Vonage to Resell EarthLink Service
Interesting synergy, because it’s a wholesaler-retailer relationship, not exactly a strategic partnership, because EarthLink is generally constrained to offer non-disriminatory wholesale access to all its metro-scale networks by contract with the cities it is working with. While EarthLink has its own VoIP service it’s been selling, and is looking to expand, Vonage is a great reseller of this kind of service, as they will be able to leverage
offer Wi-Fi-based VoIP phones this year with the greater coverage of a citywide network.
This highlights, once again, that people will need per-human-being or per-family accounts that many devices can access at different rates than full-price-per-device. This is Devicescape’s whole point of its new service, and its only becoming more obvious over time.