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January 01, 2004
2004: Looking Forward to a Great Year Ahead!
It's been a while since I was really looking forward to the start of another year.
Today doesn't feel like just another New Year's Eve but rather feels like the start of something great.
For those of us who have lived thru the IP Communications Revolution since 1995, 2004 feels a lot like 1999 did after 1998 was a "break-thru" year for conventional wisdom adoption that VoIP was going to happen, it was just a matter of when.
Looking back at 2003, it started off with a personal re-commitment on my part when I repurchased the VON events from Key3Media and I spent the better part of 2003 looking at next-generation business opportunities in our space.
2003 saw the re-launch of pulver.com Consulting and our team has been having fun providing strategic consulting services to some of the largest communication companies of the world.
I've also seen that with the advent of the Broadband Home, consumers will take advantage of IP enabled communication systems and real opportunities for Broadband Parasites now exist in 2004.
Free World Dialup ended 2003 with close to 125,000 subscribers and ended the year with a very successful year-end holiday season promotion where we introduced voice over broadband to over 36,500 new people over a 2 week period.
On the conference front, pulver.com will be producing Spring 2004 VON conference at the end of March together with FastNet Futures 2004, VON Europe 2004 in early June and Fall 2004 VON in mid-October.
In between our SIP Summit will be back co-located with Supercomm in Chicago in late June and July will see the return of our Developers Conferences.
I'm also looking forward to SuperNova 2004 happening June 24-25 and the introduction of some new events along the way.
Later this month, Carl Ford and I will be hosting our annual IP Communications Industry Executive Summit in Sophia Antipolis, France. This is an annual event that we have held since 1998 and is one place where people don't pitch but rather bond and by the time we are done we all have a much better clue of where things will be going.
Sometime this year I expect to see the first of what may become many VoIP related IPOs and the announcement of yet-unannounced mergers and acquisitions within the space.
Wi-Fi VoIP is on the verge of happening BIG and I expect to hear more positive news about the use of IP Communication systems in both Enterprises and by service providers both large and small.
I also think 2004 will be the year that blogging will hit critical mass and in my book 2004 is the Year of the Blog.
Speaking of books, my new year's resolution for 2004 is to finish my book on the "IP Communications Revolution." Hopefully this will happen sometime this year.
Happy New Year to All!
Posted by jeff on January 1, 2004 01:56 AM | Permalink
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Comments
Free World Dialup is the best VOIP out there. I used to go wit net2phone but this one is free. great.
Posted by: cialis blog at February 19, 2004 04:41 AM
i want to know details about the Free World Dialup for 2004.
thank you!!!
Posted by: ronit at January 8, 2004 08:35 AM
happy new year to all u guyz responsible for this great service...
Posted by: marsha guevara at January 1, 2004 11:21 AM
Jeff,
Happy New Year too, I wish the best for you and the great FWD team! Thanks for the fantastic year-end holiday promotion, it worked fine, VoIP has a nice future ahead!
Posted by: Paulo Reus at January 1, 2004 09:18 AM
Happy new year.
i download your program and i like to now how it work
Posted by: yairzi at January 1, 2004 06:19 AM