIP" - and then we can debate whether it is dead! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:02:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=34403#comment-920650 [...] Saunders part 1 and part 2, Jon Arnold, Andy Abramson, Ken Camp, Jeff Pulver part 1 and part 2, Om Malik, Shidan Gouran, Ted Wallingford, Dameon Welch-Abernathy (PhoneBoy), Rich Tehrani and a zillion [...] [...] Saunders part 1 and part 2, Jon Arnold, Andy Abramson, Ken Camp, Jeff Pulver part 1 and part 2, Om Malik, Shidan Gouran, Ted Wallingford, Dameon Welch-Abernathy (PhoneBoy), Rich Tehrani and a zillion [...]

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