VoIP General News

25 September 2007

Being the busy, frugal SMB IT professional that you are, you’re always looking for ways to do things quicker and cheaper. When it comes to phone service, that might mean switching to VoIP. 

After all, VoIP is generally easier to manage and less expensive than traditional landline service. What you sacrifice in call quality, your reasoning goes, you more than make up for in setup time and cost.

11 November 2007

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."

26 September 2007

Students at the University of Portsmouth and their families will have access to free phone calls via their computers, thanks to a new scheme being implemented in student halls of residence.

The University has installed new facilities which will provide students with cheap telephone calls to families and friends – and in some cases for free - using Voice over IP (VoIP) technology. Access to over 25 television channels is also part of the package in student halls.

09 November 2007

It’s getting more difficult every day to tell the difference between Voice over IP and traditional phone service. That can be a good thing or it can be a bad thing, depending on how you look at it and what aspects you’re comparing.

14 January 2008

While the VoIP market is still at an early stage, it is becoming more prevalent in the Asia-Pacific region. We are seeing more operators launching VoIP, primarily as a means of challenging the public switched telecommunications network (PSTN) dominance of the incumbents.

27 September 2007

A 23-year-old hacker named Robert Moore hacked into 15 telecommunications companies and hundreds of businesses worldwide in order to net free VoIP minutes, which he and a partner then sold at highly discounted rates for a million in profit. Moore, set to head to prison, brags to Information Week that hacking into the systems of major VoIP carriers was "so easy a caveman could do it." From the interview: