Welcome to Telephony’s Telephony 2.0 Weblog.

What’s this all about?

Here’s a handy buzzphrase list to get a sense of what we’re talking about here: Web 2.0; mashups; social networks; SOA; IMS; cloud OS; Google / Yahoo / Amazon as hybrid datacenter / communications / content providers; gadgets; widgets; telco 2.0 biz models; competition; unbundling; cost-based pricing; etc. etc…

Basically, as we say in the tagline, the intersection of Web 2.0-style technologies and services; IP communications and its impact on the traditional PSTN telephony market; and the emergence of a whole slew of new competitors, including more competition-minded telcos.

If you are tracking these topics — and who in the traditional telecom industry isn’t — consider this blog a place to track the latest trends, keep up with breaking news and talk with your peers about these important topics.

Thanks for joining me.

Feel free to drop me an email anytime at rkarpinski AT telephonyonline DOT com.