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by jeff goldman on February 25, 2010
Research firm Dell'Oro Group has released a new report which predicts that the IP telephony market will stabilize in 2010.
"The housing market is showing signs of improvement, and this may a...
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by jeff goldman on December 19, 2009
The UK's Internet Telephony Service Providers' Association (ITSPA) recently announced the winners of its annual ITSPA Awards in the Strangers' Dining Room of the UK House of Commons.
The ...
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by jeff goldman on December 13, 2009
Silicon Alley Insider's Dan Frommer this week reported that Apple may be "in talks to acquire VoIP company iCall in a $50 million to $60 million deal."
"It's obvious to everyone but ...
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by jeff goldman on December 4, 2009
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The FCC has released a request for comment [PDF file] on transitioning to an all-IP nationwide voice network.
"Given that voice services now make up only a fraction of the data ...
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by jeff goldman on October 31, 2009
According to a recent report from Infonetics Research, revenue from VoIP worldwide reached $20.7 billion in the last six months alone.
That's billion, with a b...
"Residential VoIP services r...
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by jeff goldman on September 1, 2009
Nimbuzz recently launched Nimbuzz for Android, a new app designed (logically enough) for Android devices.
"Nimbuzz's claim to fame is that it interconnects a wide variety of other discrete,...
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by jeff goldman on August 31, 2009
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports that a group of venture capital and private equity firms are working together to acquire Skype from current owner eBay.
"Investors in the proposed pur...
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by jeff goldman on August 24, 2009
TCM Mobile has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ganton Limited to deploy a commercial cellular VoIP network in India using TCM's proprietary technology.
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by jeff goldman on August 12, 2009
Unstrung Insider has released a new report entitled Mobile VoIP: A Disruptive Service Goes Mainstream, describing the growth of mobile VoIP as "an unstoppable train."
As report author Joh...
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by jeff goldman on July 9, 2009
Nimbuzz recently announced that O2 is launching the Toshiba TG01 handset throughout Germany with Nimbuzz software pre-installed.
"The TG01 employs a 1GHz Snapdragon chipset and it has a 4.1-inch ...
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by jeff goldman on March 21, 2009
Clearwire is currently running a trial of VoIP phones in Portland, Oregon, with the aim of launching mobile voice services in 2010, according to Multichannel News' Todd Spangler.
"The test co...
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by jeff goldman on March 7, 2009
Skype this week announced plans to offer royalty-free access to its SILK wideband audio codec.
"SILK, which debuted to positive reviews in the 4.0 version of Skype for Windows released last mo...
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by jeff goldman on February 16, 2009
Web-savvy Italian mafiosi have apparently learned to cover their tracks using VoIP...
"Police in Milan have issued a warning that criminals of all kinds have been turning to Internet VoIP calls, ...
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by jeff goldman on January 17, 2009
In an article at TMCnet , cyLogistics president Don Witt this week predicts that a struggling economy in 2009 will lead to a surge in VoIP deployments.
"The stock market meltdown will increase Vo...
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by jeff goldman on December 11, 2008
Truphone this week announced the addition of Truphone Anywhere functionality to its iPhone application, adding support for inbound calling and enabling users to make calls when not connected to a Wi-F...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on June 19, 2008
While 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 lot of limitations. Most service providers ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 25, 2008
Nicole 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 down. If you ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 3, 2008
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 M...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 29, 2008
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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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 24, 2008
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 p...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 11, 2008
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 pr...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 20, 2007
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 ca...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 18, 2007
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 fu...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 5, 2007
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 a...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on November 2, 2007
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 t...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on October 25, 2007
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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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on October 16, 2007
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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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on September 7, 2007
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 fa...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on August 15, 2007
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 "ann...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 26, 2007
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 h...
