Dialogic announces that SIPxchange chose Dialogic as its core technology provider. The Dialogic ControlSwitch System and media gateway solutions provide SIPxchange with robust routing capabilities, while supporting both TDM and IP traffic. This positions SIPxchange to reliably and cost-effectively support its rapidly expanding DID origination, Toll-Free and VoIP Termination network that provides ubiquitous Local Access Transport Area coverage in the key markets of Texas.

In need of a reliable solution that would support its existing customer base while allowing for growth throughout the United States, SIPxchange chose Dialogic for its strong leadership position in class 4 switching, support for SS7, its carrier-grade Dialogic I-Gate 4000 PRO Media Gateway, and an extensive array of Codecs and Protocols, including SIP, MGCP, H.323, T.38, G.711, G.729, G.723, GSM. In addition, as VoIP becomes the emerging choice for business among carriers within the United States, SIPxchange needed a solution that would allow for cost-effective direct interconnection to the Legacy PSTN Tandems. Dialogic's ControlSwitch System, with its distributed media gateway architecture, provides reliability and scalability for interconnection to the PSTN.

Dialogic's ControlSwitch System and media gateway solutions require very little in the way of hardware equipment, and as a result, SIPxchange was able to reduce its number of servers from 17 to four, thereby further reducing its capital and operational expenditures and moving toward a more eco-friendly business model.

Ooma is expanding into the Canadian market. Beginning today, Canadians can now choose to receive free crystal-clear calls to any phone number within Canada with the one-time purchase of the Ooma Telo. For Premier subscribers in the U.S., Ooma has now expanded the free-calling area to Canada as well.

The innovative Ooma Telo device plugs into a high-speed Internet connection and existing home phone to provide free phone calls and bundled features including voicemail, caller ID, call waiting and 911 service. After the initial purchase, customers pay only applicable taxes and fees. Based on an average phone bill of $40/month, the Ooma Telo pays for itself in just six months and customers will save more than $200 in the first year, more than $600 in just two years and nearly $2,000 in five years.

The Ooma Telo is able to deliver superior call quality because of its PureVoice HD technology, a bundle of five technologies, including:

• Adaptive redundancy to avoid voice quality sounding stuttered or garbled due to packet loss. The Ooma Telo detects packet loss on the Internet connection and automatically sends redundant packets to boost the clarity of phone calls.
• Advanced voice compression that reduces bandwidth consumption by 60 percent over standard VoIP technology and is more capable of withstanding packet loss without degradation.
• Wire-speed QoS allows the Ooma Telo to prioritize voice packets without slowing down the rest of home network to help ensure crystal-clear calls.
• Secure, encrypted calls using the same encryption technology that governments use to protect classified data. Using the Ooma Telo, phone conversations are even more secure than over a traditional landline.
• Ooma HD Voice technology doubles the fidelity of phone calls by capturing twice the speech information of a standard voice call so conversations sound more lifelike (HD-compatible phone required).

Customers who select the optional Ooma Premier service for $9.99 a month can enjoy advanced features like call screening, three-way conferencing, call forwarding, blacklisting, 911 notifications, distinctive ringtones and a multi-ring option so home and cell phones ring at once.

Ooma customers have the option to choose a new home phone number for free or to port their existing phone number for a one-time fee of $39.99. Annual subscribers to the Ooma Premier service can choose to port an existing home phone number at no additional charge. Ooma also offers an affordable international calling plan to 61 countries for as little as a penny per minute. Calls made between Ooma devices anywhere in the world are always free.

Ooma customers can save even more money on their mobile calling plan by tapping into their Ooma account on the go and making phone calls over any Wi-Fi or 3G network with the Ooma Mobile HD app. The Ooma Mobile HD app is compatible with Android devices as well as the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It costs $9.99 to download from app stores.

The Ooma Telo is now available at Amazon.ca and London Drug in Canada at an M.S.R.P. of $229.99 CAD. Ooma Telo includes a one-year limited warranty, a 30-day money back guarantee and a free 60-day trial of Ooma Premier service. Live customer service is available by phone in both English and French. See www.ooma.com/ca for more information.

Internet phone service ITP VoIP is showcasing its fully featured VoIP hosted PBX plans and encouraging small business owners to take advantage of their value and comprehensive functionalities. The digital phone company offers a roster of VoIP business features with every plan.

ITP VoIP’s Call Forwarding feature, for instance, allows the user to have calls from one line forwarded to another, such as a cell phone — a capability ideal for someone who splits his or her business between home and the road.

Similarly, taking advantage of ITP VoIP’s Universal Number feature, clients have the option of choosing a domestic U.S. or international number, allowing them to pick the area code or country they’d like the number to be in. Using this feature, a business could keep up the appearance of operating within any given geographic area they choose.

Both of these features - and many more - are complimentary with all of ITP VoIP’s plans, though the VoIP provider has a collection of premium features, such as e-faxing and softphone service, that can be added on at any time for a small fee.

Affordability is another of ITP VoIP’s many attributes. VoIP plans are known for being inexpensive, because the company uses an online rather than wire signal, and ITP VoIP’s plans range from just $9.99 to $49.99 a month. Each plan also comes with a free digital phone adapter and router, and the company also offers its new clients their first month of service free.

