Smith On VoIP

As mentioned before the Telecom Professionals Group met yesterday in Cream Center ( a nice little place on Chamiers road,Chennai). This was more of a goal setting meeting than a technology meeting ( Yup, Techies can try their hand at something other than nerd talk as well ).
The meeting revolved around what we […]

Aswath’s take on number portability is a definite read. As he has rightly pointed out, the question is who should own the number. The subscriber or the telephone company. The latter owning the number would lead to problems as in the typical case of SunRocket.
But the problem is no service provider in his right mind […]

I have a question which hopefully somebody can answer.
Terminating a VoIP call in TDM is illegal in India ( if you don’t have the license to do it). Question is does this hold good for a 3pcc? ( Third party call control) as well. I will discuss sometime later this day ( when I […]

Europe Has Almost Twice The Amount of VoIP Users
Red Herring has a story about a recent In-Stat report about VoIP adoption rates in the US and Europe. The lag that the US is experiencing has to do with two factors that are not present in Europe:

Lack of a compelling reason to make the switch to […]

I had wondered yesterday as to when would iPhone be available in India. This article in ibnlive kind of answers all my questions including the one as to whether I can use the iPhone bought in US. Looks like it might available sometime end of this year. This might happen after all considering Blackberry was […]

Just another couple for days for the famed iPhone release. I think the anticipation is much more than any other Summer blockbuster. Got to give it to Apple and Jobs for raising the bar on this one.
I am hearing rumours that some of the Indian cell phone stores ( like Univercell) is going to sell […]

Though Cisco’s fiscal third-quarter profit surged by 34 percent, its stocks fell down in after hours trading because of weakness in Cisco’s core areas of business.
The fear among investors stems from the fact that there is a slowdown in orders from US businesses, even though the sales in the other regions grew at a double […]