BellSouth adds conferencing to VoIP 

By: By Carol Wilson

BellSouth has added Cisco Systems’ media conferencing capabilities to its premises-based managed VoIP offering, the company announced today...

Yahoo! says partners approve its VoIP offer 

By: By Carol Wilson

Yahoo!’s telco partners in broadband are “both aware of and involved in” its recently announced plans to offer voice over IP, the company said this week...

Reports: Yahoo Launching VoIP on IM 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Internet giant Yahoo will soon add voice-over-IP capability to its Yahoo Messenger instant messaging software, according to reports published in Newsweek and the San Jose Mercury News and its affiliates....

Survey says: Skype OK for business use 

By: By Carol Wilson

A new survey of Web conferencing users claims they are accepting Skype’s peer-to-peer VoIP product for business calls, even though most of them aren’t using the service...

Cox integrates voice, data and messaging 

By: By Carol Wilson

Cox Communications today announced new integrated messaging tools for its voice and data customers in Georgia and Florida...

VoIP for NetZero? 

By: By Tim McElligott

United Online, the company behind Juno, Classmates.com and NetZero, has joined the voice-over-IP craze with the launch this week of NetZero Voice...

In the Spotlight: Jon DeLuca, FiberNet 

By: By Ed Gubbins

FiberNet’s chief executive officer, Jon DeLuca, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about the market, the model and more...

Nortel finally makes it rural VoIP move 

By: By Vince Vittore

After several years of talking vaguely about plans to help rural telcos migrate their existing DMS switch to a voice-over-IP environment, Nortel Networks has finally unveiled some concrete products...

New Skype software adds call forwarding and more 

By: By Carol Wilson

Skype today unveiled new calling features that include forwarding calls to a mobile or landline phone, its first venture away from the PC, and adding ringtones to VoIP. The new software, Skype for Windows Version 1.4, also promises to improve sound quality on cars, in an ongoing effort to attract more consumers to VoIP....

Major Internet players further detail plans for voice 

By: By Carol Wilson

One major new player emerged, and two existing ones announced major expansions at Fall VON 2005 last week...

Fast Forward: Verizon's Michelle Swittenberg 

Through a recent Harris Poll survey, Verizon Communications discovered most people (87%) have no clue what voice over IP is. Read the full-length interview with Verizon's Michelle Switttenberg here...

VON Wrap-Up: Show size, eBay’s folly and hot investments 

By: By Carol Wilson

After five days in its new home, the fall VON ’05 conference wrapped up quietly on Thursday. As one exhibitor noted, many attendees had either headed home or were at their hotels, nursing hangovers following the all-conference party that VON founder Jeff Pulver regularly hosts on the Wednesday night of each show. ...

VON: BroadSoft launches customizable ringback tones for VoIP 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--BroadSoft this week announced that its BroadWorks VoIP application platform will enable both wireline and wireless service providers to let users customize the tones that callers hear and offer video ringbacks as well...

VON: Agilent offers end-to-end VoIP service assurance 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--Agilent Technologies this week unveiled what it believes is the industry’s only VoIP service assurance system that can monitor VoIP traffic end-to-end as it traverses session border controllers and differing networks...

Level 3: Mass market not ready for VoIP 

By: By Ed Gubbins

BOSTON--The saturation of the early adopter market for voice over IP is looming, and the industry is stalling in its advance on a broader mass market, said Charles Meyers, group vice president of marketing for Level 3 Communications...

CommPartners chases SMEs through IT integrators 

By: By Carol Wilson

Boston -- After more than two years of slogging through the complex state regulatory process, CommPartners this fall will unveil its new national network, with certified CLEC status in all 50 states and a national backbone built on agreements with Level 3 Communications and Global Crossing that raches 92% of the U.S. market. ...

Broadwing eases VoIP migration 

By: By Carol Wilson

Boston – Broadwing used the VON Conference to show off its new SIP-based services, including Enterprise SIP solutions, an all-in-one VoIP utility service aimed at larger corporate users....

AOL talks up TotalTalk 

By: By Carol Wilson

AOL is moving aggressively into VoIP for the masses, introducing its TotalTalk service Oct. 4 with the intent of taking on telephone companies and cable companies for consumer voice service...

VON: Net2Phone offers SIP-based enterprise services 

By: By Carol Wilson

Net2Phone Tuesday announced new enterprise VoIP products, aimed at small to mid-sized enterprises. ...

VON: EarthLink to use Level 3 for VoIP 

By: By Carol Wilson

EarthLink will use Level 3 Communications to provide its VoIP service offerings, the two companies announced Tuesday. EarthLink will use the Level 3 (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service and offer local, long-distance and international service, including E911 service....

VON: TelTel launches SIP VNO 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--Hoping to capitalize in the recent interest in adding IP voice to e-commerce and Internet applications, TelTel is launching an SVNO, or SIP virtual network operator, that can put any interested player into the VoIP business very quickly...

Sprint, Avaya team on VoIP 

By: By Carol Wilson

Sprint and Avaya announced today that they will partner to develop hosted VoIP services for both wireline and wireless markets....

VON: MCI expands global VoIP portfolio 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--MCI today announced two additions to its VoIP services for enterprises, as well as an expansion of its wholesale VoIP product...

VON: SJ Labs launches Zero Touch strategy 

By: By Carol Wilson

SJ Labs is taking a new approach to marketing its voice and video softphone, offering both zero-touch downloads of basic software and a premium product for service providers who want a higher degree of customization....

VON: VoIP providers missing SMB boat 

By: By Carol Wilson

Small to mid-sized businesses are still somewhat confused about the Voice over IP value proposition, and need much more education about the service itself, according to a new study from Savatar, released today at VON. ...