Vonage adds Europe to calling plans

Vonage has added European access to their Premium Unlimited $25 and Small Business $50 plans.  The international calling fees to the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, and Spain will be waived for these plans.  Good news for international callers!
Check out ZDNet’s article for more information.

Vonage adds Europe to calling plans

Vonage has added European access to their Premium Unlimited $25 and Small Business $50 plans.  The international calling fees to the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, and Spain will be waived for these plans.  Good news for international callers!
Check out ZDNet’s article for more information.

Is AT&T a more powerful brand than Cingular?

Today RCR Wireless News is reporting that AT&T will drop the Cingular Wireless brand name in 2007 – surely not a surprise to many who suggested this when they heard SBC was buying AT&T.  While I’m not sure how this will play out in the end, I believe that AT&T is making a mistake.  With all the effort and dollars invested in the Cingular brand they now decide the old AT&T Death Star is a much more vibrant entity in the minds of customers.

Cingular has worked expanded their brand in the public mind share, they’ve successfully rolled out EDGE services network wide, expanded the network footprint for GSM 850 & 1900.  The only area that they have left to improve significantly on is their customer service.  The Cingular brand is youthful in comparison to AT&T Wireless.  Many mobile users were stung in the conversion from AT&T Wireless TDMA phones to Cingular GSM phones and they won’t soon forget the experience.  I think it’ll take a much more expensive sales job to win these customers over (again) to the AT&T brand when they are beginning to be satisfied with the Cingular service.

Many people also like to have a delineation between their land line and wireless providers.  It demonstrates their power of choice, if only to themselves.  Personally, I think the old AT&T is long dead.  The latest ‘3.0’ rendition of the company is really a renamed SBC, and I’ve never had a good experience with them.

So what do you think of this latest play in the AT&T name game?

When can I use Skype

I can, its just that nobody I know uses Skype.  The other part of it is that I’m not a chatty person anyway – but the technology and concept is so cool to me that I wish I could.  I’ve set up an account and checked out the service, and it is really neat.

I wanted VoIP years ago when I got my first taste of it with NetMeeting.  At the time, I even tried to use it with one of those early Connectix QuickCams that you attached to the parallel port (seriously).  Now that the reality of VoIP and desktop video conferencing is nearly ubiquitous, the challenge is not as great as it once was.

So whats the next really cool, tough challenge for the technology buff to play with?

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