Kudos to VOIP Supply's Garrett Smith for plainly explaining the truth about wifi SIP devices, and specifically why Vonage stopped offering them. You can't put it any more plainly than, "They suck." The really curious part is that VOIP Supply…
After reading Dan York's Disruptive Telephony Blog about Skype not seeing any demand for Skype interaction with SIP networks I made a point of logging just such a request via the support section of their web site. Here's what I…
I'm en route to Cambridge this evening for a week of work at Pixel Power's UK home office. I'm likely to be posting less frequently for the next few days. The hotel I've booked has wifi. It should be interesting…
If not, can I do it myself? There remain a great many ITSPs out there that still don't provide 911 or similar services. Those that target the residential marketplace, like AT&T (argh!), Verizon, Vonage, Broadvoice, Nuvio, etc have this all…
After two days of using these little phones around the house and office I’m feeling pretty good about them. They’re very small, which is potentially less than ideal, but so far it hasn’t been a problem. The batteries are Lithium-Ion and the talk time seems very good.
I used one with an old Panasonic headset for a series of conference calls today. I probably spent four hours on the line. The call quality was excellent. Volume on both the phone and the headset was good, which had been a problem on wifi phones I had tried previously.
Josh Bartlett over at CMPs No Jitter is again touching on Qos in a post called QoS Has Four Parts. It's a good summary of some of the mechanics underlying the implementation I describe in my series on VOIP over…