Residential News 

Sunday, May 3rd

• iTelecom added to WhichVoIP Database

  iTelecom VoIP plans have been added to the WhichVoIP Database. Details are available for plans starting as low as $10.88, up to $18.88 for unlimited plans....

Friday, April 17th

• Saving with VoIP: The Vonage option

  You've heard the pitch: Sign up with Vonage and get your first three months for only $9.95! It is really that simple? Not quite. I signed up and set up the service on one of my land lines this week to try it out. So far I've been pleased with the results....

Saturday, April 11th

• Founders Plot Buying Back Skype from Ebay

  The founders of Skype, who sold their internet telephony company to eBay in 2005 in a deal that has yet to pay off for the online auctioneer, seem to be positioning themselves to buy the company back, the New York Times reports....

Monday, April 6th

• HyperDog VoIP Plans added to WhichVoIP VoIP Provider Database

  HyperDog VoIP Plans have been added to the WhichVoIP Provider Database. Plans range from $14.99 for the Home Basic, to $24.99 to the Popular Unlimited plan....

• VON Calls on Mobile Broadband Operators to Stop Blocking VoIP

  The Voice On the Net Coalition (VON), which includes Microsoft, Skype, BT and Intel among its membership list, has called on the Europe Union (EU) to take action against Mobile Broadband operators that deliberately block Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services from being used on their cellular/3G networks....

Friday, April 3rd

• FCC Asked to Investigate Skype for iPhone Restriction

  Since its release on Tuesday, Skype for iPhone has been downloaded more than a million times -- that's a rate of six downloads a second, according to the company. All this despite the fact the software only works via the iPhone's Wi-Fi connection, and not AT&T's 3G network....

Tuesday, March 31st

• Skype for iPhone Promises New Features

  Today, just in time for CTIA Wireless 2009, the big phone conference in Las Vegas, Skype is releasing its application for the iPhone. The company said a BlackBerry version would soon follow....

Monday, March 23rd

• Call Me At Home

  Who gives their home phone a second thought these days? Cellular is where it's at: Mobile phones are personal and move with us; they carry our identities. The old, wired landline phones tie us down. But while anchored to the past, innovation for the home telephone is not dead. Two giant companies have new and interesting products for consumers that redefine what you can do with a home telephone. One is very smart. One, less so. ...

Sunday, March 22nd

• Skype VoIP Version 4.0 Improves Skype Video Calling

  Skype Limited has rolled out a new release of its VoIP communications software on Tuesday. The new 4.0 version enhances voice-over-IP video calling and has a built-in Internet bandwidth manager which provides faster data transfers using a microphone or webcam. In addition, it offers users state-of-the-art wideband audio quality during phone calls....

Tuesday, March 17th

• iPhone 3.0: Apple Adds VoIP APIs

  Apple Inc. gave a preview of the upcoming iPhone 3.0 software upgrade – no new hardware, people – on Tuesday. The takeaway? The new version provides little additional excitement but does, however, give developers more to work with, including native VoIP support....

Wednesday, March 11th

• Comcast's VoIP Makes It a Top 3 Telco

  In just over three years, Comcast has grown to become the third-largest residential phone service provider in the U.S., it said on Wednesday. Comcast now has 6.47 million subscribers to its VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service, available in 39 states, giving the cable operator more residential customers than Qwest Communications International, according to Comcast.
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Thursday, March 5th

• After Slow Start, VoIP Is Taking Off In Europe

  After a slow start in some European countries, voice over IP is finally catching on in a big way, according to a Thursday report on fixed VoIP lines. In the survey of fixed-line VoIP usage, telecommunications market research firm TeleGeography said usage had jumped from 20 million consumers to 30 million between mid-2007 and mid-2008. TeleGeography estimated 35 million VoIP lines were in use in Europe by the end of 2008.
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Wednesday, March 4th

• What is this VoIP I keep hearing about?

  Put the tinfoil hat away, friend. VoIP is simply the acronym for 'Voice over Internet Protocol.' Even more simply put, it's telephone service through your computer. Like mobile phones, this is yet another consumer option that's likely driving your traditional phone carriers like Ma Bell crazy. Most people -- myself included -- feel this is awesome.
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Tuesday, March 3rd

• Skype Gives Back to VoIP

  One of the first pieces of good news to come out of eComm Tuesday in San Francisco is the announcement from Jonathan Christensen, Skype’s General Manager for Audio and Video, that the company’s SILK wideband voice codec will soon be provided to third party software and hardware developers with a royalty-free license....

Monday, March 2nd

• Windows handheld targets VoIP users

  Motorola has announced a Windows Mobile handheld computer targeting the retail, healthcare, and hospitality industries. Touted as the company's 'smallest and lightest' EDA (enterprise digital assistant), the MC5590 offers 'push-to-talk' IP telephony, a 3.5-inch QVGA screen, 802.11a/b/g wireless networking, Bluetooth, and several different keyboard options.
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Sunday, October 26th

• VoIP software released for Android

  A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) application has been released for Google’s Android operating system. The software, called iSkoot for Skype, means that owners of the new T-Mobile G1 Android handset can make low-cost international telephone calls.
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Tuesday, October 14th

• Microsoft Pushes VoIP to Fend off Cisco

  Microsoft today unveiled its next-generation Communications Server product that will allow users to replace their existing phone systems with Microsoft’s software. It’s about time Redmond pushed its VoIP offering further. The product, which goes on sale in February 2009, replaces a PBX system with Microsoft’s VoIP software on a server, allowing employees to make calls to any phone number, to make calls from within Microsoft documents and adding audio conferencing....

Saturday, October 11th

• How unhappy are you with the joiphone VoIP Service?

  It seems that a number of people have been complaining about the service or lack of it, that they are getting with the joiphone VoIP Service. The company seems to have a problem but do not want to let their customers know, as they have been constantly lying....

Friday, October 10th

• Mystery Mobile VoIP Technology Available Next Month?

  An almost decade-long effort to bring an unknown wireless broadband technology to the U.S. is set to bear fruit next month in Florida after XG Technology Inc. scored a $375 million infrastructure deal backed by a secretive Swiss billionaire. Earlier this week the Financial Times said Sarasota, Fla.-based XG scored a $375 million deal from an investment firm owned by Johan Bohman to start deploying XG’s low-power wireless base stations. So far I’m taking this story with a heaping grain of salt, especially since other reports call this guy a reclusive Swedish billionaire, and there are allegations of fraud regarding a member of the company’s management team, plus uncertainty about the technology....

Monday, October 6th

• Verizon Loses Cox VoIP Patent Suit: Good News For Time Warner, Cablevision

  Telco giant Verizon (VZ) squeezed $117.5 million and a lot of life out of Internet phone provider Vonage (VG) last year in a long patent war. Now it's trying to do the same thing to the cable industry. But that will be much harder to do: Not only are the cable guys in much stronger position financially than Vonage, they may now have legal precdent on their side....