eBay sees billions in Skype synergies
By: By Carol Wilson
Ebay will use Skype’s Voice over IP capabilities to expand its e-commerce activities into new markets and new geographic reasons, in addition to milking its standalone service revenues and creating new businesses as well, eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman said Monday morning....
VegaStream adds new gateways for enterprise VoIP
By: By Tim McElligott
For small service providers and system integrators trying to address the enterprise voice-over-IP market, London-based VegaStream this week launched two new analog gateways, one of which it claims will be the biggest on the market. ...
CTC buys Connecticut Broadband
By: By Carol Wilson
New England-based competitive service provider CTC Communications announced today that it has acquired Connecticut Broadband, a voice and data service provider in that Connecticut....
Avaya targets wireless with Nokia and Meru Networks
By: By Tim McElligott
VoIP equipment provider Avaya released for general availability an application jointly developed with Nokia to address fixed/mobile convergence and partnered with Meru Networks to resell its wireless LAN solutions....
Latest rumor: eBay pursuing Skype
By: By Carol Wilson
The latest rumors swirling around Skype indicate auction giant eBay is in negotiations to buy the VoIP provider for between $2 billion and $3 billion. ...
Nortel unveils first step in rural VoIP migration
By: By Vince Vittore
Trying to maintain what at one time had been an overwhelming majority market share in the rural switching market, Nortel this week is unveiling the first set of successful deployments of its SIP-enabled DMS-10 platform....
Equant, Global Crossing do hosted VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
Two major competitive carriers are flushing out their voice over IP offerings by adding hosted PBX features....
Wireless ISPs ready to heed call for help
By: By Carol Wilson
About 8000 wireless ISPs are standing at the ready, prepared to provide voice over IP service to relief shelters around the country, at the direction of the Federal Communications Commission....
BellSouth sets early Katrina price tag
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth will spend between $400 million and $600 million to restore the network damage done by Hurricane Katrina, the company estimated today. That includes both expenses and capital costs, but is just a preliminary estimate, according to the company....
Force-feeding E911
By: By Tim McElligott
One can question the motives of the FCC in imposing an extremely short deadline on VoIP providers to comply with the E911 mandate--putting the breaks on the technology, genuine concern for public safety, naivety, motivation itself--but early indicators show that most providers will meet that deadline. So the real question is: What's the downside?...
Microsoft acquires more VoIP expertise
By: By Tim McElligott
Small in size but with significant potential, Microsoft’s acquisition of San Francisco, Calif.-based Teleo this week provided more evidence that the voice-enabled technology space is becoming increasingly important, and even more urgent, to Internet and software companies...
AOL opens AIM to VoIP integration
By: By Vince Vittore
AOL is expected to announce next week that it is integrating its instant messaging platform into the dashboard of VoIP software and service provider IPcelerate....
Skype signs mobile partner
By: By Carol Wilson
Skype announced this morning that it has signed up its first mobile partner in E-Plus, Germany's third largest mobile phone network with 9.8 million subscribers. ...
Kaish leaves BellSouth to head Cox voice development
By: By Carol Wilson
Mark Kaish, BellSouth’s vice president of next generation services, is changing sides of the field. He will be joining Cox Communications this month to head up voice services development strategy, according to industry sources....
Juniper selects Meru’s WLAN platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Juniper Networks today said it has inked a partnership with Meru Networks to integrate its line of WLAN and wireless VoIP products with Juniper’s IP routing and security portfolio...
Pingtel proving Open Source model with Earthlink deployment
By: By Tim McElligott
Eighteen months after embarking on a new business model by taking its SIPxchange voice system to the open source community, Pingtel announced that Earthlink has deployed its new open-sourced, SIP-based user agent platform to support the Internet service provider’s free online calling services: Vling....
Arvig Communication deploys MetaSwitch
By: By Vince Vittore
Looking to expand beyond its Perham, Minn., of operations, Arvig Communication Systems today announced that it has deployed a Metaswitch VP3510 Class 4/5 softswitch and UC9000 unified communications system. The switch also will be used to relieve capacity on Arvig’s existing switch, which is has been under pressure because of a rapidly expanding customer base....
Vonage eyeing IPO
By: By Tim McElligott
Vonage is reportedly going to test the nerves of investors by filing for an initial public offering according to the Wall Street Journal, which said Vonage is looking to raise as much as $600 million. ...
VoIP gear sales explode
By: By Carol Wilson
The transformation of the voice network is taking place at a record rate, according to a new report from Infonetics. Revenues from the sale of service provider next generation voice equipment are up 55% year-over-year and 18% in the second quarter of 2005 alone, a record pace, said directing analyst Kevin Mitchell....
Google, Skype rachet up VoIP competition
By: By Carol Wilson
The battle of the Web titans has begun--and where the fallout lands is still uncertain...
StarVox buys NGT termination business
By: By Tim McElligott
New Global Telecom sold its International Wholesale Termination business to the acquisitive start-up StarVox Communications this week and will concentrate on its managed voice-over-IP services strategy...
Avaya and Intel to collaborate on mobile technology
By: By Tim McElligott
From Intel’s Developer Forum this week, Intel and Avaya announced their intent to collaborate on optimizing Avaya’s SIP-based, IP Telephony Softphone for use with notebook computers using Intel’s Centrino mobile technology....
Verizon Wireless to trial end-to-end VoIP over 3G
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless will conduct trials in early 2006 of CDMA 1X EV-DO Revision A, the next step in the evolutionary path of CDMA2000 and the first cellular technology capable of supporting end-to-end Voice over IP. ...
Nuvio warns of disconnects in E911 appeal
By: By Ed Gubbins
In appealing the Federal Communications Commission’s Nov. 28, 2005, deadline for enhanced 911 service readiness, voice-over-IP provider Nuvio has set its own deadline: Nov. 7...
Dual-mode handsets will trigger VoIP explosion
By: By Carol Wilson
