SIP Forum puts members on compliance road
By Tim McElligott
The SIP Forum took its first formal steps today toward solving problems with interconnection between service providers and their IP-PBX customers. The forum launched a SIPconnect Compliance program for ensuring interoperability among equipment manufacturers, software providers and service providers....
XO adds three IP services
By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today announced three new services in its portfolio, including session initiation protocol trunking, a new managed IP PBX service and an integration of its XO Options Flex with its MPLS virtual private network offering....
R.I.P. VoIP? Not hardly
By Carol Wilson
The demise of SunRocket and the ongoing woes of Vonage haven't stopped the voice-over-IP industry from continuing to push out new solutions...
Speakeasy shops Best Buy success
By Carol Wilson
A week after Speakeasy announced higher-bandwidth services based on ADSL 2 links it purchases from Covad Communications, the Best Buy subsidiary is announcing more flexible pricing for its voice-over-IP service to accommodate small businesses and more VoIP phone choices as well...
Can Jack make VoIP Magic?
By Carol Wilson
With a snazzy name like Magic Jack and a price as low as $19.95 a year for unlimited service, a new voice-over-IP device is aimed at redefining what has been a troubled market...
Surviving — and thriving — in VoIP wholesale
By Carol Wilson
For all the discouraging talk about voice-over-IP pure-play problems, there are companies succeeding in the space in some unusual ways, such as Momentum Telecom. ...
One quarter of voice lines shipped to SMBs now IP
By Ed Gubbins
Shipments of Internet Protocol lines in the second quarter were up 30% from a year earlier, according to Dell’Oro Group...
Former SunRocket users still suffering
By Carol Wilson
A group of former SunRocket VoIP subscribers are still suffering the ill effects of that company’s demise, as the transition to new VoIP operators has been bumpy...
IP services brighten XO Holdings’ Q2 picture
By Mark Donahue
Despite positive gains for its IP services, XO Holdings posted a slightly higher net loss for the second-quarter this week and saw a dip in revenue over the same period...
Policy makers seek stronger E911 solutions for VoIP
By Joan Engebretson
New legislation and a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) from the Federal Communications Commission aim to address lingering incompatibilities between emergency number or 911 service and voice-over-IP service...
Sipera sounds VoIP security alarm
By Carol Wilson
The proliferation of voice over IP and softphones—as well as smartphones, which combine Wi-Fi access with cellular technology—poses a significant security risk for enterprise data networks, a leading security software company is saying today. ...
In the spotlight: 8x8’s Huw Rees
By Carol Wilson
SunRocket’s well-documented financial collapse and Vonage’s continued financial and legal problems have cast a long shadow over the pure-play VoIP market. Huw Rees, vice president of marketing and sales at 8x8, which operates the Packet8 VoIP service, spoke to Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson about his company’s prospects...
‘ooma’ promising home telephony revolution
By Carol Wilson
A new VoIP company is bringing peer-to-peer technology and social networking to home telephony in a new way, promising to sell home phone replacement systems that enable customers to avoid paying any voice calling fees...
SunRocket offers customers transition to Packet8
By Carol Wilson
SunRocket, the VoIP operator that abruptly ceased operations Monday, has designated Packet8 as the preferred provider for the 200,000 customers it is giving up, Packet8 operator 8x8 announced today...
Big River finds small cable lucrative
By Carol Wilson
Big River Telephone Co. started off in 2001 as a typical CLEC, targeting small to mid-sized businesses with traditional voice services, initially as a reseller of UNE-P lines but then on its own facilities, serving rural communities in southeastern Missouri...
Sylantro fuels hosted VoIP for education market
By Carol Wilson
Education Networks of America, a managed Internet services provider targeting the education market, today said it is rolling out a hosted VoIP service for school districts, municipal and state agencies and libraries using Sylantro Systems’ Synergy platform...
Intelliverse lays Brix on VoIP
By Carol Wilson
Hosted VoIP provider Intelliverse today said it is adding customer-monitoring to its services, using converged service assurance capabilities from Brix Networks...
MegaPath extends reach of managed voice, data, security
By Carol Wilson
Managed service provider MegaPath today announced it is expanding the reach of its “Duet” service, a managed IP data, voice and security offering targeting small to mid-sized businesses, initially targeting the Northeast U.S. but planning expansion nationwide...
Verizon VoIP to power WindowsLive calls
By Dan O'Shea
Microsoft is adding a free calling service to its online searching service, and will use VoIP from Verizon Business to provide the new feature. Windows Live Call for Free will enable consumers searching www.maps.live.com to find local businesses to make a one-click phone call to many of the advertisers listed there...
Worldnet founder: Copper landlines gone by 2013
By Ed Gubbins
The copper “last mile” line to the house won’t exist in six years, according to Tom Evslin...
VSNL touts wholesale VoIP
By Carol Wilson
After assembling the pieces of a global network, VSNL International is now moving to strengthen its standing as a leading provider of wholesale VoIP services, this week announcing a deal with Skype to provide termination for its Skype Out service...
XO cuts its losses
By Carol Wilson
XO Communications reported Thursday that it has reduced its net loss for the first quarter by more than 50% over the previous year’s first quarter, although its revenues fell slightly as the competitive carrier continues to shift its product mix to data and IP services and away from legacy voice offerings....
Vonage won’t get retrial
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has refused to grant Vonage a retrial of the patent case it lost against Verizon Communications earlier this year. ...
M5 gets aggressive on Voice as Service
By Carol Wilson
M5 Networks, the competitive service provider serving mid-sized companies in New York and Chicago with hosted VoIP and advanced features, is getting more aggressive with its marketing message, deciding to proclaim “The end of the Phone System.”...
Verizon Business offers voice quality tools
By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced new ways for its enterprise customers to insure they maintain voice quality when converging services onto a single data pipe...
