Comments on: Skype Now Means Business, Friends the SIP World

By: Skype Wants To Power Your Corporate Phone System

Skype Wants To Power Your Corporate Phone System — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:09:12 +0000

[...] has to go beyond what the original Skype Connect offered. When it first launched in beta last year, the service was looked upon by some as a simplified and lower-featured version of Skype for Asterisk and essentially just a way for Skype to offer low-cost calling minutes to corporate customers. Now [...]

By: Could SIP Save Skype? | Ian Bell

Could SIP Save Skype? | Ian Bell — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:33:59 +0000

[...] outside of eBay. Indeed, many VoIP pundits insist that Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) could be Skype’s savior. But while it’s true that technologies like SIP and its stepchild XMPP achieve a lot of the same [...]

By: How Skype Plans to Dominate Business Telephony

How Skype Plans to Dominate Business Telephony — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:49:08 +0000

[...] for SIP was announced in March 2009 and was criticized by competitors and others for being mostly vaporware and an ill-conceived [...]

By: Skype and Business Telephony Domination

Skype and Business Telephony Domination — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:41:53 +0000

[...] for SIP was announced in March 2009 and was criticized by competitors and others for being mostly vaporware and an ill-conveived [...]

By: Skype Taps ShoreTel for Enterprise Play

Skype Taps ShoreTel for Enterprise Play — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:34:40 +0000

[...] Unified Communications (UC) provider ShoreTel Inc. as the first partner for its enterprise-focused Skype-for-SIP offering. The companies announced a deal today to allow ShoreTel’s 11,000 customers to register for [...]

By: Tim Panton

Tim Panton — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:15:38 +0000

Markus, contact me and we can set that up for you using Skype for Asterisk, now that it is out of beta.

By: Tim Panton

Tim Panton — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:09:58 +0000

The price for Skype for Asterisk has been announced – $66 per channel.
So the $1000 in the table – would represent 15 channels.

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:00:47 +0000

Smaller companies have increasingly started to use Skype for corporate purposes. We use Skype a lot for international sales and internal collaboration for teams scattered across Asia and South America. In fact, we had submitted this story to Skype, and won their Skype for Business Award for it.

By: idynamics

idynamics — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:29:54 +0000

VoiceGear Connect gateways for Skype from IndustryDynamics can help you take advantage of Skype in a business environment with any type of PBX system. All VoiceGear Connect gateways are integrated appliances which can work with any Analog, Digital or VoIP phone system. You can simply connect the gateway to your on-premise PBX system and instantly enable all office phones for Skype calling. VoiceGear doesn't have any monthly fees (other than cost of Skype calls) and you can even accept calls from your Skype contacts or call them directly on their Skype.

By: Lisha Sterling

Lisha Sterling — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:08:05 +0000

You can add existing Skype accounts to business control panels in Skype. I did just that when i set up a family “business” to manage the Skype accounts of my kids who are each in different parts of the planet at the moment.

It seems annoying to me that they feel the need to make attaching Skype to Asterisk cost anything (besides tech time). Seriously, it makes more sense to just encourage businesses to go ahead and connect and use Skype exclusively for all their intl outgoing phone calls and make the money off of that.

By: VoIP Crash Course - Part 2 « Think VoIP

VoIP Crash Course - Part 2 « Think VoIP — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:08:01 +0000

[...] little use for us beyond straight forward saving on international calls. This might change soon – Skype just started with their effort on first integration modules that will change the situation, but it’s still [...]

By: ouch

ouch — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:50:43 +0000

@ Pat Phelan’s remarks, which have some well-timed but perhaps not intentioned irony built in

It seems that Maxroam itself is also becoming what it set out to disrupt, with higher roaming fees in places than the main networks, for example even in the EU there are call rates of 98 cents or more to a mobile of the visited country, or 83 cents or more to a mobile of one’s home country. These are close to double the Eurotariff that the regulators worked so hard for.

And Maxroam’s upgrades have been taking over 3 weeks so far, with some customers still unable to use the original DIDs or get their previous credit transferred to the new Belgian SIM

Please get your own act sorted before exercising your wisdom on others

By: Skype on SIP: More Fallout from the Announcement | Voice on the Web

Skype on SIP: More Fallout from the Announcement | Voice on the Web — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:30:21 +0000

[...] Skype Now Means Business, Friends The SIP World (gigaom.com) [...]

By: Skype for iPhone to Be Released as Early as Next Week - Geekinc.org

Skype for iPhone to Be Released as Early as Next Week - Geekinc.org — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:04:51 +0000

[...] among the Skype faithful. In the meantime, I think Skype is slowly flexing its muscles and swatting away little VoIP players with some of its recent [...]

By: Skype for iPhone to Be Released as Early as Next Week

Skype for iPhone to Be Released as Early as Next Week — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:01:38 +0000

[...] traction among the Skype faithful. In the meantime, I think Skype is slowly flexing its muscles and swatting away little VoIP players with some of it recent its moves. [...]

By: Ralph Doncaster

Ralph Doncaster — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:33:53 +0000

This reminds me of the click-to-call service that Nortel & others were pushing several years ago. At least that worked with a normal phone (i.e. no special software required). Giving customers the ability to call your business through skype is a cute idea, but I think most customers would still just dial company’s 1-800 number instead.

I can see techie types using it if wideband is supported, but that’s about it…