GotVMail rolls out small business services
By: By Carol Wilson
A new software provider is using voice over IP to offer small businesses an inexpensive suite of voice communications services that will make them look larger and more professional without buying expensive hardware. ...
Level 3 withdraws VoIP access petition
By: By Carol Wilson
Apparently anticipating a defeat, Level 3 Communications yesterday withdrew its petition to ask the FCC not to impose the current access fee structure on phone calls made using voice over IP...
MTA: Prepare to fight
By: By Vince Vittore
MINNEAPOLIS--Incumbent carriers must be prepared to fight against all forms of competitors that want to access local networks without paying for it, said Gene South, chairman of the U.S. Telecom Association....
BellSouth adds multi-ring to Centrex
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth is adding Simultaneous Ring service to its Centrex offering, giving traditional voice customers a chance to use a service most associated with voice over IP....
Empirix testing performance for BroadSoft and Ditech
By: By Tim McElligott
Empirix, a leading supplier of VoIP testing systems and home of Hammer test systems, said this week it will serve as BroadSoft's primary supplier of test tools for verifying and validating performance of its VoIP application software and platforms. ...
Global Crossing sees promise despite negative earnings report
By: By Carol Wilson
Declining revenues in the fourth quarter of 2004 is actually a good news story for Global Crossing, company executives maintain. ...
Adelphia partners with Level 3 for VoIP service
By: By Carol Wilson
Adelphia Communications selected Level 3 Communications as its infrastructure provider for the voice over IP service it plans to launch later this year. ...
Sonus reports first full year of profitability, second year of internal control problems
By: By Tim McElligott
Sonus Networks reported today its best year on record with 2004 revenue growth of 83%....
InFocus: VoIP and the necessity of real-time billing
By: By John Trembley, TimesTen Inc.
Broadband telephony providers offering VoIP services turn to real-time billing for a truly differentiated customer experience...
AOL helps usher in VoIP's growth spurt
By: By Carol Wilson
The Internet giant's plan for a consumer offering is just one of the reasons that VoIP is finally transcending its reputation as an early-adopter service....
Attention, Wal-Mart Shoppers
By: By Carol Wilson
Voice over IP is now on sale through the largest U.S. retail outlet, Wal-Mart, as well as via home shopping television....
VON: Legerity puts StarCore DSP under the hood
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN JOSE--Legerity announced this week that it will use StarCore' Digital Signal Processing technology for use in IP communication applications. ...
Bell Canada, Clearwire team for VoIP
By: By Jason Ankeny
Bell Canada this week announced it will partner with Craig McCaw's broadband wireless venture Clearwire. ...
VON: Radvision, Jasomi ink Canadian carrier deal
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN JOSE--Radvision and Jasomi Networks announced at the Voice on the Net show today a desktop multimedia conferencing solution for Microsoft's newly released Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 3.0. ...
VON: Spirent tabulates new customers with Abacus
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Spirent Communications launched an IP Telephony rollout platform this week at VON that assesses and validates signaling performance and call quality in pre-production VoIP networks....
VON: Broadsoft unveils work behind Primus
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN JOSE--BroadSoft announced at the Voice on the Net show here today that Primus Telecommunications is using its BroadWorks VoIP applications platform to support its Lingo Internet service....
VON: Sylantro bags Bandwidth.com and NuVox as feature server customers
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Nationwide Internet access provider for business Bandwidth.com and super-regional integrated communications provider NuVox said this week they will use Sylantro System's application feature server to advance their respective voice-over-IP offerings....
VON: VoIP just means to cable's end
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Major cable players are using voice over IP primarily to compete with incumbent telcos for basic residential voice service and not to push the envelope with innovative new features....
VON: AOL announced VoIP launch
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--As expected, AOL Chairman and CEO Jon Miller announced today that his company will launch a mass-market voice over IP service next month, based on Level 3 Communications' national VoIP infrastructure and Sonus Networks softswitches....
VON: Xten softphones go retail
By: By Jason Meyers
SAN JOSE--Softphone developer Xten Networks announced a deal at the Voice on the Net show here this week that it is bundling its eyeBeam softphone product with GN Netcom headsets for retail distribution in the U.S. and Canada....
VON: Powell bids fond farewell
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell said goodbye to his favorite audience today, getting a standing ovation from a Voice on the Net crowd appreciative of his fight to keep voice over IP free of regulation....
VON: Vonage touts VoIP success
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Vonage is adding 15,000 new customers a week and is "on a quick and easy march to one million lines," Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Citron told the Voice on the Net conference Monday....
VON: Kagoor announces Swisscomm contract and adds data NAT functionality
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Kagoor Networks will be showing off new data network address translation capabilities for its session border controller product at this week's Voice on the Net conference in San Jose. ...
VON: Consumers not thrilled by cheap VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--A surprising 71% of consumers would consider switching to voice-over-IP service, but a more surprising 60% of those lose interest when the service gets too cheap, according to a research study commissioned by Level 3 Communications, a provider of wholesale VoIP services. ...
VON: SBC outlines VoIP strategy
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Mark Fishler may not have felt like "one of the gang" when he showed up for his first keynote speech at the Voice on the Net conference in San Jose Monday. ...
