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Lights Out for Phone Networks
SIP VoIP devices already account for as much as 20 percent
of landline phone traffic, with mobile networks soon to embrace the VoIP as
Fring and Truphone offer options to traditional voice plans, Read more...
Net2Phone drops prices, gets credit for breaking Kuwait VoIP blockade
Net2Phone has dropped prices on its VoiceLine resident broadband phone service to $19 a month and is waiving all activation, equipment and shipping charges. Read more...
Budgets drive N. American SMEs to hosted IP telephony
Research and Markets "North American Hosted IP Telephony and VoIP Access Service Markets 2008" (written by Frost & Sullivan) finds that North Read more...
Limited Budgets Drive North American SMEs to Hosted IP Telephony
Research and
Markets “North American Hosted IP Telephony and VoIP Access Service Markets
2008" (written by Frost & Sullivan) finds that Read more...
+883 world numbers on offer
Belgium VoIP backbone provider Voxbone is to offer +883 world numbers to enable VoIP users to have a global non-geographic number for all inward calls. The initiative is called iNum and the idea Read more...
Global IP carrier sales top $1B in Q3
Worldwide IP telephony carrier market quarterly revenues have exceed $1 billion for the first time in the third quarter of this year, according to market research by California based Dell'Oro Group. Read more...
VoIP quality on the upswing
Conventional wisdom holds PSTN trumps VoIP when it comes to over-all quality, but the gap is closing, according to a study from Keynote Competitive Research of San Mateo, Calif. The study compared Read more...
PSTN and VoIP get equal time in China
The public switched telephone network and VoIP are neck and neck in China. According to a report accessed by the VoIP Monitor, call durations on both systems were virtually the same, but VoIP Read more...
Guest Commentary: Rob Wolpov
Guest Commentary: Rob Wolpov FierceVoIP welcomes this no-free-lunch perspective from Rob Wolpov, president of hosted PBX VoIP provider Junction Networks in New York. Junction Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Global Crossing expands its reach
Global Crossing has added Hong Kong, Rome and Milan to its network of VoIP Local Service cities, allowing DID numbers on the PSTN to be bridged directly to customers' IP networks. Read more...