June 2009

  1. 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 of Edinburgh wrote:

  2. Ifbyphone Interview about Cloud Telephony with TMCnet Rich Tehrani

    This interview between Irv Shapiro CEO of Ifbyphone and Rich Tehrani of TMCnet explains the Ifbyphone services and their integration into the telco ecosystem.



  3. 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 times, when telephone technologies are rapidly advancing, we are often faced with the pain of innovation.