Because ITP VoIP uses plug-and-play adapters and routers, the home phone service installation process is extremely simple. If a client does experience difficulty during installation, he or she can call the company’s customer support line. For less pressing matters or general inquiries, clients can turn to the ITP VoIP site’s Online Support FAQ section, or fill out a customer support form. General maintenance is a snap as well - all of the hosting equipment is located at ITP VoIP’s headquarters, where it’s monitored round the clock by the company’s expert staff.

Offering paperless billing, ITP VoIP is also a favorite VoIP provider among the eco-friendly who want to do their part for the environment but can’t always find an inexpensive way to do so.

VoIP Innovations announced the expansion of its VoIP termination footprint and service offering for SIP providers. VoIP Innovations has been at the forefront of VoIP expansion and innovation for nearly a decade. It is the underlying carrier for several hundred Hosted PBX, Calling Card Providers, Carriers and Resellers offering VoIP service.

VoIP Innovations has a business model that is uniquely different than those of traditional carriers. VoIP Innovations offers their own termination routes as well as routes from dozens of the top US and Canadian termination carriers. In addition to aggregation benefit, VoIP Innovations large traffic volume, allows them to provides a more competitive pricing model than most clients would get direct from those carriers.

VoIP Innovations is also one of the nation's largest short duration termination providers, also known as dialer or predictive traffic. While most carriers have shunned away from this type of traffic, VoIP Innovations has embraced it. If fact, they invested in their infrastructure to add additional capacity. This upgrade was necessary for the growing demand that would allow several of their dialer clients to have a virtually unlimited amount of concurrent call sessions.

Network infrastructure and voice quality is top priority for VoIP Innovations. They are always looking for additional high quality voip routes. But managing several million routes is no easy task. "We recently deployed proprietary software which provides better route and pricing management.” Stated Tim Linn, Lead Engineer for VoIP Innovations.

It’s clear that choosing the correct termination carrier/partner has become a large part of succeeding in the ever changing voice over IP world. With the wave a newcomers to this market place, it has become increasingly harder and harder to decipher the real players from the “two guys and a free switch” player. VoIP Innovations has quickly earned a reputation for providing a carrier class termination service that rivals the large telcos.

TalkSwitch has appointed Gentek as an official distributor for Canada. Gentek is a leading North American distributor of Broadband, Network Security and VoIP products and solutions. Gentek has added TalkSwitch IP PBX phone systems to their impressive line of vendors, offering VARs and resellers the best choices for their Canadian SMB customers.

TalkSwitch IP PBX phone systems come loaded with the features small businesses need to sound professional, save money and stay connected anywhere. The features include built-in voicemail, voicemail to e-mail, auto attendants, music on hold, mobile phone integration, remote management and support for analog and IP handsets. Capacity is up to 64 users per location, and TalkSwitch hybrid IP PBX phone systems work with the traditional telephone network and VoIP. Systems start at CDN$745.

XO Communications has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the leading VoIP and SIP trunking services provider and capturing the largest market share among service providers by delivering superior customer satisfaction and value.

Frost & Sullivan has conferred on XO Communications the 2010 North American Competitive Strategy Leadership Award in the VoIP access and SIP trunking services market. In addition, Frost & Sullivan recently published a report naming XO Communications as the leading VoIP Access and SIP trunking provider in terms of enterprise VoIP end users.

VoIP and SIP Trunking Services Award

The Frost & Sullivan award recognizes XO Communications for its strong customer and revenue growth in the VoIP and SIP trunking services market, robust services portfolio, and commitment to innovation, superior service and value. Specifically, the award highlighted that XO Communications consistently offers VoIP, SIP trunking and managed services that leverage the latest technology and service models and meet the needs of small business customers who look for streamlined products at a lower cost and large businesses that focus on scalable, robust and versatile solutions. In addition, the award noted the XO brand is associated with high service levels, stringent provisioning standards and excellent value for money.

VoIP Access and SIP Trunking Services Market Leadership

The Frost & Sullivan award recognized XO Communications as the leader in the VoIP access and SIP trunking services market, with 22.2 percent of the market, attributing the company's strong growth and impressive performance to new customer additions and an ever-expanding network footprint in key business regions. In addition, Frost & Sullivan, in its "North American VoIP Access and SIP Trunking Services Market" study published in April, also named XO Communications as having the largest share of the market in terms of corporate end users.

XO Communications is an industry innovator and leader in providing advanced IP-based communications solutions for businesses and large enterprises. The company's portfolio of award-winning VoIP and SIP trunking services includes XO IP Flex, XO IP Flex with VPN, XO Anywhere, XO iPBX, XO SIP and XO Enterprise SIP.

Intermedia launched its hosted PBX service. The service is VoIP-based and integrates with Intermedia's hosted Exchange email service -- enabling customers to access not only hosted PBX features such as unlimited domestic calling and extension dialing, but also unified communications features such as "voicemail to email" and "click to call."

