Archived VoIP News

Tuesday, September 30th

• When will VoIP reach mainstream adoption in the Australian market?

  VoIP is gathering pace around the world, but is still to hit the mainstream in Australia. Many global vendors have been rubbing their hands at the prospect of extended VoIP deployment.
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Thursday, September 25th

• Q2 2008 VoIP Numbers

  Some interesting 2Q08 VoIP numbers to share put out by iLocus. VoIP shows some slowing in some sectors, but growth in others. Considering the unstable U.S. economy, these numbers are still very impressive....

• VoIP keeps communications up during Ike

  Mitel, J&J Communications and Natural Convergence teamed to provide uninterrupted communications during Hurricane Ike through the use of hosted VoIP. Residents using legacy TDM services lost their service during the storm and had long waits to get reactivated, while J&J's hosted customers in the Galveston area maintained their service throughout the hurricane's onslaught, according to CEO Scott Kellogg....

Tuesday, September 23rd

• Android: No VOIP for You -- and Other Oddities With the Google Phone

  If this is not intended to compete with the iPhone, but with platforms like Windows Mobile (see this earlier Wired story on the planning of Android), why show up with just one model of the phone? Doing so takes away from the power of Android as Google sees it: an open (more on that in a second) OS capable of freeing the wireless web through widespread distribution. Going live with just one handset also sets up inevitable comparisons between the HTC Android phone and the iPhone, one which HTC wins in some cases, such as the responsive keyboard, and loses in others, such as the bulky size. Now the Touch HD, that would have been a fair fight....

Monday, September 22nd

• Number of VoIP users quadruples

  The number of voice over IP (VoIP) users in Europe has quadrupled in two years, driven by aggressive pricing for bundled communications services, says telecommunications analyst Telegeography....

Thursday, September 18th

• VoIP market 'robust in 2008'

  Europe has become an innovator in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) over the last two years, research has found. Further growth is predicted and technological advancement has led to a robust market in 2008 for VoIP, Research and Markets reports....

Wednesday, September 17th

• Polycom Demonstrates Continued Commitment to Delivering High-Quality, Interoperable Voice Over IP Solutions

  Demonstrating its continued leadership and commitment to open standards, the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communications solutions, today announced expanded voice over IP (VoIP) interoperability for its SpectraLink(R) 8000 Series wireless telephones using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Polycom is the leading independent provider of open, standards-based IP phones, and is building upon SpectraLink's traditional integration with leading VoIP proprietary protocols by extending interoperability to open VoIP standards. ...

Monday, September 15th

• i2 Telecom Releases BlackBerry and Windows Mobile VoIP Service

  i2Telecom International has launched MyGlobalTalk for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile users, allowing them to make international and long distance cellular calls independent of wireless carrier, smartphone handset make, or voice or data plan for as low as two cents per minute anywhere in the world. ...

Sunday, September 14th

• Options To Replace Landline Phone Service Abound

  If you have not rethought your home phone service, now might be the time. Intense competition among companies and technologies has traditional standalone phone service from a Ma Bell descendant seemingly going the way of the dodo....

Friday, September 12th

• The future of Skype

  Revenue at eBay-owned VoIP service Skype was up 51% in the most recent fiscal quarter -- a rate of revenue growth that is twice that of the same quarter a year ago. But the larger question of how Skype fits in with eBay's overall strategy is still up in the air, and a sale is a possibility, according to this article...

Thursday, September 11th

• Apple’s new 2G iPod touch VoIP capable; free or low-cost phone calls over Wi-Fi

  The newest version of Apple’s iPod Touch contains the hardware necessary to enable free or low-cost phone calls over wi-fi, Lonnie Lazar reports for Cult of Mac....

Wednesday, September 10th

• VoIP over iPhone Banned in Germany

  A German court has banned the use of VoIP on iPhones, agreeing with carrier T-Mobile, according to CBC. Using VoIP over the iPhone’s Wi-Fi connection doesn’t cost users valuable airtime. In fact, since plans include unlimited internet, that makes the calls free. However the judge who granted the injuction said that it opens the doors to other abuses of the phone....