Voice-Based Marketing Automation Blog

The Three Hats of VoIP

Over the past few years new VoIP products and services seem like they are announced daily. While this rate of innovation is exciting, it is also very confusing. How are these companies the same or different? What service should I use for my business?

These …

2010 Predictions about Cloud Telephony

Now that we are well into the new year, and the dust has settled on the annual predictions from all of the popular industry experts, I would like to add my own observations to the mix.

When I think about the telephone industry the old …

Top 9 Cloud Telephony Blog Posts of 2009

As 2009 comes to a close, let’s roundup 9 of the most popular posts from our Cloud Telephony Blog.

• Voice Broadcasting: 17 Questions To Ask Your Service Provider
• Ifbyphone Drops Summer Intern From Clouds To Promote Cloud Telephony
• 4 Ways To Track Phone Calls From
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Thoughts About Clouds

My thoughts about the evolution of cloud computing and cloud telephony.

Let’s begin by thinking about the history of computing. First we had mainframes, since they were very expensive we shared them, hence timesharing. Then as computers became smaller and more inexpensive we put …

Ifbyphone Drops Summer Intern From Clouds To Promote Cloud Telephony

We recently launched a Cloud Telephony Program For Carriers, announced our first carrier partnership and led a Cloud Telephony Webinar for Carriers, making for a pretty exciting summer.

Last week, our summer intern (apparently tired of copy & pasting) asked for a more exciting assignment,…

The Evolution of the Telecommunications Industry

The Telecom Industry Evolves: From “Old” and “New”, to App-Focused Telcos

Over the past 20 years the telecommunications industry has undergone two fundamental transitions: first, from “old telco” to “new telco” and now, to application-focused telcos. 

As Martin Fransman, Professor of Economics at the University …

Cloud Telephony Webinar Archive

We finally had a sunny week here in Chicago, just in time for our Webinar on Cloud Telephony for Carriers. If you missed the webinar, or if you’d like to view it a second time, you have two options:

1. To watch the archived version, …

The Telephone Technology Pendulum and AnyPhone Technologies

Arthur Schopenhauer a German Philosopher, wrote an often misstated quotation, “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom”.  We can apply this quotation in general to technology and specifically to telephony.  Telephony technology swings between complacency and advancement.  In these exciting …

Cloud Telephony Partner Program For Carriers & Service Providers

After publicly announcing our cloud telephony program for carriers, we have added several resources to our website about partnership opportunities. Here is a quick look at the new pages:

• Cloud Telephony Opportunity Overview
• White-Label Cloud Telephony Services
• Cloud Telephony Investment Details
• Cloud Telephony Technology
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Network Communications Partnership Announcement

The announcement today of our partnership with Texas-based carrier Network Communications has received some great coverage.

FierceVoIP wrote an article called Ifbyphone gets first carrier customer for SIP applications offering and we were also featured on the front page of TMCnet.

You can read …

Maximizing Carriers Revenue Per Bit

Michael Morisy of TechTarget posted a great, thoughtful article Thursday on revenue generation in the telecom world. He posed a core question in the story’s title: “Without revenue-per-bit stabilization, is telecom a time bomb?”

Mr. Morisy discusses two distinct challenges. The first is: how do …

The Great CLEC Squeeze

As a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the number of CLECs providing telephone services exploded. A CLEC (competitive exchange carrier) provides telephone services by leasing local loops (phone lines) and interconnecting those local loops to their own or sub-contracted long distance services. For …