Hosted PBX, like all Intermedia services, is managed from the company's proprietary HostPilot Control Panel, providing customers a single point of communications control. "We developed hosted PBX in response to feedback from our customers," says Serguei Sofinski, CEO, Intermedia. "Just as they use our Exchange service to avoid the cost and complexity of on-premise Exchange servers, they want a hosted PBX service to avoid the cost and complexity of on-premise PBX systems. By connecting email and voice, we are bringing unified communications -- and all its productivity benefits -- to small businesses that it was previously inaccessible to."

"Many SMBs who are still using basic telephone service to run their business will benefit from the professional image a hosted PBX service like Intermedia brings. Through the Intermedia offering, companies can set up Exchange-based unified communications -- enabling employees to manage email and voice services from Outlook," says Michael Osterman of industry analyst firm Osterman Research. "An organization that makes extensive use of email, telephony or real time communications -- or that will want to do so in the future -- will realize enormous benefits from the use of a unified communications infrastructure."

Intermedia's hosted PBX service includes:

• Voice menu that greets callers and routes incoming calls
• Hunt groups to route calls across sales, customer service or other teams -- assuring important calls are always answered quickly
• Flat-rate, per-user monthly charges with unlimited calling in the US and Canada
• Easy online administration through Intermedia's HostPilot Control Panel
• Quick in-office dialing with extension dialing
• Find me/follow me so employees can set up another phone number -- such as a mobile phone or home office phone -- that rings when their primary phone isn't answered
• Voicemails delivered via voicemail-to-email to an email inbox as a .wav attachment, making it easy to store or forward to anyone with an email address

Hosted PBX expands into a full unified communications service when customers add hosted Microsoft Office Communications Server and the OCS Calling feature. OCS is a business-class instant messaging service. With Intermedia's service, calls can be placed to any instant messaging contact in OCS or any contact in Outlook just with a click of the mouse.

Every Intermedia hosted PBX account also comes with end user features including a direct phone number, unique extension, E911 Service, caller ID, call waiting, call transfer, call forwarding and 3-way calling.

Intermedia is offering hosted PBX at a promotional rate of $25+taxes/month per user for the first three months. The VoIP service is provided to Intermedia customers exclusively by its VoIP partner, Unison Communications, Inc.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "USA - VoIP Market - Analysis, Statistics and Forecasts" report to their offering. Strong subscriber and revenue growth rates have positioned VoIP firmly on the US telecommunications map. Since the entry of Comcast and other cable companies, VoIP services have been emerging apace. In 2010 the US cable companies were providing telephone services to more than 20 million subscribers. Non-facilities based, or pure play, VoIP providers, such as Skype, are making strong inroads into the US VoIP market.

The VoIP market has also witnessed the entry of Microsoft and Apple and Internet giants Google and Yahoo! Mobile VoIP is poised for exponential growth, underpinned by the widespread adoption of WiFi-enabled handsets. The deployment of 3G networks, of the Clear WiMAX network on which Sprint Nextel and others provide mobile services, and the decisions by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility to upgrade to an open access LTE platform for their 4G investments will propel mobile VoIP into the mainstream of mobile telecommunications.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Synopsis

2. VoIP market 2.1 Overview 2.2 VoIP statistics 2.3 VoIP regulation

3. VoIP technology in the US 3.1 Overview 3.2 History 3.3 IP telephony gateways 3.4 Value-added features 3.5 Hosted VoIP solutions 3.6 Circuit-to-packet network migration 3.7 IP-based private networks and computer telephony integration 3.8 Mobile VoIP

4. Major VoIP providers 4.1 Cable VoIP 4.2 Alternative providers 4.3 Telco VoIP

5. Forecasts 5.1 Forecasts - VoIP market to 2013 5.2 Notes on scenario forecasts

6. Related reports

Phone.com and TurboBridge are partnering to make a High Definition telephone audio conferencing service available to Phone.com’s installed user base. This new HD phone service launch comes just 3 months after Phone.com introduced its own HD Business Phone service, and it represents one of the most compelling business applications for HD voice.

TurboBridge recently launched the world’s first High Definition audio conferencing service. Powered by the company’s patent-pending TurboSound technology, TurboBridge offers quality HD audio combined with standard business conferencing features such as call recording, support for up to 250 conference participants, and lecture and Q&A modes. In addition, TurboBridge offers more access methods than any other conferencing service in the world, providing features such as direct connectivity for IP PBX’s and IP telephone handsets via a public SIP URI.

TurboBridge HD voice service can be accessed through any IP method, (Skype, SIP or TurboPhone) and has the extra benefit of being free (no telecom charges) while offering the highest audio quality in the business. These perks make TurboBridge a great solution for road warriors and international enterprises.

Phone.com and TurboBridge are partnering to give Phone.com customers their own dedicated conference access number as well as speed dial access from their Phone.com Virtual Office telephone handsets to their own dedicated conference bridges. Those Phone.com customers who have the new HD Voice Polycom HD phones will be able to enjoy their conference calls in crystal clear HD quality audio.

Phone.com will initially offer the enhanced TurboBridge conferencing service to its customers free of charge, further reinforcing its “all included” philosophy when it comes to bundling and selling services.

