BT IS SEEKING to recruit a million net voice customers inside 12 months in an attempt to precede the inevitable decline in its fixed-line revenues and head off a wave of competition.
According to a report in The Times, the telecoms behemoth said that one in 10 of its voice customers could be VoIP users inside […]
The government-funded Industrial Technology Research Institute announced July 12 that it had established the ViTA Forum to set certification standards for Voice over Internet Protocol products made in Taiwan.
Playing on the Latin word vita, meaning “life,” and an abbreviation of “VoIP Taiwan,” the ViTA Forum hopes its […]
While the question of who invented the electric telephone is still hotly disputed–Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis and Alexander Graham Bell are all credited with the invention–what is beyond doubt is that it long ago changed life for people almost everywhere. Furthermore, through repeated innovations, the descendents of those early telephones continue to enhance life […]
Time Warner Telecom Inc. aid on Thursday it has agreed to buy privately held communications company Xspedius Communications LLC for about $531.5 million in cash and stock, to expand its network reach and ability to serve multi-location and multi-city customers.
For the full year of 2007, Time Warner Telecom expects Xspedius’ stand-alone operations to generate about […]
Motorola Inc. on Friday launched its first online-game-playing mobile phone, picking China for the initiative in a bid to tap into one of the world’s top game markets.
The U.S. firm, the world’s second-biggest cellphone maker, rolled out its E680G, a modified version of an existing gaming handset adapted to play online titles from Shanda Interactive […]
The MOTOFONE brings high-end design to an affordable handset aimed at “the next billion users”. Besides price point, the MOTOFONE aims to simplify the user experience by relying more on icons and voice prompts than text. The display is specially formulated to perform well in direct sunlight, something that most LCDs balk at.
Features of […]
While it comes as no surprise (thanks to the ample supply of leakage), Motorola has officially announced the KRZR K1. Codenamed the Canary, the Motorola RAZR K1 will come in both GSM and CDMA variants. The CDMA version will be dubbed the K1m, a la the existing RAZR V3m that Verizon Wireless is currently […]
Sigma Systems, www.sigma-systems.com, a leading provider of service management, provisioning and OSS solutions that deliver next-generation services on IP broadband and wireless networks, has joined Level 3 Communications (3)VoIP(SM) Technology Alliance Program (TAP) to provide a complete end-to-end telephony service management solution, including competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) inter-carrier, electronic bonding gateway (e-bonding) integration.
As communication […]
Message Technologies, Inc. (MTI), an industry-leading provider of speech automation and call center-outsourcing services, today announces that it has added cost-effective VoIP capability for its more than 2,000 clients.
“Anticipating the future, MTI’s large investment in back-end VoIP infrastructure is in direct response to our clients’ needs. Now that VoIP has progressed to being technologically stable […]
Motorola has officially announced the RIZR Z3, or what we have known in rumors as the Capri. It’s the first slide-style handset in the RAZR design series that is destined for a US launch (there was one prior to now just for the Asian market).
Features of the Motorola RIZR Z3 include:
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Households with home offices will drive consumer adoption of voice-over-Internet (VoIP) in the next year, a research firm said Wednesday.
In a research note, Framingham, Mass.-based IDC claimed that income-generating or corporate-provided home offices are two to three times more likely to sign up for VoIP in the next 12 months than is the average household.
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VoIP call quality has taken a nosedive over the last 18 months, with nearly 20 percent of VoIP callers experiencing unacceptable voice quality, according to a survey done by Brix Networks.
The results come from Brix Networks’ TestYourVoIP.com site, a free VoIP quality-testing portal. Brix claims that nearly one million VoIP phone tests have been conducted […]