BellSouth Offers VoIP The VoIP Weblog
BellSouth now has VoIP. The landline bohemoth entered into a partnership with 8×8, a small but solid VoIP outfit that offers voice and video broadband phone. For $20 a month users get voicemail, caller ID, and free longdistance across the states and Canada. Overseas calls come at a reduced cost. Every VoIP provider just involuntarily shuddered… [...] Read More
Mobiboo Offers Attractive Plans on Its Dashboard VoIP Service The VoIP Weblog
Mobiboo users have something to cheer about as the company is now offering a tariff plan with low cost unlimited calls aimed at both household and commercial users. The good thing about this plan is that you get to make free unlimited calls to U.K geographical numbers and also make calls at lower rates to cell phones in U.K and international calls too. The household service plan is available for [...] Read More
Can Verizon VoIP patents affect competing VoIP services? The VoIP Weblog
Here is another twist to the Verizon- Vonage patent battle. Daniel Berninger , a telecom expert has stated that two patents talked about in the lawsuit against Vonage are invalid and in case they are allowed to stand it could be a threat for all competing VoIP services. He claimed that these two patents were described in VoIP Forum, a standards group before Verizon went ahead and filed for these [...] Read More
BellSouth to Offer Wireless Broadband as Backup The Wireless Weblog
CNET's Marguerite Reardon writes that BellSouth will soon announce a 1.5 Mbps wireless broadband service using pre-WiMAX equipment, offered as a backup in case a customer's wired broadband connection should fail. The service will cost $29.95 a month in addition to the wired broadband fee. Michael Bowling, bellsouth's Vice President of Convergence and Platform Development, says the company developed the service after seeing how crucial wireless services became following Hurricane Katrina. [...] Read More
AT&T and BellSouth: The Challenges of Convergence The Wireless Weblog
Unstrung's Richard Martin today looks at the wireless service implications of the proposed AT&T/BellSouth merger. "The prospect of a reconstituted AT&T that includes cingular wireless LLC could hasten the progress toward fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) — and simplify life for managers at thousands of small and medium-sized businesses across the U.S.," he writes. Still, Martin notes that some aren't quite so optimistic. "I think it's going to be a nightmare," says Manny [...] Read More
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