Clearing Inbox Debris
It’s that time again:
FreeConferencing.com Launches: Until they do something to equalize inter-carrier compensation between most civilized parts of the United States and rural locations, services like FreeConferenceCall.com and now FreeConferencing.com will continue to exist and be profitable. By hosting these services in, say, rural Iowa, they actually make a small amount of money per minute on incoming calls. Anyway, FreeConferencing.com is a way to do a one-to-many call, complete with a web-based console to manage the call.
Vonage Trying To Act Like Mobile Phone Carriers: Vonage, the VoIP landline replacement service provider that refuses to die, is now offering a deal where you can sign up and not pay for equipment, shipping, or activation. The catch? You have to sign a two year agreement complete with early termination fees that are, according to my calculations, worse than a mobile phone contract.
iPopperz Fashion Earphones: Personally not my thing, but these are relatively inexpensive, in-ear haedphones with a number of styles, colors, and whatnot. I would consider buying the black, green, and black pair. One cool thing: they sell replacement earpads. Granted, there is a huge amount of markup there, but it’s the first time I’ve seen them available.
Bad Experience on DeFi Mobile: I briefly wrote about DeFi Mobile in October. Wasn’t sure how well the service was going to be when it went live, but someone forwarded me some correspondence to and from the company related to their experience. In short: it was bad voice quality and improper CallerID. Anyone have a good experience with DeFi Mobile?
Qwest Offering Free WiFi Nationwide: If you happen to live in an area where Qwest is your local exchange carrier and you get high speed Internet from them, now you can take it with you–sort of. Qwest has signed a deal with AT&T to provide Qwest customers free WiFi at 17,000 AT&T operated WiFi hotspots. Personally, I think it’s worth $9.95 a month for Boingo, which offers WiFi at AT&T locations and a whole bunch more!
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Comment by Andy Abramson
Re: DeFi Mobile—are they around? It has been months since I even heard about them.
Re: Vonage–I’m at least liking the fact that the new management team is trying to be different and newer.
re: Qwest-They have to wish they had been bought. I still think someone, likely Verizon gobbles them up at some point, but do they ever need a mobile play.
re: Free Conference Calling—My prediction-Skype wipes that market up in a few years. The paid stuff ends up at COL (Citrix OnLine) which was HighDefConferencing.com, a former client.
Comment by spg
when DeFi first came out I inquired about whether i could really call any phone in any country or if it was a fancy way of wording ‘VOIP cals to any country’ and i specifically picked a couple desitinations i know to be super expensive. they replied with a ‘quote’ from the marketing dept. and nothing specific to the destinations i asked about. all aditional inquires via email went unanswered and my forum posts asking questions were never posted. i notice that the forum is 100% positive posts now; so they obvoisely moderate out all else.
more recently i have noticed they have a list of countries taht can not be called; this list grows almost every day.
for me the one amazing thing about this service was the unlimited calls to any country. that made this an interesting service to be used from a single location for ‘cost savings on otherwise expensive international calls’ that i believe has a much bigger market than the limited number of people who would use it from public WiFi spots. of course with a growing list of countries that can not be called that attraction is disappearing.
Comment by spg
i just checked the website and the list of unsported countries has now been replaced with a short list of supported countries.
Comment by Matt
I had no idea Qwest was still around. They were my provider when I lived in Montana.
Comment by jiya bingo live free
For me the one amazing thing about this service was the unlimited calls to any country.that made this an interesting service to be used from a single location.