Cox adds five VoIP markets
By: By Carol Wilson
Cox Communications will bring its VoIP service to five new markets this year, announcing that Cox Digital Telephone will be available in Las Vegas, Macon, Ga., Topeka, Kan., and its markets in Central Florida and the Gulf Coast area of Florida. Those additions bring Cox’s voice markets to 22, which is 70 percent of its existing footprint, the company announced. ...
XO hits 1000 customer mark for VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications announced today that it has signed up 1000 small to mid-sized business customers to its Voice over IP service in its first three months. ...
ECI Telecom up 26%, looks to IPTV future
By: By Tim McElligott
Israel’s ECI Telecom reported a 26% increase this week in second-quarter revenues as it generated $153 million. The company also announced a contract with a major European carrier to deliver IPTV services...
Comcast signs three for voice connectivity
By: By Carol Wilson
Comcast is sharing the wealth, signing up not one but three national service providers to augment its private network in delivering Comcast Digital Voice...
Comcast to count on AT&T
By: By Carol Wilson
Comcast has extended its contract to buy wholesale services from AT&T to support its Comcast Digital Voice offering. ...
OPASTCO: Nortel begins next DMS evolution
By: By Vince Vittore
BOSTON--Nortel, which claims about two-thirds of the rural switching market, is putting in place plans that will allow rural telcos to migrate their existing DMS switches to true voice-over-IP environment...
Intrado provides 911 for CallVantage and Vonage
By: By Tim McElligott
Longmont, Colo.-based Intrado has contracted with AT&T and Vonage to provide nationwide enhanced 911 services for their voice-over-IP customers...
Converged access is where the action is in telecom
By: By Rob Munoz
The convergence of communications and computer access technologies is emerging as a growing market force sweeping across each of the two industries. This convergence is happening on a large scale within wireline and wireless access infrastructure equipment...
Vistula offers pay-as-you-go VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
A new global Voice over IP player is targeting service providers with a business model that favors revenue-sharing over up-front fees. ...
Vonage locates TCS in E911 search
By: By Tim McElligott
Vonage, the undisputed leader among independent residential VoIP providers and bulls-eye for the controversial E-911 issues, has partnered with TeleCommunication Systems to wipe the target off its back and comply with FCC requirements for emergency service capability...
Intrado deploys Sonus technology for VoIP 911
By: By Tim McElligott
Sonus Networks said this week it will supply switching and routing technologies to Intrado for use in delivering VoIP E9-1-1 calls through the company’s V9-1-1SM Mobility Service...
Vonage makes Brightpoint master agent
By: By Dan O'Shea
VoIP service provider Vonage has named Brightpoint Activation Services, a unit of logistics and distribution firm Brightpoint, as a master agent for marketing and support of Vonage service plans, devices and new customer account activations...
Covad brings VoIP to legacy PBXs
By: By Carol Wilson
Covad Communications is offering its business customers the chance to experience the advantages of voice over Internet protocol without the capital cost of replacing their existing TDM phone equipment...
Pannaway to beef up voice offering
By: By Vince Vittore
Pannaway plans to announce toward the end of this month a series of enhancements to its BAS access platform that will target incumbent carriers wanting to make the transition to voice over IP. ...
France Telecom, Equant, Cisco bring VoIP to Airbus
By: By Carol Wilson
France Telecom, its subsidiary Equant and equipment vendor Cisco Systems will build what is being called the largest single deployment of voice over IP to date for airplane manufacturer Airbus at its campus in Toulouse, France...
Sprint completes loop on Cisco relation
By: By Vince Vittore
Cisco Systems and Sprint announced today they have taken their relationship to a new level with the carrier becoming the first service provider to achieve the Cisco IP VPN Multiservice QoS Certified status...
China Unicom deploys Alcatel, Sylantro
By: By Dan O'Shea
China United Telecommunications Corp. Ltd. (China Unicom) has deployed an IP services solution consisting of Sylantro's application feature servers with Alcatel's 5020 Call Session Controller, to deliver broadband services to the Shanghai metropolitan area and customers in eight provinces of China...
Cox win moves Empirix into VoIP network management
By: By Tim McElligott
Cable TV company broadens vendor mix as it launches VoIP services...
Yankee Group: Rural SMBs want different VoIP services
By: By Vince Vittore
Small and medium business users in small markets are just as likely to adopt voice-over-IP--however, the applications they want are significantly different than those of their counterparts in larger cities, according to a report put out today by The Yankee Group...
WCA: Broadsoft tests interop with SOMA, adds WISPs
By: By Dan O'Shea
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Broadband wireless equipment vendor SOMA Networks said at the WCA 2005 conference here that it has completed VoIP interoperability testing with Broadsoft, one of the leading VoIP applications software firms...
Start-up offering E911-for-VoIP answer
By: By Carol Wilson
A start-up company with a patented solution to the voice-over-IP E911 problem is peddling its technology to the telecom industry, hoping to see it come to market quickly...
More Brand X fallout
By: By Carol Wilson
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed cable companies to continue restricting access to their broadband network may not be the bane to consumers that some are fearing...
Level 3 takes leadership on nomadic E911
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications today announced it is added support for nomadic voice-over-IP users to its E911 offering. The new capability will be market-ready before the end of 2005...
Event shows VoIP supremacy, but questions sizzle of IMS
By: By Glenn Bischoff
Speakers divided on architecture but agree VoIP is taking over telecom...
