April 2009
The Great CLEC Squeeze
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 by Irv ShapiroAs 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 most of the past 23 years, CLECs have primarily competed with the incumbent telephone carriers (ILECs) on price. Those days are over.
CLEC SIP Application Warehouse White Paper
Monday, April 20th, 2009 by Irv ShapiroWe are very excited to announce the availability of our partnership program between the telephone carrier community and Ifbyphone. To better understand this initiative lets look together at the evolution of the world wide web and how SIP signaling is following a similar evolution.
Google Voice - Not Ready for Business
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 by Irv ShapiroAs I have shared in a previous blog post, I believe Google Voice is a fantastic addition to the Telephony 2.0 ecosystem and will help to establish the concept of supplementing a dial tone telephone company with additional resources from a telephone application service. However, for business users I find the current Google offering lacking.
Here is why:
eComm 2009 Ifbyphone iPhone Mashup Tutorial
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 by Irv ShapiroI recently led a session at eComm 2009 on how to build an Ifbyphone-to-iPhone App. We've uploaded the session to YouTube. You can find it on the Ifbyphone YouTube Channel, and I've also listed the URLs for the 7 parts below:
Part 1: Introduction to iPhone Applications