30/07/2009 - IPsmarx Partners with DIDX to Extend DIDs Reach

IPsmarx Technology and DIDX have agreed a partnership with the aim of allowing VoIP service providers to expand their global reach.
The VoIP solutions provider delivers Softswitch and Calling Card Solutions to operators in 63 different countries.

25/06/2009 - JAJAH Connects One Billionth Call, Promises "Genuine" UC

JAJAH has announced that it has just connected its one billionth call - a 29-year-old woman in San Francisco who was calling her mother in India.
Not bad going for a company that launched just three years ago as a web-based consumer VoIP service and which now has over 25 million users and partnerships with the likes of Intel, Microsoft and Yahoo!

03/06/2009 - Sipgate Launches VoIP Assault on US Landline Market

Sipgate has launched a free VoIP service in the US aimed at capturing a share of the 100 million users that make up the landline market.
Called sipgate one, the new internet-based service uses a VoIP phone - or softphone - and offers a fully-featured service.

07/05/2009 - Cost Savings Drive SMBs To IP Telephony

Small to medium-sized businesses primarily shift to VoIP services because of the cost savings they offer.
That's the conclusion of a new report from Infonetics Research, which also points to powerful features as a secondary motive for SMBs to switch to IP telephony.

07/05/2009 - Microsoft Includes VoIP Ban in App Store Restrictions

Microsoft is to ban apps that enable VoIP services over carriers' networks from its Windows MarketPlace for Mobile store when it launches in the second half of this year.
The VoIP app restriction is among the 12 application types forbidden in a list of "rules" announced by Microsoft.

27/04/2009 - VoIP Vendors Failing To Re-think SMB Retail Products

The economic crisis has frequently been held up as an opportunity for the VoIP industry to introduce businesses to the benefits and efficiencies offered by "non-traditional" telecom services.
But Kent Hellebust, CMO and general manager of Individual and Digital Phone Services at Telanetix, believes many VoIP service providers are failing to respond to the fast moving pace of the business retail channel.
He tells voip.biz-news how telecom vendors can effectively capitalise on potential opportunities in the US Small and Medium Business (SMB) market.

21/04/2009 - NetAlly VoIP Assessment Software Eliminates Deployment Risk

Fluke Networks has released a new version of its NetAlly VoIP Assessment and Troubleshooting Software designed to help eliminate risk associated with deploying or expanding VoIP services.
Version 7.0 of the package works by assessing the current state of the network and previewing the service before it is deployed on that network.

06/03/2009 - TeleGeography Survey Shows VoIP Surge in Europe

VoIP telephone services in Western Europe leapt to just under 30 million consumer lines by mid-2008 - up from 20 million only a year earlier.
That figure has continued to climb and totalled 35 million lines at the end of the year, according to a survey by researchers TeleGeography.

06/03/2009 - Carrier VoIP Equipment Spend Down, IMS To Become Revenue Driver by 2011

The worldwide market for carrier VoIP equipment has stalled after a pro-longed period of double-digit annual revenue growth that began in 2002.
This led to the market contracting for the first time ever in 2008, with a drop in revenue of 6 per cent, according to Infonetics Research.

29/01/2009 - Verizon To Close VoiceWing VoIP Service

Verizon is to shut its VoIP service VoiceWing on 31 March.
Existing VoiceWing VoIP service customers have been contacted by Verizon Communications to inform them that it is withdrawing the offering from the end of March.

16/01/2009 - Cisco Preparing 320Mbps Cable Modem With VoIP

Cisco is developing a 320Mbps cable modem - the DPC3212.
It will be one of the first to use the DOCSIS 3.0 standard to pass 300Mbps.
Equipped with a new Broadcom chip, it joins eight - rather than four - cable channels together to reach the maximum speed.

26/09/2008 - Europe's VoIP Services Growing Rapidly

VoIP services in Europe are growing at a blistering pace and reshaping the fixed-line market, according to a report from TeleGeography.
Consumer IP telephony subscribers reached 25.3 million at year-end 2007, up from 15 million in 2006, and only 6.5 million in 2005.