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....
Level 3 promises growth after '05 decline
By: By Ed Gubbins
During the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report this morning, Level 3 Communications projected its core communications services to grow faster in 2006 than its other communication services decline. (Photographers/Source: David Scull/BLOOMBERG NEWS/LANDOV)...
Skype, Google join investors in global Wi-Fi venture
By: By Dan O'Shea
Skype, Google and Sequoia Capital joined funding round leader Index Ventures in investing $21.7 million in FON, a three-month-old company based in Madrid, Spain, that intends to build a globally networked infrastructure of Wi-Fi hot spots...
VoIP growing in unexpected ways
By: By Carol Wilson
Although 16 million consumers were using voice-over-IP technology by the end of 2005, most consumers still don’t know the meaning of VoIP and may never need to, according to a new survey from InStat, which is projecting VoIP will grow to 55 million by 2009. ...
Qwest launches new IP wholesale services
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest this week is formally announcing a new suite of wholesale services that bring new IP flexibility to that market...
India awaits a broadband breakthrough
By: By Dan O'Shea
When it comes to telecom market potential, India, the second-most populated country in the world, is often overlooked in the shadow of its larger, more populated neighbor to the northeast...
Fast Forward: Charles Moldow, Foundation Capital
By: By Vince Vittore
Charles Moldow, who recently joined Foundation Capital as a venture partner, knows what it takes to develop successful start-ups, having been on the founding teams of both Tellme Networks and @Home...
AT&T, Avaya target SMB for combined VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and Avaya have teamed up to make it easier for small to mid-sized businesses to make the transition to voice over IP, the two companies announced today...
WCA: MVS deploys NextNet in Mexico
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE, CALIF.--MVS Net, the Mexican communications company that is part of a family-owned empire with reach into broadcasting and Internet content, is running VoIP over non-line of sight broadband wireless access systems from NextNet Wireless, a U.S. vendor that is part of the family-owned empire of Craig McCaw....
AT&T to trial Ubiquity SIP server
By: By Carol Wilson
U.K.-based Ubiquity today announced that AT&T will use its SIP application server in its trial of advanced Voice over IP applications....
Debt exchange boosts analyst rating
By: By Ed Gubbins
A debt exchange completed by Level 3 Communications this week has given the company more runway and Wall Street more optimism in it...
Pac-West, VeriSign team on national VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
National wholesale VoIP provider Pac-West Telecomm has signed a strategic alliance with VeriSign to combine expertise in providing a full-service converged IP voice and data offering to service providers...
Yankee: Hosted VoIP, VoIP VPNs get hot
By: By Carol Wilson
Business VoIP service is set to boom, with hosted VoIP poised for particularly fast growth, the Yankee Group said in a research report issued today...
Consumers know VoIP, don’t understand it
By: By Vince Vittore
Consumer recognition of voice over IP has risen significantly in the last year, but there is still a lot of confusion around the technology. (Photographers/Source:ROGER WILLIAMS/UPI/Landov)...
Skype goes mobile, with Netgear
By: By Carol Wilson
Skype has teamed with NetGear to deliver the first wireless mobile phone that uses its VoIP service, as well as a router equipped to optimize Skype, the two companies announced at the International CES show in Las Vegas....
Vonage expands Sonus deployments
By: By Tim McElligott
Although not a well-guarded secret, Vonage formally revealed its use of Sonus Networks’ switching platform this week and said it will be expanding the relationship to accommodate growth in its business....
In Focus: How U.S. mobile operators can take full advantage of international service opportunities
By: By Larry Frank
The most significant change in telephony over the past ten years has been the explosive growth of wireless subscribers worldwide. Yet unlike their colleagues around the world, mobile operators in the U.S. have not capitalized on the revenue potential from international calling; in fact, most operators do not aggressively market international services and some do not even authorize their credit-worthy customers to initiate such calls. ...
Black Box shops for acquisitions
By: By Dan O'Shea
Black Box Corporation, a supplier of enterprise network infrastructure and services based in Lawrence, Penn., has been as busy as any other shopper this holiday season, with no less than three acquisitions announced already this month. ...