Broadvox announces GO!Hosted, a feature rich hosted IP PBX offering, during the 2010 Broadvox Partner Summit in Dallas, Texas. Long recognized as a VoIP/SIP Trunking technology leader, GO!Hosted makes it possible for companies to enjoy a comprehensive suite of PBX features at a dramatically lower price point.

With GO!Hosted customers will receive a feature rich package of options with powerful administrative control and broad range of end-user options. Traditional PBX features are delivered at a fraction of the cost which opens the door for smaller companies to appear as larger sophisticated businesses while benefiting from the improved levels of productivity associated with state of the art applications like unified communications.

GO!Hosted establishes a new paradigm in pricing for a hosted PBX service. The average cost per extension is approximately two-thirds less than what is charged by most other hosted VoIP providers for similar services. This is accomplished by separating the price of the per extension license fee from the usage of local and long distance calling. This means that companies with a high number of extensions but low usage will pay less than companies with the same number of extensions but with higher usage. No longer will companies pay for usage from seldom used phones in conference rooms, kitchens, warehouses or reception areas.

In addition to a much lower system cost, GO!Hosted solution includes a user-friendly administrative portal for simple and quick administration of user profiles, features and system configurations. The portal supports the requirements of SMBs, call centers and enterprise branch offices and telecommuting workers. High Definition voice quality is delivered supported ba a nationwide robust IP communications network with 24/7 technical support. No additional software licenses or equipment, other than IP Phones is requires for activation. GO!Hosted is subscription based and scalable to support company growth and expansion without sacrificing any features or benefits.

Certified with handsets and softphones from industry leaders such as Polycom, Cisco, Linksys, Grandstream, Bria Softphone and others, GO!Hosted is the latest addition to the Broadvox GO! solution offering for businesses. GO!Hosted software and servers are maintained by Broadvox thus eliminating administrative overhead costs. Companies that choose a Broadvox GO! SIP Trunking solution along with GO!Hosted will save even more on their telecom spend while maximizing the flexibility of IP communications.

VoicePulse announces the immediate availability of phone numbers in Minnesota’s 218, 320, 612, 651 and 763 area codes. VoicePulse’s residential and business plans cover 47 calling areas, giving Minnesota’s citizens a new option in local and long distance phone service.

VoicePulse Broadband Phone service plans include over 20 features such as:

• Telemarketer Blocking, Virtual Numbers, Anonymous Call Rejection, Call Transfer and Call Hunt
• YouMail, the premier voicemail provider
• Local Number Portability

Plans for home users include:

• America Unlimited - local, regional and US long distance calling for $24.99 per month
• Local Unlimited - local, regional and 200 US long distance minutes for 14.99 per month

Consumers only need a high-speed Internet connection and an ordinary touch-tone telephone to use the service. In addition, VoicePulse offers a variety of referral and affiliate programs including Refer-a-Friend for residential and business customers, a Partner Program for resellers and referral incentives for multi-unit properties.

VoicePulse also brings its VoIP services to business and wholesale customers with VoicePulse SIP trunking. Businesses using IP PBXs such as Digium's Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Switchvox, Fonality's PBXtra, trixbox, FreePBX, or FreeSwitch will find that VoicePulse is the perfect complement with its one-of-a-kind, one-click auto-configuration module.

8x8 announces the release of "8x8 Virtual Office Mobile," a WiFi-driven extension of the 8x8 Virtual Office VoIP business phone service customized for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

Available as a free download in the App Store, "8x8 Virtual Office Mobile" enables subscribers to utilize their Virtual Office phone number and service remotely from within any WiFi zone. "Virtual Office Mobile" essentially converts an iPhone or iPod Touch to a Virtual Office extension, equipped with the features, functionality and built-in cost savings of the powerful 8x8 Virtual Office hosted PBX phone service, including unlimited inbound and outbound domestic calling as well as overseas calling at competitive 8x8 international rates. Inbound calls to the Virtual Office extension can be retrieved from either an 8x8 IP desktop phone, the 8x8 Virtual Office Pro unified communications portal or the iPhone/iPod Touch mobile handset. Outbound calls can be made directly through the mobile handset just as with any extension on the Virtual Office service. Users can also perform functions such as extension dialing, call transfers, 3-way calling, and voicemail notification and retrieval.

Junction Networks announces that its OnSIP Hosted PBX has been recognized by VoIP Evolution as one of the top VoIP Advances in 2009 with the introduction of My.OnSIP, a browser based unified communications tool combining phone presence, IM and real time status notifications. The first hosted tool of its kind, My.OnSIP allows users to see the status of other users within their organization, seamlessly make and transfer calls with the click of a mouse and conduct secure and private IM sessions with colleagues.

The addition of features such as My.OnSIP, according to VoIP Evolution, have further blurred the lines between hosted and on-premise IP PBXs, making hosted models more appealing with lower prices, more features, and no system maintenance. Included in the list of 25 Advances was also the addition of HD Voice services, which OnSIP has recently added to its long list of features.

