11 October 2007

If approved, it could expand VoIP phone service, coverage across U.S. Anyone making a 911 call in the U.S.

26 October 2007

As a resident of San Diego we were asked to stay off our cell phones as much as possible to allow access by emergency personnel fighting the wild fires. That's certainly a reasonable request considering the abnormally high cellular traffic and the need for emergency personnel to coordinate their rescue efforts.

20 November 2007

VoIP telephony firm Jajah has launched Jajah Direct allowing users to make VoIP calls to any destination around the world without the need for a PC.

The company claimed that anyone with a phone can now make use of its services even if they do not have access to the internet.

"Jajah Direct eliminates complicated VoIP solutions and archaic offline pre-paid calling cards single-handedly," said Roman Scharf, cofounder of Jajah.

21 December 2007

Currently 269 VoIP providers in the Australian market

16 January 2008

New research has revealed that more than half of all UK firms now use IP telephony.

Extreme Networks and partner Data Integration polled 115 firms that employed more than 500 people and found that 59 per cent run IP telephony on their Lan, while only 32 per cent run IP video technologies.

25 February 2008

01 April 2008

VoIP calling is on the rise. It used to be that Skype was the only service that people were using to place low-cost or no-cost international calls through their computers. But these days there are dozens of providers that can connect you to others using phones that are routed through the Internet. As mobile broadband gets increasingly popular, VoIP is starting to find a new platform on the mobile phone. And as this industry grows, providers need to compete with each other to offer the best calling features at the lowest cost.

27 September 2007

Digium is stirring up the open-source community it helped create by buying one of the vendors that has built an IP-PBX on its Asterisk VoIP platform.

Digium Thursday will unveil plans to acquire Switchvox, one of the many SMB-focused vendors that have cropped up in recent years with products built on top of Digium's open-source Asterisk VoIP software. Digium is the primary developer of Asterisk.

12 October 2007

Truphone, which routes mobile calls via the internet, has introduced its best-ever call rates - and they remain in effect over the Christmas period.

Until 31 December, Truphone users can enjoy free mobile calls to landlines in 40 countries and to cellphones in the USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Mobile rates in Europe have been cut 20% to just 15p a min or less, and there is no connection charge, while rates to mobiles elsewhere in the world have been cut by an average of 23%.