VoIP E911 by committee
By: by Tim McElligott
Vendors partner with multiple location-based solution companies to see what works....
A place for everything--even voice
By: by Tim McElligott
Who would have guessed that the big question mark in telecommunications after more than a century of progress and success would be voice service itself?...
Adtran bundles IP-PBX with router, switch
By: By Carol Wilson
Adtran today enters the IP-PBX market, offering a converged IP switch-router that it says will simplify the transition to Voice over IP....
Fusion puts a new model on the VoIP runway
By: By Tim McElligott
From whom and for how much is unknown, but Fusion Telecommunications International announced this week the acquisition of SIP-based technology that will allow it to launch a new model of voice-over-IP that challenges the models of Vonage and Skype...
eLEC to add Liberty Bell to its holdings
By: By Tim McElligott
eLEC Communications has signed a letter of intent to acquire Colorado-based Liberty Bell Telecom, LLC, a local and long-distance company born from the frustrations of radio and television consumer advocate Tom Martino, who is also company founder...
Pannaway builds an Empire
By: By Vince Vittore
Pannaway Technologies announced today that Empire Telephone, an 8400-line independent based in Prattsburgh, NY, is deploying SIP-based voice-over-IP service using a combination of Nortel and Pannaway products...
Intrado gets a location on VoIP E911
By: By Tim McElligott
Pending the close of a deal that will see it get acquired by West Corp., Intrado continues to move ahead on developing solutions for VoIP E911 and partnered this week with three location determination technology vendors...
AT&T claims global advantage
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is tightening its global focus on multinational enterprise customers, expanding and extending its global network with a particular focus on developing nations that its customers want to reach and on data products....
EarthLink to telecom world: Watch us now
By: By Carol Wilson
Having survived the brutal ISP wars, EarthLink is now taking dead aim at virtually every corner of the telecom market, with the possible exception of large enterprises....
ATIS collaborates with IPDR.org for accounting standard
By: By Tim McElligott
One group's alphabet soup is another group's milestone as proved this week by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions and the Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization (IPDR.org) as they collaborated to get approval by the American National Standard for a next-generation accounting management standard....
Netifice, MegaPath combine
By: By Carol Wilson
Continuing the consolidation trend in the competitive service provider segment, Netifice Communications and MegaPath Networks today announced that they are merging to form one company with $125 million in revenue in managed services. ...
IDT finalizes Net2Phone repurchase
By: By Dan O'Shea
IDT Corp late last Friday agreed to acquire the 12.8% of Net2Phone that it does not already own for $28.1 million. The VoIP and cable telephony company began as an IDT service and division in 1996 and was later spun off as a publicly-traded company in 1999. ...
XO adds PBXs to VoIP service
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications is moving its Voice over IP service up market, adding PBX support to attract and serve larger enterprise customers. ...
Enterprise VoIP's Y2K connection
By: By Stephanie Dell
A growing segment of the voice-over-IP market in the next few years may come from enterprises seeking to replace outdated TDM-based PBX systems installed...
My People gives VoIP KISS treatment
By: By Vince Vittore
For an industry that has proclaimed its end customers don't care about the technology, telecommunications has a long history of taking the simplest service and making it more complex than brain surgery...
3GSM: MetaSolv lays out IMS play
By: By Tim McElligott
BARCELONA, SPAIN-- MetaSolv Software used the backdrop of the 3GSM World Congress this week to present its strategy for IP multimedia subsystem, or IMS, support in convergent activation and mediation....
3GSM: Skype goes mobile
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA --- VoIP provider Skype’s growing wireless efforts culminated today with the launch of its first major carrier deal over a cellular network. Hutchison Whampoa’s 3 Group has agreed to offer the Skype service on its UMTS networks across the world....
Spirent revisits acquisition trough
By: By Dan O'Shea
London-based Spirent plc said today that it has acquired QuadTex Systems, a Dallas-based vendor of IP multimedia subsystem and voice-over-IP testing solutions...
3GSM: Nokia launches UMA platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA – Nokia today unveiled its unlicensed mobile access (UMA) platform today at the 3GSM World Congress here, announcing a UMA controller for the network and its first UMA dual-mode GSM/W-LAN phone for the end-user....
NTCA: Rural carriers’ future getting cloudier
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN DIEGO--In a panel discussion last week as part of the Rural Telecom Summit at the NTCA Expo here, a group of industry experts ...
O2 plays numbers game with Evolving Systems
By: By Tim McElligott
Englewood, Colo.-based Evolving Systems took its number inventory management software to Germany this week and will install the NumeriTrack system for O2...
Skype launches web presence feature
By: By Dan O'Shea
VoIP juggernaut Skype has announced SkypeWeb, a Web presence feature that is already integrated into more than 50 Web sites in 20 countries around the world. SkypeWeb allows people to see Skype users’ online status, and call or chat with them from any Web site as well as "Skype" people from each site....
Vonage taps new CEO for long-awaited IPO
By: By Carol Wilson
Vonage today filed to issue an initial public offering of stock, seeking to raise $250 million....
Verizon Business expands VoIP offerings
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced new IP service offerings, including a version designed to make the transition to VoIP easier for businesses. ...
3GSM: Nortel tests HSUPA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks today said it has its high-speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) technology up and running and has performed its first live tests of simultaneous upstream and downstream data transmissions at speeds exceeding 1 Mb/s....