OnSIP customers can take advantage of My.OnSIP at no additional cost, with plans starting as low as $39.99 per month.

Bandwidth.com announces the general availability of wholesale voice origination on the FlexNetwork– its nationwide, all-IP voice network. The FlexNetwork is quickly becoming the network of choice for Voice 2.0 innovators because it features the latest IP voice technology, full geographic redundancy for mission-critical applications, and an API that allows companies to integrate into the FlexNetwork’s number management system. Additionally, Bandwidth.com works with FlexNetwork customers to expose new functionality, such as SMS capability, that allows Voice 2.0 application providers to enhance their offerings to customers.

Services such as Voxeo, Ifbyphone, OnState & Yext have been early adopters of the FlexNetwork as nationwide rate-centers have come on-line over the past year. In fact, the network is already on pace to deliver almost 4 billion minutes of voice service in 2009, with well over 1 million phone numbers. Here are real-world examples of innovative applications that are using the FlexNetwork today: “Ifbyphone’s mission is simple: we automated phone calls,” said Irv Shapiro, CEO of Ifbyphone. “With our platform, customers can route and track inbound calls, automate outbound calls, and create complete IVR experiences - all from an easy, web based portal. The FlexNetwork is a low-cost, flexible network that allows us to focus on our application platform.”

Bandwidth.com’s FlexNetwork is now generally available for wholesale voice origination and termination across the US. More information at http://flexnetwork.com or by calling the FlexNetwork team at 866-578-8999. See more about these Voice 2.0 innovators at Bandwidth.com’s blog, http://www.bandwidth.com/blog.

FlexNetwork Technical Specifications and Features:

• Protocols: SIP
• Currently Supported Codecs: - G.711u, G.729a
• Tested Codecs: - G.726 IP, G.726 AA12, G 723.1, G.723.1a, G.711a, G.729a, iLBC
• Nationwide Coverage: SIP Trunking, Origination/Termination
• Latest Sonus Networks Hardware
• Separate signaling and audio facilities for reliability and flexibility
• Built for VoIP; not burdened with legacy traffic

VoX Communications has become the first carrier to deploy a mobile VoIP unlimited data and voice phone in the U.S.

Pervasip's Chief Information Officer, Mark Richards, noted, "We have been working on perfecting this technology for over 12 months and our VoIP is now an integrated component of the operating system of the HTC Touch Pro 2 mobile phone. We are not merely an application running on the top of the phone, like some other VoIP providers. We are native to the phone so that the user cannot tell he is making a VoIP call. This advanced technology that utilizes low cost packet-switching over GSM cell phone towers nationwide, allows us to offer unlimited data and voice service on the Touch Pro 2 for only $69.95 a month. We believe the Touch Pro 2 is a brilliant device and that our service offering is the best one available. We are selling the service, prepaid on a credit card, on a month-to-month basis. We do not believe we need to lock up consumers in one or two year contracts, because they will realize that we have the best cost-to-value service available. We expect to launch other mobile products within 60 days. We are very pleased that VoX has finally transitioned from a wholesale landline VoIP provider into 'The Voice of Mobile Broadband.' We already have substantial demand for this product."

Richards continued, "This development effort has been very complex and it is nice to see the hard work from our technology team finally coming to fruition. The technology is high grade VoIP over the GSM data network, a very difficult technological achievement. In addition to our world-class technology team, we are pleased to acknowledge the significant contributions of Anderson Taylor, who has provided the software client application for the VoX Windows Mobile phone. The Touch Pro 2 and our service is immediately available to order from the VoX website at http://www.voxcorp.net."

XOP Network announces that San Isabel Telecom is using the XOP Networks' Universal Service Node with simultaneous T1 and SIP connectivity to provide voice mail to both traditional and VoIP customers. San Isabel Telecom is a facilities-based provider of voice and data services in several mountain regions of Colorado. The company was started by Doug Wagner in 1996 to meet the communications needs of the ever-growing Vail Valley. San Isabel also serves the Aspen and Basalt areas.

San Isabel Telecom has a TDM network with a Alcatel-Lucent 5ESS switch, and a next generation packet based VoIP network with a Cisco Gateway and Acme Packet Session Border Controller. San Isabel is meeting the challenge of providing voice mail to customers on the TDM network and the VoIP network at the same time by using the XOP Networks' USN to connect to the 5ESS switch and the VoIP based SBC equipment.

In addition to providing TDM and SIP connectivity, the USN based Voice Mail application allows voice mails to be accessed by telephone, web portal and PDAs such as iPhone and Blackberry. The PDA access is unique in that voice mails can be accessed in random order simply by a click on the PDA based web portal.

VoicePulse announces the immediate availability of phone numbers in the 605 area code for business and residential customers. VoicePulse now offers numbers in 32 rate centers across South Dakota, more than four times as many as well-known competitor, Vonage who currently has availability in just seven rate centers. VoicePulse now offers more coverage in the state of South Dakota than any other pure-play VoIP provider.

The addition of South Dakota's 605 area code allow consumers to port their current phone number to VoicePulse's residential or SIP Trunking services in addition to the option of choosing a new phone number. For those customers looking to port a number from a rate center not listed above, portability can be checked with VoicePulse's online availability tool at voicepulse.com/availability.

