Internet VoIP telephony company Vonage has signed a deal with private equity company Silver Point Finance to provide the troubled company with at least US$125 million and agreed terms and conditions for up to US$215 million, provided Vonage can raise US$60 million from other sources. The cash will be used [...]

As cable giant Comcast prepares to do battle with the Federal Communications Commission over charges it blocked file-sharing on its network, a look back at the events of the last year:-- Comcast is caught by the Associated Press blocking peer-to-peer traffic on its network, allegedly violating the F.C.C.'s 2005 "Internet [...]

Choosing a VoIP system for a business is in a word: complicated. From choosing equipment to service to outfitting everything for an organization your size, it's a lot of decisions. Perhaps that's why a lot of organizations are turning to consultants to help with the decision making. (Hello, wide open [...]

In college, my friends and I relished in VoIP. Back then, it was new and free . . . Although we could barely hear each other on our computer to computer calls, let alone on the few computer to phone calls we made, free is fantastic to penny-pinched college kids. [...]

The story in Slate about the death of the landline presents "partial truth" in my view as it picks up a theme that anyone who has had statistics in college quickly learns. The game we learned was called "how to lie with statistics" which really means telling the truth, but [...]

Maybe now that they got an infusion of cash Vonage's most recently hired PR team will start reaching out to influencers again like they did on their way up the VoIP and telco ladder. It's been months since I heard from them (the USA team that is.) My sources tell [...]