VoIP General News

30 September 2006

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, in a New York Times interview advocates "Net neutrality", or limiting Internet service providers' control over information, and talks about the future of Internet TV.

"We expect to see, very importantly, television streaming over the Internet, which is going to make a very exciting market in television content and maybe entertainment, maybe educational ideas," says.

28 July 2006

Behemoth adopts self-cannibalisation strategy

Known as "VoIP" in phone circles — short for Voice over Internet Protocol — it is the latest iteration of the communications revolution that began with Bell's telephone in 1876. Now VoIP, a 20-year-old technology, seems poised to become a fixture in the lives of millions of Americans.

16 April 2007

Vonage is trying to have it both ways with its talk of "workarounds."

The term refers to VoIP technology Vonage would use instead of the stuff a district court found it guilty of "borrowing" from Verizon.

Vonage has been talking to the media about said workarounds for weeks now. The promise of workarounds was/is Vonage's main assurance to customers and investors that its service will not be shut down, even if all its legal options run out.

17 June 2007

According to Market Clarity's "Aussie VoIP List" -  a frequently updated list of companies in Australia providing VoIP services - there were 260 such organisations at 04 June 2007. However this list embraces all those from the very small to the very large providing very different types of services.

16 December 2006

NEW YORK (AP) - Vonage tanked after its IPO. It's not entirely clear anymore why eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype. And the long-awaited rollout of advanced TV services based on Internet technologies has resembled the drip of a faucet.

It wasn't a banner year for some of the biggest names in Internet Protocol, the technical standard that makes the Web hum. But the technology itself continued to blossom, with newer innovations picking away at every corner of the telecommunications business, from voice to video to wireless.

31 October 2006

In the past, vendors had to contend with little in the way of competition for VoIP support services, in part because of the proprietary nature of their products.

As the market shifts over to software solutions that run on general purpose servers, however, IDC says this will change -- drastically. One upshot of this shift, IDC researchers suggest, is that a slew of third-party systems vendors and services providers will emerge to vie for market laurels.

24 September 2006

30 July 2006

BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen has hit out at the promise of a future of free telephone calls for all.

In the last few months there have been numerous offers, including free internet telephone services which turn out to have small print or limitations that dilute the headline claim.

“One way or the other you [the customer] will pay for people to make investments. Otherwise you are getting your service from a charity,” Verwaayen told the Sunday Herald.

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