Archive for: January 2005

10 January 2005

Quest for a Nokia 6340i

Filed under: Uncategorized - 10 Jan 2005

There is one positive thing about migrating to Cingular: it is possible to use a GAIT phone on Cingular. A GAIT phone essentially gives you the best of all possible worlds in terms of coverage in the USA: GSM, TDMA, …

9 January 2005

Provisioning Sipura Devices

Filed under: Uncategorized - 09 Jan 2005

I’m working on some stuff at Voxilla that has me starting to work on provider-type provisioning for the Sipura series of adapters. This means using tools like the SPA Compiler and making actual configuration files.

The wonderful thing about …

8 January 2005

Snow in Port Orchard

Filed under: Uncategorized - 08 Jan 2005

Well, the various weather folks were right. It was going to precipitate and get cold enough to snow in our neck of the woods and it sure did. From what I can see outside, it looks like less than an …

7 January 2005

Marcelo’s in a lot of Jeff Pulver’s Pictures

Filed under: Uncategorized - 07 Jan 2005

I know Marcelo is at CES talking with people like Jeff Pulver and hanging out with Ravi Sakaria, the CEO of VoicePulse, but here’s some visual proof in this and this blog entry.

6 January 2005

Getting some scoops today!

Filed under: Uncategorized - 06 Jan 2005

Marcelo is calling me from the floor of CES and is passing along various tidbits that I am documenting in our Notes from CES 2005 story. Probably the biggest nes on the service provider side was that BroadVoice

Alltell wanting to buy Western Wireless?

Filed under: Uncategorized - 06 Jan 2005

It looks like Alltel has aspirations to be a national carrier is it looks to acquire Western Wireless. This isn’t a done deal yet, but the talks are in “advanced stages” according to the reports.

While Western Wireless …

5 January 2005

Vonage is on a tear!

Filed under: Uncategorized - 05 Jan 2005

Skibare has some interesting insight on what Vonage’s 400,000 subscribers mean for the rest of the industry. He thinks I’m giving Level3 the Rodney Dangerfield treatment, though, which isn’t quite true. I just think that any M&A activity will …

Fighting Comment and Trackback Ping Spam

Filed under: Uncategorized - 05 Jan 2005

My site is getting pummeled by folks wanting to do comment and trackback ping spam. A lot of the trackback spam has come from people selling porn. I guess I have to start protecting myself, so I’ve implemented some filters …

What about Level3?

Filed under: Uncategorized - 05 Jan 2005

Some comments from Skibare about Level3 appeared in a comment on VoIP 2005 Predictions. He seems to think that Level3 will be involved in VoIP consolidation that might occur in 2005–consolidation I am not entirely convinced will occur this …

Recent picture of my daughter

Filed under: Uncategorized - 05 Jan 2005

Gracie a couple of weeks ago

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