Jan Harris posted an article over at VoIP-News today that said that engineering and techie nerds in England have decided that VoIP is good for small business.

OK, she said it way better than that, but since she didn’t put any references in her article to where she found the information, I couldn’t check it out for myself. I even wandered around the British Computer Society’s website for about an hour trying to find a news release or white paper that coroberated the story, but couldn’t. Oh, well, it’s not like it matters that much anyway… we all know VoIP kicks ass and if your business is still spending money with AT&T, SBC or Qwest, you deserve to be losing money on your phone service.

If you do have a company, and are interested in VoIP, you can use Telerus’s comparison tool to price out VoIP PBX or VoIP Office type products for your business.

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Comcast released last quarter’s numbers today, and their VoIP section looks like it’s making a killing. And I quote, Comcast…

Added 555,000 Comcast Digital Voice (CDV) customers during the second quarter — penetration reached 12.5% of homes passed or 5.6 million customers.

I don’t know about you, but it looks to me like all the old land-line phone companies are going to be out of business in the next few years. Especially when a cable company can pass most of them up in total customers to hit number 4 in the nation.

You can read the rest of the story in Comcast’s Pressroom.

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Apple’s new iPhone 3G is VoIP capable, making it a much more powerful corporate device than it’s predecessors. maybe that’s one of the reasons why Apple sold more than 1 million of them in the first three days they were available.

If you’re interested in grabbing a new VoIP enabled iPhone 3G from Apple and AT&T, visit an apple store today!

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Vonage will report its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008 on Thursday, August 7, 2008. The earnings release will be available on Vonage’s Investor Relations website at http://ir.vonage.com.

Management will host a webcast discussion of the quarter’s results on Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time. To participate, please dial (877) 675-4756 approximately ten minutes prior to the call. International callers should dial (719) 325-4869. A replay will be available approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call until midnight August 21, 2008, and may be accessed by dialing (888) 203-1112. International callers should dial (719) 457-0820. The replay passcode is: 9983148.

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I’m confused, can you end a fiscal year only a few months into the calender year? Can someone explain to me how this works please? Can Packet8 be ending 2008’s year now, or is this a typo in their press release?

GAAP net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 was $691,000 or $0.01 per share, compared with a loss of $2.9 million, or ($0.05) per share for the same period last year. Operating income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 was $695,000, the company’s first reported operating income since the inception of the Packet8 business. Operating cash flow for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 was $420,000 and $3 million for all of fiscal 2008. The company ended its 2008 fiscal year with no debt and cash and investments of $14.6 million, an increase of approximately $2.6 million from the end of fiscal 2007.

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I mentioned awhile back that Packet8 had brought a product to market called Mobiletalk, and that you could use it to bypass your cell phone provider’s network when making international calls. Well the software and service are even easier and cheaper than I though they would be.

Come to find out, once you install the software on your phone, there is nother else to do. You don’t have to dial any dial around numbers, you don’t have to remember any PIN’s, nothing, nadda, zilch. All you do is dial whichever international number you want to connect with, and the software on your phone takes over.

When you dial the the international number, your phone will call out to a local number and transfer the call to Packet8’s VoIP network. Since you don’t have to remember to do it, this is going to save a lot of lazy peopl a lot of money. I know that I hardly ever remember to use my Airespring dial around service when making international cell phone calls, so this should make it way easier for me, and others, to save money.

While the international calls are cheaper, somewhere in the 3¢ to 4¢ range for Europe and the 5¢ to 7¢ range for Asia, you need to remember that your cell phone provider will still be counting the minutes against your monthly total. If you have an unlimited minute plan, then that, of course, isn’t a problem.

For those of you who don’t have unlimited cell phone service, you might want to take a look at Sprint, who is now offering unlimited everything for $99.99 per month. I saw a news release/ad that their new CEO/President or whatever he is did last week that said they were now going to give unlimited texting, downloads, ringtones, minutes and whatever else etc… for one flat monthly fee. I don’t know if I got it all correct, but that was the jist of the message. You can check it out for yourself and let me know if I’m right.

Here’s a list of phone manufacturers who currently have phones that work with Packet8’s Mobiletalk service:

Acer • Anex TEK • Asus • ATT • Audiovox • Ben Q • Blackberry • Cingular • Dopod • Eten • Fifth_Media • FujutsuSiemens • Gigabyte • HP • HTC • I-Mate • Inventec • Izen • Kinpo • Lenovo • Mitac • Motorola • Nokia • O2 • Orange • ORSiO • Palm Treo • Pantech • Paragon • Pharos • Qtek • Quanta • Qwest • RoverPC • Samsung • Sharp • Siemens/BenQ • Sprint • Symbian • Tatung • TechFaithWireless • Telefonica • T-Mobile • Toshiba • Treo/Palm • UTStarcom • Verizon • Vodafone • Windows Mobile

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Those of you who want to start saving on cell phone minutes, and have an N or E series Nokia mobile phone can start using the WiFi feature on the phone, along with a company called Tpad, to make calls all over the world using your cell phone and any WiFi hotspot.

Here’s a list of featues offered by Tpad:

• Free Mobile Calls - If you’ve both got Tpad, it means free mobile calls when you’re both in a Wi-Fi area.
• Low Cost International Calls - Whether you’re in Wi-Fi or not, your calls will always reach you (via GSM call forwarding or our free voicemail)
• Make International Calls at Local Rates - For your callers, it’s just a call to a mobile number, but it will be cheaper to you if you’re overseas (Tpad doesn’t charge roaming fees) or if you’re usually charged for inbound calls (Tpad doesn’t charge for inbound calls)
  Tpad calls can help get through where GSM calls can’t (a surprising number of people have poor GSM mobile reception at home, for example).
• Free Voicemail - never miss any important calls again.
• Free Voicemail to Email - Listen / edit / save your personal messages by accessing them from your personal email address.
• No Connection Charge – Tpad doesn’t believe in charging you something for nothing. With Tpad you won’t pay us for the privilege of connecting your call.
• Per Second Billing - Only pay for the seconds that you use, for instance, if your call only lasts for 30 seconds, you only pay for 30 seconds and not 1 minute.

Tpad accounts are free, so run over to Tpad and sign up today!

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Did you guys see the new VoIP price war that T-Mobile decided to wage against the voice over IP companies out there? T-Mobile is now offering to give you VoIP home phone service for only $10.00 per month if you buy one of their cell phone packages that costs more than $39.95 per month. Since Vonage is charging $25.00 per month, if you are going to get cell phone service anyway, then it looks like T-Mobile is the way to go. Grab a T-Mobile plan today!

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According to a story over at Twice, Packet8 is offering voice over IP phone service software for your cell phone through their new service called MobileTalk. Just download the software and install it on your cell phone, and then, when you make international calls, the calls will be routed over Packet8’s VoIP system, saving you tons of money by not putting the calls through your cell phone provider. While you will still have to count your minutes, they will be charged as in-county minutes by your cell phone company, and not out of country minutes. Visit Packet8’s MobileTalk for more information and to see a list of their current international rates.

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The latest 10-Q Quarterly Reports for Vonage are out. I’m not really going to say anything about them, I’m just going to let this set of numbers spark your interest enough to go read the report for yourself.

December 31, 2006 183,201
September 30, 2007 (62,929 )


Read the rest of the Vonage report here.

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