VoicePulse Residential and Home Office

Over 27 innovative features available, including:

• Telemarketer Blocking, Do Not Disturb, Anonymous Call Rejection, and Call Transfer
• Voicemail with optional e-mail delivery of messages as sound attachments
• Free Local Number Portability

Plan Pricing:

• Unlimited local, regional and US long distance calling for $24.99 per month
• Unlimited local, regional and 200 US long distance minutes for $14.99 per month

VoicePulse SIP Trunking for Business and Wholesale

VoicePulse also offers SIP Trunking and origination/termination services to businesses and commercial users. VoicePulse services are highly compatible with PBX clients such as Allworx , Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Fonality's PBXtra, FreePBX, FreeSwitch, PBX-in-a-Flash, 3CX, Switchvox, trixbox and more. In addition, VoicePulse offers a trixbox/FreePBX based auto-configuration module, giving businesses the ability to fully configure their own PBX.

VoicePulse provides comprehensive support services for businesses of all sizes - knowledgeable support teams answer questions via email and phone while advanced technical support is available to optimize VoicePulse service for the company's IP PBX. VoicePulse has received industry recognition for its excellence in customer support and service.

Phone.com announces that all customers will be able to take advantage of service upgrades including call recording, advanced call screening, and call tagging, all offered at no extra cost.

Call Recording enables customers to record a call. Once the call record key is hit both parties will hear a notification that their call is being recorded. When the call record key is hit a second time a notification will inform the participant that the recording has ended. Calls may be recorded for a select part of the conversation or for the entire call. The recorded calls may then be accessed online as a .wav file from within the customer's control panel.

Advanced Call Screening and Call Voice Tagging are features that allow customers to identify the caller and which number or extension the caller is trying to reach - whether it's their Phone.com number, their personal cell phone, etc.

All these features may be turned on or off by the user based on the customers' preferences.

Please visit our features page for a full list of our features. All of our services come with our highly acclaimed 24/7 customer support team. Please note that legal terms and conditions apply to all services.

Our pricing plans and features are easy to understand and clearly delineated on the website: Prices and plans start at only $4.88 /month + taxes.

XO Communications announces new enhancements to its VoIP services portfolio that help businesses and large enterprises with distributed locations simplify and streamline their IP-based communications networks.

To date, more than 16,000 businesses nationwide with more than 680,000 end users have deployed VoIP services from XO Communications. The latest enhancements to the company's award-winning VoIP services portfolio, which includes XO IP Flex, XO IP Flex with VPN and XO SIP, will greatly enhance the communications capabilities of mid-sized and enterprise business customers seeking a single nationwide voice and data solutions provider. The new capabilities announced today include:

• Availability of XO's VoIP services in all 50 states for multi-location enterprises;
• Wider range of interoperable IP-PBX platforms for SIP deployments; and
• Availability of automatic call routing to provide business continuity capabilities for XO VoIP customers.

Expanded Nationwide VoIP Services Coverage

XO Communications has expanded its nationwide VoIP coverage to include all 50 states. The enhancement of XO Communications' nationwide coverage effectively doubles its VoIP footprint throughout the United States and enables the company to provide its VoIP services in 80 percent of major metropolitan markets. With virtually unrivalled nationwide reach across the country, XO is positioned as the leading communications and networking services provider for multi-location businesses. For businesses in the retail and financial services industries, as well as other businesses with widely distributed locations, this expansion will further help them to streamline the management of their network, achieve increased efficiencies and reduce costs by leveraging the XO nationwide network for their multi-location requirements.

Increased Number of Interoperable IP-PBX Platforms for SIP Deployments

In an effort to help customers fully leverage the benefits of its converged VoIP services, XO Communications has also increased the number of IP-PBX interoperability certifications for XO SIP, its award-winning SIP trunking solution. In the past year, the company has added four new IP-PBX platforms that are interoperable with XO SIP and now supports the following platforms:

• Avaya Aura, Avaya Communication Manager, Avaya Communication Manager Branch Edition, Avaya IP Office
• Cisco Call Manager Express, Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco UC500
• Digium AA50, Digium Asterisk Business Edition, Digium Switchvox
• Fonality PBXtra, Fonality trixbox Pro
• NEC UNIVERGE SV8100 and UX5000
• Sutus Business Central 200
• Toshiba Strata CIX40, CIX100, CIX200, CIX670 and CIX1200 Automatic Call Routing

The company is also offering an additional level of redundancy for VoIP customers with its new Automatic Call Routing feature that provides a business continuity capability in which incoming calls can be routed to an alternate phone, landline or mobile device in the face of an unplanned event. As more companies seek to leverage the cost-savings and increased flexibility of VoIP, this new feature ensures employees are reachable and responsive regardless of their location. Automatic Call Routing is the latest addition to XO Business Continuity Solutions. Earlier this summer, the company unveiled XO Connect, a multi-modal mass notification service that enables customers to deliver urgent communications to thousands of recipients simultaneously via telephone, text message or email. The company also offers XO Anywhere, its award-winning unified communications tool for customers deploying IP Flex and IP Flex with VPN.

