When I covered the upcoming VoIP expos about three weeks ago, I mentioned we had an interesting press release coming up. Then I continued and forgot all about it. Luckily our friends at Grandstream did follow up and dutifully released it. So now it’s my pleasure to announce our partnership with Grandstream.
For once, I can agree with Microsoft. Skype has no place in a business, not only because of its underlying peer-to-peer technology which will user your company’s CPU power and network infrastructure to create a network for people outside of the enterprise, but also because of Skype’s contact list being linked to your, or your employee’s Skype ID.
This has got to be painful for a service that promises you one number for life. GrandCentral, one of the latest Google acquisitions, that offers you one number for life that rings on all your phones has been forced to change some of their customers’ phone numbers. Due to problems with one of their upstream providers, GrandCentral could not port over some 400 numbers to another carrier and was forced to assign these customers a new phone number.
Robert Moore, the 23-year old mastermind behind a duo of VoIP hackers that stole over 10 million of call minutes from at least 15 different internet telephony service providers has been sentenced to two years in a federal prison and a $150 000 fine. His partner in crime, 25-year old Edwin Pena who sold the stolen minutes to other carriers, jumped bail and has supposedly fled the country.
Let’s start with a little history lesson here: Boeing’s first in-flight online connectivity service ‘Connexion by Boeing’ was first launched on 17 May 2004. It was the first commercially available in-flight internet service and was offered by a dozen of carriers doing transatlantic flights. I personally used it on a Singapore Airlines flight and found it a welcome change over the in-flight entertainment system on a 12 hour flight. Unfortunately Boeing axed the service little over a year ago, dooming transatlantic travelers back to the stone-age entertainment system.
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