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Pac-West bounces back again
By Carol Wilson
The new CEO of Pac-West Telecom is promising a financially healthier company with ambitious plans for the Western region...
Verizon boosts VoIP options
By Carol Wilson
In two separate announcements made this morning, Verizon Business introduced capabilities that will make it easier for enterprise customers to use its voice-over-IP services...
MegaPath sings national ‘Duet’
By Carol Wilson
Competitive service provider MegaPath is taking its converged voice and data offering, known as “Duet,” to its national footprint, the company announced this week...
Voice on social networks off to slow start
By Rich Karpinski
First came a wave of service launches, as voice-over-IP providers tried to catch the social networking wave by embedding their services into popular social networks like Facebook. Now comes the first wave of results, and the numbers aren’t pretty...
At your service: TalkPlus
By Rich Karpinski
Convinced of the power of voice over IP (VoIP) to deliver more than just cheaper minutes, Jeff Black, CEO of TalkPlus, and team created an application and service to bring advanced call management to smartphones...
Enter the Skype phone
By Kevin Fitchard
Skype today unveiled its long-awaited VoIP phone, a mobile handset that uses the data capabilities of the mobile network to bypass an operator’s circuit-switched network entirely to make free calls over the Internet...
Skype brings VoIP to MySpace
By Rich Karpinski
Skype and MySpace this week announced plans to bring free voice-over-IP calling to the social networking site...
VoIP gets social
By Rich Karpinski
Putting voice in IP apps is a natural fit, but the business case is a challenge...
BabyTEL offers P2P VoIP through Facebook
By Rich Karpinski
Canadian voice-over-IP provider babyTEL next week will announce a new Facebook application that will bring VoIP peer-to-peer calling to the social network...
iBasis claims No. 2 spot in global voice traffic
By Carol Wilson
The new iBasis has emerged this week, calling itself the second largest carrier of international voice traffic in the world, exceeding AT&T and second only to Verizon...
R.I.P. VoIP? Not hardly
By Carol Wilson
The demise of SunRocket and the ongoing woes of Vonage haven't stopped the voice-over-IP industry from continuing to push out new solutions...
Speakeasy shops Best Buy success
By Carol Wilson
A week after Speakeasy announced higher-bandwidth services based on ADSL 2 links it purchases from Covad Communications, the Best Buy subsidiary is announcing more flexible pricing for its voice-over-IP service to accommodate small businesses and more VoIP phone choices as well...
Former SunRocket users still suffering
By Carol Wilson
A group of former SunRocket VoIP subscribers are still suffering the ill effects of that company’s demise, as the transition to new VoIP operators has been bumpy...
‘ooma’ promising home telephony revolution
By Carol Wilson
A new VoIP company is bringing peer-to-peer technology and social networking to home telephony in a new way, promising to sell home phone replacement systems that enable customers to avoid paying any voice calling fees...
SunRocket offers customers transition to Packet8
By Carol Wilson
SunRocket, the VoIP operator that abruptly ceased operations Monday, has designated Packet8 as the preferred provider for the 200,000 customers it is giving up, Packet8 operator 8x8 announced today...
Big River finds small cable lucrative
By Carol Wilson
Big River Telephone Co. started off in 2001 as a typical CLEC, targeting small to mid-sized businesses with traditional voice services, initially as a reseller of UNE-P lines but then on its own facilities, serving rural communities in southeastern Missouri...
Sylantro fuels hosted VoIP for education market
By Carol Wilson
Education Networks of America, a managed Internet services provider targeting the education market, today said it is rolling out a hosted VoIP service for school districts, municipal and state agencies and libraries using Sylantro Systems’ Synergy platform...
M5 gets aggressive on Voice as Service
By Carol Wilson
M5 Networks, the competitive service provider serving mid-sized companies in New York and Chicago with hosted VoIP and advanced features, is getting more aggressive with its marketing message, deciding to proclaim “The end of the Phone System.”...
VoIP company focuses on sales channel
By Carol Wilson
A Canadian company is looking to make its mark selling VoIP software to service providers by helping them master the tough economics of selling to small businesses through distributed sale channels...
Qwest points to business successes
By Carol Wilson
Having put its financial house in order, Qwest Communications is now polishing its image as a quality business services provider, and getting considerable help in that regard from recent customer surveys and studies...
Vonage gets temporary stay
By Carol Wilson
Vonage has secured a temporary stay against a federal judge’s order that prevents it from signing up new customers to its VoIP service, now that the service has been judged to violate three Verizon patents...
IPcelerate launches VoIP apps for SMBs
By Carol Wilson
Piggybacking on Cisco Systems’ new Unified Communications’ initiatives, software maker IPcelerate today launched IPsmartSuite, a package of VoIP solutions targeting small to mid-sized businesses and bringing them not just voice but also many other automated features...
VON: Linksys expands small business focus
By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Although best known for its home router market dominance, Linksys started its life focusing on small business and is staying true to its roots...
VON: LignUp, Level 3 speed VoIP apps
By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Software maker LignUp has teamed with Level 3 Communications to speed the development of VoIP applications by combining VoIP transport with applications server capabilities and making the whole thing free to developers...
VON: EarthLink to test Wi-Fi phone
By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--EarthLink today announced a beta trial of its new Wi-Fi phone, hoping to leverage both its municipal network Wi-Fi buildout and its broadband data services...
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