Carriers tell IBM security matters
By: By Tim McElligott
More than half of the top-tier carriers attending a recent carrier summit hosted by IBM Internet Security Systems said their security concerns are strong enough to impede their rollout of new IP-based services and the completion of their triple-play strategies for voice, video and data services...
Skype turns to subscription
By: By Carol Wilson
Skype today unveiled a new North American calling plan, designed to let U.S. and Canadian customers buy a year-long subscription to unlimited voice-over-IP calls to anyone within those two countries...
TMW: Wily chosen for AVIS Catalyst project
By: By Dan O'Shea
DALLAS--CA announced that its Wily Technology division was chosen to provide monitoring solutions for the TeleManagement Forum’s Accelerated VoIP and IMS Services Catalyst project...
ITU: Microsoft promises Telco 2.0
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--Promising to take the telecom industry to the next level in much the same way it has addressed Web services, Microsoft used an ITU Telecom World 2006 press conference today to highlight products and announcements in its advanced telecom initiative...
ITU: Huawei chooses Sylantro for global IMS
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--Huawei has selected Sylantro Systems as the provider of feature services for hosted VoIP offerings, the two companies announced today...
VoIP pioneer Ryla finds pay-off
By: By Carol Wilson
When Mark Wilson decided in 2001 to use Internet telephony to improve his company’s call center services, he didn’t have any role models. Yet he decided to take Ryla Teleservices in that direction because the economics were just too compelling...
SunRocket, 8 by 8 announce deals
By: By Carol Wilson
Two VoIP service providers today announced marketing deals to expand their reach...
Sonus certifiable in rural markets
By: By Tim McElligott
Sonus Networks isn’t a stranger to the rural market, but its status is. The company was bestowed with Rural Utilities Service/Rural Development Utilities Program RUS/RDUP acceptance for much of its core IMS-based product line...
Pac-West secures funding for buildout
By: By Carol Wilson
Pac-West Telecomm, a company in the midst of an ambitious buildout of a national wholesale voice-over-IP network, today announced a major financial restructuring that includes significant new financing from Columbia Ventures, a major telecom venture capital player...
TI extends PIQUA to carrier nets
By: By Dan O'Shea
Texas Instruments announced today that its PIQUA IP quality management software, which is already embedded in customer premises equipment, has been extended for installation in media gateways on carrier networks...
European Commission OKs Nokia Siemens
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The European Commission today approved the proposed networks joint venture between Nokia and Siemens, clearing the final major regulatory hurdle to creating the second largest network infrastructure in the world...
Yahoo!, Linksys team on easy cordless VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
Yahoo! and Linksys this morning introduced a new dual-mode cordless phone system that enables consumers to use Yahoo! Messenger Voice over IP service more easily and without being tied to a PC....
Access line loss slows, says BellSouth
By: By Carol Wilson
In what could be the last earnings call for BellSouth as a separate company, Chief Financial Officer Pat Shannon said access line loss rates are “flattening,” as cable VoIP deployment is completed and losses to wireless substitution are reduced...
Time Warner Cable chooses Siemens for VoIP features
By: By Carol Wilson
Time Warner Cable will use Siemens Networks’ voice feature server to add advanced features to its voice-over-IP offering, including fixed/mobile convergence, the two companies announced today...
VoIP Inc. completes first phase of restructuring
By: By Dan O'Shea
VoIP service provider VoIP Inc. raised $2.3 million in a private placement and also terminated a marketing and distribution agreement as part of the just-completed first phase of its corporate restructuring...
Expansion plans hurt EarthLink’s earnings
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink’s sky-high ambitions have brought the company’s earnings crashing down to earth, as its Helio wireless investment was largely responsible for a third-quarter loss of $3.2 million, or two cents per share...
Sprint reveals CDMA push-to-talk plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint yesterday laid its plans for its next-generation push-to-talk to service, which will bring fully functioning “walkie-talkie” service to its CDMA network as well as link up with Nextel’s successful PTT service...
IVR Tech, MetaSwitch team up on AmeriMex
By: By Tim McElligott
IVR Technologies and MetaSwitch have teamed up to deliver advanced integrated services to AmeriMex Communications, a competitive local exchange carrier in the southern and eastern U.S. serving the U.S. and Latin American markets...
Comptel: TI unveils residential gateway products
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--Texas Instruments this morning announced five new solutions for manufacturers of residential gateways, based on its UR8 processor architecture. The new xDSL chips are aimed at enabling maximum flexibility and functionality in the design of residential gateway products...
Comptel: McLeod adds local wholesale
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--McLeodUSA today formally launched wholesale voice services, including both a UNE-P replacement product and Wholesale DLC Service on the TDM side, as well as an IP-based service aimed at Internet service providers and VoIP providers...
New Global Telecom names mobile vet CEO
By: By Dan O'Shea
Wholesale IP service provider New Global Telecom has hired Mike Donnell, a former CEO of Cellular One, as its new president and CEO...
Nortel CS1500 fires on three cylinders
By: By Tim McElligott
From South Dakota through Quebec and on to Switzerland, Nortel is proving the versatility of its convergent product portfolio. ...
Rebtel gets $20 million from VCs
By: By Carol Wilson
Rebtel Networks, a Swedish start-up using VoIP to offer inexpensive international mobile roaming service, today announced $20 million in VC funding....
Oracle primes the pump with Virtual PBX
By: By Tim McElligott
A service delivery platform is only as good as the services running on top of it. So this week, Oracle introduced the first of what it expects to be thousands of services for its SDP: the Oracle Virtual PBX....
Qwest expands Internet telephony
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest this week said it is expanding its VoIP offerings to include larger businesses that want a direct IP handoff to an enterprise softswitch or IP PBX...
