Blogs by Scott Wharton
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Cisco, Video Conferencing and China
Cisco announced their new router yesterday, the CRS-3. One astounding quote from the product announcement: that a CRS-3 carrier deployment could "support video conferencing by all 1.3 billion people in China *simultaneously*. If there was ever any d...
New at&t iPhone rate plans
at&t announced a rate drop on their iPhone unlimited voice plans today, dropping the price from $99.99 to $69.99. The move, prompted by Verizon's price cuts (also today). Included data plans, the unlimited voice and data combo drops from $129....
Mobile Data Billing Solution?
Unlimited mobile data plans have succeeded in getting the masses to use (and pay for) mobile data. Finally. After years of voice-centric mobile carriers bemoaning the need to wean themselves from voice revenues, those times are here. I s...
How Good is Your 3G Mobile Coverage (Really?)
You've seen the ad wars by now between the big mobile carriers if you live in the US ("my coverage is better than your coverage!"). And you've been living under a rock if you haven't heard the incessant complaints about dropped iPhone coverage by AT...
3 Trends in Video Confernecing
Irwin Lazar, Principal Analyst at Nemeretes Research, posting a great article yesterday on 3 trends to watch in video conferencing. The 3 trends are: "the age of video", "the rise of managed video services", and "H.264 Scalable Video Codec" or "SVC"...
VoiceCon = VideoCon?
Is the next best thing in voice really video? I attended the VoiceCon conference last week in Orlando. For those of you who have never attended, it is the premier show for enterprise voice. Over the past few years, the conference has ev...
BroadSoft Embraces Hosted Video
In case you missed it, BroadSoft (my former employer) went on a major offensive with hosted video the past 2 weeks, partnering with the market leaders in video telephony. It started with support for Polycom's big announcement for their widely antici...
Is VoIP Dead?
With 2009 here, there has been a flurry of blog postings in the past few days all around the question of “Is VoIP Dead?”. Alex Saunders says, yes, it’s dead with the caveat that it’s the voip-specific industry that’...
Vidtel - A New Beginning
Today is a pivotal day both personally and professionally. Vidtel is in business! After completing a very successful beta and testing our internal systems, we are giving a “sneak peek” to friends and business colleagues in the telecom in...
GreenDimes - Eliminate Junk Mail
Are you one those people who signed up for the US "Do Not Call" list, actively filters your email spam, and hates junk snail mail? If you are, I finally found a reasonable solution for the junk mail problem. GreenDimes (www.greendimes.com) has a...
