Telecom Junkies

The Junkies revisit VoIP hacking, this time with the help of the security experts who made ‘VoIP Hopper,’ a tool that lets a PC hop on to your voice virtual LAN from your data VLAN. Vigilar security consultants Jason Ostrom and John Kindervag join Dan York, Voice over IP Security Alliance best practices chair, and Jessica Gdowski, Voice Report editor to explain vulnerabilities and security measures.

Join the Junkies as they discuss the current state of the telecom manager job – and ponder whether taking responsibility for wireless devices can keep telecom managers vital to their organizations.

Join Forrester Research's Lisa Pierce, Cellution's Chuck Serapilio, telecom veteran Ken Steinhoff and Voice Report Publisher Jason Huffman as they cut through the anxiety surrounding Sprint Nextel's latest plan to move push to talk from iDEN to EV-DO.

CEO Arunas Chesonis talks to Voice Report Publisher Jason Huffman and NPRG COO Craig Clausen about the origins of PAETEC and his plans to acquire McLeodUSA creating a $1.6 billion telecom service provider.

That is the question Voice Report Editor Jessica Gdowski sets out to answer in the latest Telecom Junkies episode with the help of veteran consortium organizer Tim Lewis, LB3 attorney Ellen Block and telecom attorney/consultant Martha Buyer.

Cellular downloads threaten to hit your budget like a 350-pound defensive lineman. Get your pre-game strategy now by going to TelecomJunkies.com and listening to "Between Lines" Author Art Yonemoto, Hubbell Telecom Manager Jeff Mazzabufi, Cellution's Larry Moore and Voice Report Editor Jessica Gdowski.

Get the latest on a defense being mounted against impending special access rate increases when telecom attorney Colleen Boothby and PAETEC's J.T. Ambrosi join Voice Report Publisher Jason Huffman in the latest episode of Telecom Junkies.

Just days after receiving his two-year federal prison sentence, VOIP hacker Robert Moore tells Voice Report Publisher Jason Huffman and IP telephony security expert Dan York about the part he played in stealing $1 million worth of phone services and what enterprises should be doing now to protect themselves against future attacks.

What would your answer be when confronted with a telecom moral dilemma? What about your peers? Join veteran Junkies Ken Steinhoff, telecom manager at Palm Beach Newspapers, and Kathy Burek, senior telecom analyst at Froedtert & Community Health, as they discuss the early polling from Voice Report’s telecom ethics survey.

Telecom expense management industry leaders Alan Gold, CMO of Avotus, and Dennis Ashton, CIO of Telesoft, guest star on this episode of Telecom Junkies to recap the Power Panel discussion they led at Voice Report’s 3rd Annual National Summit on Telecom Expense Management in San Francisco.

Celebrity technology analyst/Apple antagonist Rob Enderle and Keith Shaw, the editor of Network World's Cool Tools, join Voice Report Publisher Jason Huffman and staff writer Melissa Newman to break down the biggest concerns telecom managers might have about the iPhone on the eve of its release.

Now that PBX giant Avaya has accepted an acquisition offer from a private equity firm, what next? A top IP telephony analyst, a well-known PBX consultant and a telecom manager with 19 years of experience explore the possibilities in the latest episode of Telecom Junkies.

Join the Junkies as they outline the fundamentals for issuing an RFP for telecom expense management services.

Join the junkies as they talk about how your department’s policies for retaining voicemails and call detail records need to change to comply with new legal obligations imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Shock and disgust followed the Virginia Tech tragedy, but communication technology professionals are feeling something else, too. It's anxiety over the adequacy of their own emergency notification systems.