Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Daniel SteinWhile many U.S.-based voice over IP service providers already provide access to 911 service thanks to an FCC ruling requiring them to do so, it comes with a...
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© Dave RaboinNicole Schuman raises an interesting question about the state of the VoIP industry based on the numbers. If you look at the quarter-over-quarter numbers, it appears the market is slowing...
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I have to wonder if this is a Barney partnership or if there's something else going on here. What I'm reading in my email as well as on the Fring blog is that Fring has teamed up with Boingo...
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I'm surprised this didn't get a lot of play when I first saw it on Rich Tehrani's blog, but the U.S. Senate has passed a bill making it so VoIP providers can get equal access to the public...
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One of the many things that got lost in the blur of last week was another chapter in Jeff Pulver's FWD (formerly Free World Dialup) service: the Global Communicator Project. The idea behind this...
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An interesting tidbit from a report found by Tom Schouteden at the Sipcat VoIP Blog suggests that by 2012, SIP over WiFi will be dwarfed by SIP over 3G mobile phone networks. Specifically, they are...
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One of the benefits of using open standards is that interoperability, while not guaranteed, becomes much easier. SightSpeed and Leadtek both have products that both speak the same language: SIP for...
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One of the biggest threat to Voice over IP as a technology is regulation-namely, regulation that puts undue restrictions on the use of the technology and prevents it from being utilized to it's...
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Chances are, if you've used a regular landline phone, you've made a call into a system where you have to press keys on your numeric keypad in order to reach your intended party (e.g. dialing...
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On Wednesday, the folks at the Federal Communications Commission clarified the rules with regards to local number portability, i.e. the ability to transfer your number between telephony providers in...
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Sweden-based TerraNet has the technology to create a mobile phone network almost entirely out of handsets. The network "self organizes" as the handsets are turned on. Any node in the network...
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Whatever was in the coffee Andy Abramson was drinking in Madrid, I want some! He certainly got on a roll with this one. The short version of Andy's lengthy piece on video conferencing systems is...
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Inter-Tel and Mitel just recently finished merging. As is the case with many mergers, some people are let go. Unfortunately, Dan York was recently thrown overboard from the good ship Mitel. Dan is...
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I will admit to not following the work of Thomas Howe that closely. And when I first read this press release-available after the jump-I had a hard time wrapping my head around what was being...
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As you may have heard recently, Jeff Pulver issued a call for VoIP companies to provide more than just the old-style telephone service. Jim Courtney over at Skype Journal wrote a lengthy piece about...
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Generally speaking, the VoIP industry has done whatever they can to replicate the telecom networks of old. Feature for feature, function for function, it works the same way with a VoIP provider as it...
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Are they or aren't they? SunRocket, the second most popular standalone consumer VoIP Telephony provider after Vonage, has clearly had issues as of late. If you attempt to go to SunRocket's...
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Just a few weeks back I told you all that Sony PSP could be used for making Jajah calls and the company was even working on introducing Jajah on Sony Plastation 3. This has now become a reality...
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