VoIP News Archive

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%.

31 October 2007

The FCC voted to expand local number portability (LNP) rules to VoIP services, giving consumers the right to keep the same, familiar phone number when switching to a new provider.

20 November 2007

Fiji's first licensed VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service provider, VoiceNetIP (Fiji) Limited, yesterday announced it would start operations in a fortnight's time.

Company director Joeli Kalou said after three years of waiting, the company given the VOIP license intend to bring maximum benefits and savings to business and the people of Fiji.

Unwired Fiji chief executive John Pollock said based on the consultations with regulators, the licence awarded to VoiceNetIP was not fair.

18 December 2007

Vonage is facing some customer complaints over a multi-day outage this past weekend. But that's the least of its worries. On Friday telecommunications equipment maker Nortel Networks filed a lawsuit against Vonage in a U.S. District Court in Delaware claiming that it violated nearly a dozen patents.

This past year has been a rough one for the voice over Internet protocol company. I have to say, the long-term outlook is getting bleaker for the firm as it faces a seemingly endless stream of lawsuits.

16 January 2008

Many enterprises shy away from all-IP unified communications (UC), fearful that communications blackouts and brownouts could sink their businesses. But UC doesn't have to be a gamble.

"The wonderful part of this new technology is that converged applications can provide huge benefits," said Warren Williams, vice president of technology consultancy InfoTech. "But the downside is that voice has always been a mission-critical application, and when we lose voice, it's like our doors are closed."

22 February 2008

Consumer VoIP subscriber growth continues to soar in Western Europe, reaching 21.7 million at mid-year 2007, up from 15.6 million only six months earlier. TeleGeography estimates that the ranks of European VoIP subscribers had grown to 28.9 million by year-end 2007.

02 April 2008

VoIP technology has been steadily growing in use over the course of the last five years. As broadband Internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous, more users are finding that it’s easy to place voice calls through their computers. However, the growth of VoIP hasn’t peaked yet. The average person uses both mobile phones and computers on a daily basis but doesn’t yet make use of VoIP technology to streamline their communication.

15 November 2007

Broadband is about to get ``naked'' in a move that may further reduce dependence on the traditional fixed-line telephone.

iiNet announced it will be the first internet service provider in Australia to offer broadband ADSL2+ (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) without the need for a telephone service, also known as Naked DSL.

This means customers will not have to pay for a fixed line rental just to keep their ADSL connection going.

17 October 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — MySpace and Skype announced Tuesday they are meshing social networking with Internet telephony, creating the largest voice-connected online community on Earth.

The partnership comes as MySpace rival Facebook gains ground and Internet telephony pioneer Skype struggles for ways to profit from the technology.

Skype will craft its voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) into MySpace instant messaging software worldwide by December, letting website members easily call each other's computers free of charge.