MetaSwitch continues to expand its footprint among U.S. regional operators, with more than 20 new customers signed in the last quarter alone, bringing its total incumbent local exchange carrier customer base to over 200. These carriers are successfully deploying MetaSwitch solutions to migrate legacy voice infrastructures to more cost-effective, IP-enabled networks and provide competitive, next-generation subscriber services, a process the company expects to accelerate further as Broadband Stimulus funds drive the deployment of packet networks.

The new customers consist of leading edge ILECs including Telephone Electronics Corporation based in Jackson, Miss.; Rural Telephone located in northwest Kansas; and Ben Lomand Telephone Cooperative, serving multiple counties in Tennessee. These ILECs are among the growing number of service providers choosing to work with MetaSwitch to address today's most pressing challenges, such as improving overall network management and bandwidth efficiency while increasing revenue-generating opportunities.

TEC manages a network of about 10 subsidiaries in areas of Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, serving nearly 50,000 subscribers and is now one of the largest independent operating carriers in the region. TEC is in the process of rolling out MetaSphere Unified Messaging, which it will provide as TEC Track and TEC Message, enabling residential customers to manage home phone, cell phone, e-mail and voicemail through CommPortal, a Web-based portal. TEC plans to rollout similar integrated messaging functionality to business customers in the coming months.

Rural Telephone needed to consolidate its switching capacity, create geographic redundancy and create an IP-access network. Rural Telephone selected a total MetaSwitch solution for its core network as well as to deliver a wide range of VoIP, legacy TDM and next-generation telephony services. Rural Telephone will split the MetaSwitch call agents to provide services across two towns to 41 exchanges, with a phased migration that has been underway for the last year and should be completed by February 2010.

Ben Lomand Telephone Cooperative opted to migrate from its Nortel legacy network to support growth and expansion plans. Ben Lomand Telephone Cooperative is replacing its Nortel DMS100 with a more cost-effective MetaSwitch-based solution to cover more than 42,000 access lines.

Nortel has signed up several new regional carriers across the U.S. bringing the total number of Communication Server 1500 customers to more than 135 globally. Hancock Telephone, ArkWest Communications, Venture Communications Cooperative and Dakota Central Telecommunications are the latest regional carriers to select Nortel's CS 1500 solution. This IP multimedia softswitch gives regional subscribers and small and medium sized businesses a low-cost but highly-reliable solution for providing traditional voice services, as well as multimedia applications like IPTV, fiber to the premises, and end-user Web portal access.

"It is clear that the value of our carrier VoIP and multimedia solutions are resonating with customers," said Samih Elhage, president, Carrier VoIP and Applications, Nortel. "The CS 1500 is high performance VoIP in a small package, bringing the latest voice and multimedia applications to regional carriers at a price they can afford. With our recently announced release of the CS 1500, we've added new revenue generating applications like unified messaging, single number service, subscriber web portal and on-demand conferencing. These new applications help increase customer satisfaction and retention while providing regional operators with a VoIP platform that allows them to reap the maintenance and cost benefits of a converged network."

The CS 1500 allows a phased migration path to VoIP allowing many carriers to reuse existing equipment, which can help reduce capital investment by up to 50 percent. The CS 1500 is also an environmentally friendly solution that can help save service providers money on annual electric utilities.

Due to its small size and simple design, the Nortel CS 1500 helps decrease service provider's costs associated with installation and engineering as well. The CS 1500 is a complete solution that is housed in a single 19" equipment rack. In its smallest configuration, it will occupy approximately two feet of rack space. A single equipment rack will accommodate a fully configured CS 1500 which can serve over 48,000 lines.

Nortel will be showcasing its solutions for regional service providers at the Rural Cellular Association's 17th Annual Convention & Exhibition in Las Vegas. Visit Nortel at booth number 626 from April 28 to May 1.

Virtual PBX and Gizmo5 announce a new collaboration that gives clients a complete business-class phone solution that offers the industry?s deepest feature set at a price level well below the current industry standard.

Built on an open-system VoIP peering platform, the new service combines the feature-rich products of both companies. As part of the announcement, Virtual PBX has launched iVPBX, a new product that provides customers with unlimited inbound calling and no per-minute fees at a price of just under $10 per seat -- about one-fourth to one-fifth the cost of most competing plans. Gizmo5 clients who use the new iVPBX product can send calls by IP directly to their Gizmo phones at no cost.

Virtual PBX has been delivering calls to businesses through its hosted PBX service since 1997. Typically, companies using the service have one main business number for clients to call. Virtual PBX takes those calls, answers them with a ?virtual? attendant, and then delivers them to employees using any kind of phone, in any location. This has enabled small firms and those with distributed employees to portray a professional phone image and get top-end features without the expense or maintenance hassles of purchasing their own telecommunications hardware.

Traditional Virtual PBX pricing plans include a varying number of free minutes with a price of 4.4 to 6.5 cents per minute for additional usage. With the new iVPBX product, available now, calls coming in on a local number and sent to a Gizmo5 phone will have no per-minute fee for unlimited use. For more information on iVPBX, visit www.virtualpbx.com/plans-and-prices.

