Around the Blogosphere
Source: www.voip-news.com
Tom Keating from the VoIP and Gadgets Blog is up first today, with news on the latest legal wranglings involving Truphone. Earlier this week, a judge told T-Mobile (UK) to cease blocking calls to Truphone and “granted a mandatory injunction forcing T-Mobile (UK) Ltd to interconnect with Truphone, which provides a low-cost internet telephony service on mobile phones. James Tagg, Truphone’s chief executive officer, said, ”The injunction is good news not only for Truphone but for every company trying to develop internet-era services and for every consumer wanting freedom of choice and lower prices. We are determined to bring better-value mobile calls, text messages and other innovative services to mobile phone users, and it’s right that we should not be prevented from doing so.”
Rich Tehrani from the VoIP Blog weighs in on the latest hysteria … all about ooma. “ooma, the latest p2p VoIP scheme promising free long distance to the masses. The difference between ooma and other p2p solutions like Skype is the ooma solution utilizes phone lines of existing customers to terminate calls in local areas. A call placed on the ooma network from San Francisco to the 203 area code would be terminated on an ooma box in someone’s house in the 203 area code. The question worth asking (and I have not had a briefing from the company as of yet) is what security measures are used to ensure I am not listening in on other callers. If that caller from San Francisco is calling their broker they most likely won’t be thrilled to have me listening to their phone call.”
Russell Shaw from IP Telephony discusses numbers, namely Skype’s. “The New Registered Users may be declining slightly on a quarterly basis because the Skype user base is becoming somewhat more experienced. When that happens, there are fewer bewilderments about how to get the software to work, as well as fewer repeated downloads when the Skype software doesn’t work right the first time. So what about the Skype to Skype minutes down 8%, and the Skype Out Minutes being flat? I think Skype to Skype minutes are down because the novelty has worn off, and Skype to Skype users are better at working with their Skype. This would manifest itself in less time spent per call getting the connection right and then talking about Skype. Say that jibber jabber took one minute out of a ten minute Skype call. Maybe with the more habituated Skype-To-Skype callers now just cutting to the chase, that minute saved on a ten minute Skype to Skype call equates to about 10% less time for the call. So maybe now a call that took 10 minutes takes 9? Hey, there’s your 8%.”
