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Packet8 maker and marketer 8×8 reports that it now has more than 6,000 U.S.-based business customers.
Trend lines seem to point to a diversification of the business beyond increasingly discounted residential service, to higher-margin business service.
The lesson, at least to me, is that an appropriate message to business users- backed up with dependable products, can [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on February 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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I've been having a little fun with alexaholic, a type of Alexa mash-up that lets you compare estimated page view totals and traffic patterns for several websites over specific lengths of time.
Let's compare relative page view rankings for Skype, Vonage, Packet 8, Gizmo Project and SunRocket site views over a six month period, and then [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on November 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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Last week, while I was busy moving, fellow blogger Tom Keating put up an exceedingly thoughtful post comparing pure VoIP- as offered by the likes of Vonage, Packet8, SunRocket and others- vs. telephone and cable VoIP.Tom framed his argument by mapping back to a VoIP.com assertion that since telcos and cable tend to charge more [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on August 23rd, 2006 with no comments.
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This is going to sound strange and quite likely improbable, but I have information that may indicate that Skype could be considering dropping the equivalent of a nuclear bomb on the VoIP world. I am referring to free outbound calling anywhere in the world. Not only between Skype users, but from Skype users [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on July 21st, 2006 with no comments.
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Bryan Martin, CEO of VoIP company 8x8 (Packet8), is quoted in a press release that appears to take pains to distinguish Packet8 from that big Internet telephony competitor of theirs whose name starts with a "V."Reading this document, it appears to have been precipitated by Martin's concerns that Vonage's legal and post-IPO stock price troubles [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on July 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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Very useful new post on Engadget entitled How-To: Wiring VoIP to your phone jacks.In this piece, Engadget's Will O'Brien describes and illustrates the process. The Engadget sketch at the top of this post depicts how this setup will look when it is completed."The idea for this one is pretty easy," Will writes. "We'll visit the [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on June 21st, 2006 with no comments.
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That's AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre, superimposed on a Google Earth map of territory that for the most part,will fall under his company's domain if a blockbuster acquisition of BellSouth goes through.We have lots of details here, as well as my FAQ-style explanation and vision of what is going to happen, how, and why. AT&T-which is still [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 5th, 2006 with no comments.
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VoIP service provider Packet 8 introduced several new calling features today.These include: Voicemail to Email Notification - Receipt of an email each time a voice mail message is left. The email can be forwarded t another email addy. Find Me, Follow Me - Acombined hunting/multi-ringing feature that lets subscribers enter up to five phone numbers [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on February 2nd, 2006 with no comments.
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Talk is rife with the stated wishes of telecom-based broadband Internet access providers such as AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth to impose or negotiate surcharges for high-bandwidth content and services such as VoIP.But rather than the looming battle over net neutrality that many (including yours truly) and I predict in Congress, the FCC and the Courts, [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 18th, 2006 with no comments.
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I visited the Packet 8 booth at the Consumer Electronics Show. Tried the Packet 8 videophone, a product that has been having some modest success via direct website sales but has frankly not wowed them at retail. The phone was stocked at New York's J&R Music World last year- but didn't exactly fly off the [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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I'm posting this from the Sands Exhibition Center, which is the Consumer Electronics Show's overflow exhibition and conference facility here in Las Vegas.Just had demos of the new softphone from NetZero Voice, as well as Packet 8's new softphone.Unlike more familar softphones such as Skype - these softphones are, in a word, pretty. The dialpad, especially [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 5th, 2006 with no comments.
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Microsoft is working with Philips on the development of a wireless household phone.The phone will be able to make VoIP calls using Microsoft's Instant Messenger and its "Windows Live Call" service.No more specifics @ this point, but I am at the Consumer Electronics Show, in the words of the former Cat Stevens, "on the road [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 5th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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