Gizmo5 offers VoIP services to both consumers and businesses. Users can make and receive calls from any computer with browser access to the Internet, or use Gizmo5 to power IP phones. Gizmo adds a whole host of features like call recording, IM, file sharing, and much more. Setting up a Gizmo5 account is free, and so are inbound calls to a Gizmo client, with a small fee for outbound dialing. By adding the Virtual PBX service, business users of Gizmo5 gain all the advantages of a high-end PBX, such as an auto-attendant, transferring calls between users, and routing calls to departments though ACD queues.

Both companies will be promoting the partnership.

Speakeasy expanded its SIP IP voice and data integration capability as part of its comprehensive 'Integrated Voice' service. Speakeasy can now provide combined voice and data service over direct SIP trunks, in addition to its existing service over analog and digital lines. Speakeasy's Integrated Voice connects to a traditional key system or PBX, and now with direct SIP, to an IP PBX, making it easier than ever to take advantage of the cost savings and flexibility of Speakeasy Voice.

To support direct SIP, Speakeasy plans to certify eight of the major IP PBX hardware manufacturers. Speakeasy has certified the ADTRAN Netvanta 7100 and Fonality trixbox Community Edition (CE).

With Speakeasy's Integrated Voice, available bandwidth is automatically allocated to data transmission, such as e-mail and general Web use, when calls are not in use. This optimizes the customer's network utilization. In addition, by using an optional VoIP codex, G.729, customers can free up even more data bandwidth by further compressing voice traffic.

Vopium announces that its mobile VoIP service is available in the US, offering low-cost and free international mobile phone calls. By installing Vopium for free to any of the more than 500 supported GSM mobile handsets, US callers can immediately begin taking advantage of high-quality and affordable international calling. Once registered, all new users receive 30 free minutes of talk time and 100 free SMS. Consumers can view a step-by-step registration guide at Vopium.

How Vopium works:

Vopium is a free mobile software program that leverages mobile VoIP and Wi-Fi technology to greatly reduce the cost of international phone calls made from mobile phones while also maintaining excellent call quality. Free and easy to download, Vopium integrates directly with the user's mobile address book, automatically re-routing all international calls via the least expensive method available. In addition to heavily discounted international calls, Vopium users can also slash the costs of sending text messages abroad as each message costs only USD .13.

Call for free using Vopium Wi-Fi:

Vopium users can also make free and heavily discounted calls using Vopium Wi-Fi. Vopium automatically detects if a user is connected to Wi-Fi and enables users to call other Vopium Wi-Fi users around the world for free. If a Vopium Wi-Fi user calls a non-Vopium Wi-Fi user, they pay only the reduced international Vopium rate.

Cheap international calls:

Following is an example of recent pricing to call popular destinations from the US with Vopium:

    United Kingdom:
    Landlines: USD .03/min
    Mobiles: USD .32/min
    SMS: USD .13 per message

    France:
    Landlines: USD .04/min
    Mobiles: USD .24/min
    SMS: USD .13 per message

    China:
    Landlines: USD .03/min
    Mobiles: USD .03/min
    SMS: USD .13 per message

    India:
    Landlines: USD .08/min
    Mobiles: USD .08/min
    SMS: USD .13 per message

Vopium: The Key Facts

• Vopium is free to download athttp://www.vopium.com
• All new users are given 30 minutes of talk time + 100 international SMS for free
• Vopium is compatible with more than 500 GSM handsets across Java, RIM, Windows Mobile and iPhone
• Calling internationally through Vopium saves up to 90 percent off international calls
• Calls made through Vopium are always high quality
• Vopium Wi-Fi users can call each other around the world for free
• Vopium users keep their own mobile number and SIM card
• When a user calls from their home country, a local rate may be applied by their operator
• When calling from abroad a roaming charge will be applied by the subscriber's operator.
• Any Wi-Fi call will not incur additional charges from a subscriber's operator

Buzz Inc's, BuzzTel is releasing a corporate VoIP service. The service carries an annual fee of $500 and provides 2 Virtual Phones numners anywhere in the world, Unlimited calling to USA, Canada,(Landlines and Mobiles) China and Europe (landlines). Buzz offers Crystal Clear VoIP calling and can be used from your existing phone network, mobiles, smartphones and iPhones.

BuzzTel's "Virtual International Numbers": by combining the low cost call rates with the advantage of Direct Inward Dial numbers to provide a low cost alternative to high direct dial international rates from 40 countries. A DID is a local access number that is used by BuzzTel to forward a call over the internet, using VoIP technology, to a specified number. By using DID numbers, you can bypasses high international long distance rates when making international calls, you can stay connected with clients, employees and suppliers for fraction of the cost. You can also track all phones and callers in real time

BuzzTel is the ideal solution for Enterprises seeking to have a local presence internationally without having to have a physical location in those counties. For example, a manufacturing firm in China desires a local presence in the United States without having to open up an office in New York. With BuzzTel, they can have a New York phone number that rings directly into the corporate office in China.