Monthly Archives: August 2011
Hurricane Irene Message from Phone.com
Saturday, August 27th, 2011 at 5:34 PM EST
To all our customers, friends and to anyone in the IRENE path stay safe and please follow official instructions. Please remember that if you have a VoIP home phone with an Analog Phone Adapter (ATA) or if you are using IP Phones they will not work if your internet or power is down. You do [...]
Will You Work From Taco Bell When It Gets Wifi?
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 at 3:40 PM EST
I’m a big fan of free wifi and Mexican food and guess who’s getting in store wifi very soon? Yes you guessed it, Taco Bell. I can’t even tell you the last time I ate Taco Bell but let me tell you this I now have a preference to go to Taco Bell over Del [...]
Sprint Getting The iPhone Will Change Everything… I Hope
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 at 6:24 PM EST
I’m just returning from a short vacation and the first news I’ve read that really caught my attention is that Sprint it getting the iPhone. This is massive, this is a large shift for the mobile industry specifically in the US. It will mark the first time in the almost 4 years the iPhone has [...]
Unlimited Minute Extension On Phone.com for iPhone
Monday, August 22nd, 2011 at 2:40 PM EST
Do you ever find yourself on a really long conference call or stuck on the phone with your bank for what seems like forever? It happens to me more often then I’d like to admit and a few times I’ve gone over my cell phone minutes which is always quite painful. With all the offers [...]
Global Numbers For Those Abroad Calling The US
Thursday, August 18th, 2011 at 4:12 PM EST
What do you do when your company in the US needs to provide customer support for a client in London? Or maybe daily calls from a business partner in Paris?. Or you have a small office in the Netherlands that needs to call your US office but can’t call abroad? These are common issues we [...]
Phone.com Features And Options
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 at 10:32 PM EST
Last night I saw the Verizon commercial featuring a small tree company, they were using their tablets and phones for logistics and communication to get a giant tree planted quickly. Now this post isn’t a commercial for Verizon but I got thinking how every business is so different and has it’s own unique needs. Some [...]
Smart Phones Are Even Smarter With VoIP
Monday, August 15th, 2011 at 12:49 PM EST
It’s no secret that VoIP services such as Phone.com include the ability to physically place your phone literally anywhere in the world where you can get an Internet connection, no matter what the phone number. And by now most users know (or should know) that it is simplicity itself to go online and quickly set [...]
Phone.com Makes One Number For All A Reality
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 at 10:04 PM EST
My good friend Ewan MacLeod of Mobile Industry Review posted an interesting article recently in his Operator Innovation series about getting mobile phone carriers to provide customers who have multiple devices just 1 number. Ewan’s not alone, I myself along with a lot of my industry friends as well as many business people I know [...]
All Mobile OS Platforms Breed iPhone Users So Aren’t You Making An iPhone App?
Thursday, August 4th, 2011 at 4:38 PM EST
I’m always curious when I hear about surveys with staggering stats and numbers thrown around about mobile phones/apps how they affect developers. Does your company have an app or are you a developer? If your company doesn’t have an app are you creating one or even considering it? If you provide a service of any [...]
Telco’s Aren’t Telling Users The Whole Truth About “Unlimited” Data Plans
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 at 6:18 PM EST
Over the weekend I started reading a handful of articles about AT&T throttling internet speeds once a customer hits a certain amount of data used. People across the web are complaining and calling it unjustified. It seems like they are all upset about being limited to 2.5GB of 3G speed internet then being throttled down [...]