Comptel: VoIP market shifting  

By: By Carol Wilson

LAS VEGAS--The voice-over-IP market isn’t generating the individual sales for non-cable VoIP providers, which is prompting many of them to pursue wholesale opportunities and business services such as hosted PBX offerings...

M5 opens Chicago office 

By: By Carol Wilson

Hosted VoIP provider M5 Networks is making its first move outside the New York City area, opening a sales office in Chicago. The company specializes in serving small and mid-sized businesses through partnerships with IT providers...

VoIP market shifting 

By: By Carol Wilson

As cable companies capture a greater percentage of consumer voice-over-IP lines, the squeeze is on independent providers of VoIP. But not everybody is...

Cable VoIP prices drop 

By: By Carol Wilson

Cable VoIP services are getting cheaper, when sold as part of a service bundle, and are close to the prices charged by Internet VoIP players such as Vonage, according to research firm Pike & Fisher...

Skype plays up business angle 

By: By Carol Wilson

Skype is pushing harder to sell its services to business customers, announcing new functionality, including ease of installation software for multiple computers and new tools for IT managers who want to use Skype as a business VoIP service...

InFocus: Do you speak small business? 

By: By David Cork, Natural Convergence

One of the well-known facts in telecommunications is the small business market is tough to crack with new technologies. Many VoIP service providers have chosen to compete for the mid-to-large enterprise market share first, leaving the small business market largely unattended and underserved. However, considering the scope of the opportunity it may be time to reconsider...

VoIP Inc. nabs deals with Google, ’30 Rock’ 

By: By Carol Wilson

Internet telephony provider VoIP Inc. is finding the marketing world to be a lucrative space for its service...

Skype turns to subscription 

By: By Carol Wilson

Skype today unveiled a new North American calling plan, designed to let U.S. and Canadian customers buy a year-long subscription to unlimited voice-over-IP calls to anyone within those two countries...

ITU: Huawei chooses Sylantro for global IMS 

By: By Carol Wilson

HONG KONG--Huawei has selected Sylantro Systems as the provider of feature services for hosted VoIP offerings, the two companies announced today...

VoIP pioneer Ryla finds pay-off  

By: By Carol Wilson

When Mark Wilson decided in 2001 to use Internet telephony to improve his company’s call center services, he didn’t have any role models. Yet he decided to take Ryla Teleservices in that direction because the economics were just too compelling...

SunRocket, 8 by 8 announce deals 

By: By Carol Wilson

Two VoIP service providers today announced marketing deals to expand their reach...

Yahoo!, Linksys team on easy cordless VoIP 

By: By Carol Wilson

Yahoo! and Linksys this morning introduced a new dual-mode cordless phone system that enables consumers to use Yahoo! Messenger Voice over IP service more easily and without being tied to a PC....

Comptel: McLeod adds local wholesale 

By: By Carol Wilson

ORLANDO--McLeodUSA today formally launched wholesale voice services, including both a UNE-P replacement product and Wholesale DLC Service on the TDM side, as well as an IP-based service aimed at Internet service providers and VoIP providers...

Qwest expands Internet telephony 

By: By Carol Wilson

Qwest this week said it is expanding its VoIP offerings to include larger businesses that want a direct IP handoff to an enterprise softswitch or IP PBX...

VON: Level 3 gets new look 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--While its buying binge may not be over, Level 3 Communications is already looking like a different company and exploring some of its new options...

VON: Covad targets very small biz 

By: By Carol Wilson

VON: Rebtel rebels against mobile roaming 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--A Swedish start-up company is rebelling against the wireless “cartel” in Europe and elsewhere, offering customers a way to use their mobile phones to make unlimited international calls on their mobile phones for $1 a week...

VON: Connect123 partners with Perimeter 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--Connect123.net, a Raleigh, N.C.- based provider of VoIP services in 915 U.S. markets, announced today it is using Perimeter Networks Unified Threat Management suite of managed security services to offer its small to mid-sized business customers...

VON: AOL dresses up AIM Phoneline 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--AOL is opening up its AIM Phoneline interface to outside developers, hoping to build a compelling product that can compete in the crowded VoIP space with Google, Yahoo!, Skype and others...

VON: Newstep adds voice mail recall 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--NewStep Networks, one of the pioneers in the fixed/mobile convergence space, this week added voice mail intercept to its roster of features, enabling customers to “recall” wireless calls that rolled over into voice mail by pushing a button...

VON: 8x8 enhances for business 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--8x8 is using the VON show to announce additional features for its business customers, including a business-class PBX softphone and new, higher-quality, fax-over-IP service...

VON: Sylantro launches wireless virtual PBX 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--Sylantro Systems is taking its VoIP feature servers into the wireless world, the company said today. Its latest release of Sylantro Synergy, 4.1, includes a wireless virtual PBX that enables wireless service providers to target the enterprise market...

VON: AT&T adds softphone to Call Vantage 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON -- Reinforcing its renewed emphasis on consumer Voice over IP, AT&T today announced softphone capabilities for its CallVantage VoIP service, developed in conjunction with CounterPath Solutions. As part of the new service, customers can also do peer-to-peer videoconferencing....

VON: Voxbone takes virtual numbers global 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--A relatively unknown Belgian company, Voxbone, is making waves at VON with a specialized wholesale service that offers local phone numbers in 50 different countries in Asia, Europe, North America and South America...

VON: 360 adds wholesale VoIP 

By: By Caol Wilson

BOSTON--Leveraging its unique footprint in the wide-open spaces of the Western U.S., 360 Networks today announced it will offer wholesale VoIP services to service providers for business and residential customers...