VoIP General News

03 October 2007

The focus on achieving cost savings with IP telephony is utterly misguided

There are two problems with the hype around IP telephony.

First, it probably will not save users as much as they would end up spending on extra hardware to maintain call quality ­ the promise of savings is a red herring.

04 December 2007

Klausner Technologies has filed a $360 million suit against Apple and AT&T over voicemail patents that the company claims the iPhone infringes.

New York-based Klausner says the lawsuit also names Comcast, Cablevision Systems and Ebay's Skype as infringing its patent for "visual voicemail". The plaintiff seeks an additional $300 million from the three.

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27 February 2008

The bandwidth needed for VoIP transmission will depend on a few factors: the compression technology, packet overhead, network protocol used and whether silence suppression is used. This tip investigates the first three considerations. Silence suppression will be covered in a later tip.

There are two primary strategies for improving IP network performance for voice: Allocate more VoIP bandwidth (reduce utilization) or implement QoS.

How much bandwidth to allocate depends on:

04 October 2007

There is a problem with Skype – but it’s not how much money it makes.

Skype is famous enough to have reached the status of a verb, a rare honour. You don’t make a Net phone call, you ‘Skype’, just as you once you didn’t vacuum a floor, you hoovered.

06 December 2007

As of next September, Voice over Internet Protocol services must allow for emergency calls, the watchdog has decreed.

10 March 2008

United Arab Emirates (UAE) will continue its ban on software programme Skype and other services based on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a low-cost web-based communication technology, the Gulf News reported Monday. VoIP services will be allowed only through the two licensed operators in the country, Etisalat and Du, said Mohammad N. Al Ganem, director general of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA).

12 October 2007

10 December 2007

The total Dutch consumer telephony market grew by 39,000 connections during the third quarter of 2007 to 5.69 million, driven by a growing number of Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) users and increased growth for cable VoIP, according to Telecompaper's quarterly update on the Dutch fixed telephony market. The number of WLR customers grew by 103,000 to 283,000 on 30 September 2007. The number of Dutch consumer VoIP subscriptions grew 7.9 percent to 2.37 million.

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24 March 2008

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18 October 2007

Whether you’re a journalist needing to record an interview, or an irate consumer about to complain to a business, the act of recording your phone calls appears to be in fashion.

Unlike in the US, UK residents are universally allowed to record their conversations for personal use without telling the other party.