The only "big dog" consumer VoIP company at VON was AT&T which devoted a part of its booth to its CallVantage service. The biggest dog of all, Vonage, had neither booth nor private room, but arranged for me to chat with its CTO, Louis Mamakos. We mainly discussed some technical aspects of Vonage's service, but I learned that a Wi-Fi phone offering is in the works, as well as a small business product. The small biz product hardware will feature multiple FXS (phone) ports and address the needs of some Vonage customers who end up using multiple ATAs to handle more than two lines.

Convergent Networks subsidiary BroadVoice apparently decided that playing the price war for all-you-can-eat U.S. and Canada VoIP calling was boring. So they announced their Unlimited World and Unlimited World Plus plans for $19.95 and $24.95 a month respectively. The "World" plan gets you unlimited calling to 21 countries (US and Canada count for two of the 21) including Australia, Singapore plus many European countries. The "Plus" plan adds 14 more countries (for a total of 35) including Japan, South Korea, Brazil and Israel. Note that Broadvoice is one of the few major consumer VoIP companies that lets you supply your own SIP device on any of its plans. They also offer the Pulver WiSIP wireless VoIP phone for $150 (it sells for $250 from Pulver) on top of any of their plans.

The other notable consumer service provider was Packet8, whose booth was dominated by a number of its video phones. They announced at the show the signing of computer retailer Micro Center to sell Packet8 products and services in its stores.

It's worthy of note that Verizon was there with a booth for its VoIP business service, but with no representation of its VoiceWing consumer service.