VoIP General News

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.

21 December 2007

Currently 269 VoIP providers in the Australian market

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.

20 October 2007

Lots of talk about unified communications this week, thanks to Microsoft. But what CIOs really need to know is which feature will cause fellow execs to utter these words: "For that feature alone it's worth doing this system." I've got two examples.

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