iLocus |
August 19th, 2008 |
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The tremendously independent telecom policy maker of India, TRAI, has sent recommendations to DoT asking the admin guys to allow VoIP in its full... [[ Read the full story ]][...]
TeleGeography |
August 19th, 2008 |
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Municipally-owned telco Empresas Municipales de Cali (EmCali) has selected Chinese equipment vendor ZTE to build it a WiMAX mobile broadband network. ZTE said in a statement yesterday that it will deploy a 3.5GHz 802.16e WiMAX network covering Cali, Colombia's second largest city with two million inhabitants, and the Popayan region. [...]
Andy Abramson |
August 18th, 2008 |
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I think I have to worry about trying to update my Comunicano web site. It seems Skype Journal has been frozen by the lack of engineering support at Yahoo where I also host my business web page. Note-the page is about to change, but I wasn't planning on changing my [...]
Andy Abramson |
August 18th, 2008 |
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A quick read of a press release from Campbell, CA based research and analyst firm Infonetics shows that VoIP usage and uptake continues to grow the world over. It also points out who the big players are. Comcast in the USA leads the pick up here in the States. Orange [...]
GigaOM |
August 18th, 2008 |
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Updated: AT&T has stopped selling AT&T Callvantage to new customers, reports DSL Reports. AT&T, long before it merged with SBC had made a half-hearted attempt at getting into consumer VoIP by selling a service called, CallVantage. It was surprisingly good, especially its call quality. Unfortunately, the company never quite made [...]
VoIP News |
August 17th, 2008 |
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GrameenPhone is in hot water in Bangladesh. It seems the VoIP provider partook in illegal call termination schemes, violating rules set by the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission. The company was ordered to pay a $37 million fine. Sounds like it was handled seriously. Or was it? According to TMCnet: This [...]
VoIP News |
August 17th, 2008 |
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EvaPhone has an interesting model. It takes something that isn't cheap: international calls and makes them more accessible. See EvaPhone give out free international VoIP in exchange for watching some ads. Easy peasy. The Russian-company offers a web-based VoIP application. According to Information Week: In tests, the service was easy [...]
Andy Abramson |
August 16th, 2008 |
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With more people using their laptops for Voice over IP via softphones this new Wake Up technology from Intel has a lot of GREEN benefits. Now we can turn off the laptop or desktop, but when a call comes in (Video or VoIP) the PC will wake up. Wake up [...]
Andy Abramson |
August 15th, 2008 |
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Over on DSL Reports is a note that AT&T; has stopped putting new customers on their VoIP platform called CallVanatge. While current customers are not affected, it looks like any new additions are a thing of the past for the foreseeable future. As a CallVantage customer, I have yet to [...]
TeleGeography |
August 15th, 2008 |
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Norwegian broadband telephony provider Telio has announced results for the second quarter, posting a net profit of NOK20.6 million (USD3.82 million) for the three months ended 30 June 2008, a 568% rise year-on-year. Revenues also increased, although less dramatically, rising 7% from NOK90.4 million last year to NOK96.7 million. Telio [...]
TeleGeography |
August 15th, 2008 |
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GrameenPhone has agreed to pay a fine of BDT2.5 billion (USD37 million) to the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) for its involvement in illegal call termination via VoIP technology, reports local paper the Daily Star. This is the second penalty for unlicensed VoIP telephony provision that the regulator has levied [...]
VoIP News |
August 15th, 2008 |
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Oh yea, baby. That's what I'm talking about. Intel is working on four new motherboards that will feature a wake when VoIP rings feature. Nice. So you can let your computer sleep without worrying about missing phone calls. Talk about good news in a trying financial time - after all, [...]
VoIP News |
August 14th, 2008 |
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VoIP News of the UK has the scoop on the GIPS solution that's bringing VoIP to the iPhone. Fring made a parody of the Olympic rings and VoIP Watch is all over it. Is it a trademark infringement? The Citrix blog has some handy tips on using GoToMeeting - particularly [...]
VoIP News |
August 14th, 2008 |
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Bye-bye, Cisco! It's been a good run. But it's time to go . . . The Cisco VoIP system installed in Oakland, California, in 2003 has been removed. In its place is a new ShoreTel system. The unified communications system isn't used by the Emergency 911 system there though. Check [...]
VoIP News |
August 14th, 2008 |
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Nortel has added an open-source platform VoIP to its repetoir. The company has acquired Pingtel from Bluesocket. Pingtel is responsible for sipXecs, an open source platform. According to Channel Web: "The acquisition is another building block in Nortel's vision to be a software-centric company and the leading provider of unified [...]
VoIP News |
August 14th, 2008 |
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Hosted VoIP and IP-PBX is surging. According to a new report from Infonetics, revenue rose by 52 percent in 2007, after growing 66 percent in 2006. The growth is expected to continue. "While VoIP services are being embraced by consumers worldwide, businesses have been comparatively slower in their adoption due [...]
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