Skype is introducing a $30 annual subscription to make unlimited calls with the Internet-based telephone service to any regular or mobile phone number within the United States and Canada.
The new calling plan being announced Wednesday comes as Skype phases out a promotion launched in May allowing unlimited free calls in those two countries.
Skype, acquired last [...]
Telchemy,® Incorporated, the global leader in Voice and Video over IP performance management technology, announced the release of DVQattest/EN a powerful active test tool for Voice over IP, IP Videoconferencing and HD telepresence service assurance. DVQattest/EN uses Telchemy’s market leading VQmon technology to provide network assessment, pre-deployment testing, SLA monitoring and advanced network troubleshooting for [...]
San Francisco, CA, December 13, 2006 – International VoIP reseller TalkFree, has added two new tools to its centerpiece product, the “VoIP Phone Business in a Box.â€
The first tool, the “Inbound Telephone Numbers†program, arms TalkFree business customers and service resellers with a new service using Direct Inward Dial numbers ( DID ) [...]
Small companies are keen to embrace VoIP, but still aren’t seeing the real advantages of convergence.
An Orange-commissioned report, which goes under the catchy title of Small and Medium Enterprise Business Communications in the UK, is drawn from on-line interviews with 181 UK SMEs and asks about their current spending as well as plans for the [...]
On Thursday, city government offices, the Taipei City Council, and 234 schools throughout the city switched to VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) systems from traditional phone lines, an official said. The entire effort is expected to save the city NT$400,000 (US$12,340) per month in phone bills starting from early next year.
VOIP technology allows users to [...]
CHRISTMAS is the time of year for catching up with friends and family, and not just those living down the road. The holiday brings absent friends on distant shores very much into our thoughts, particularly given that tens of thousands of Scots live, work or have retired overseas.
The good news is that with a little [...]
In October, subscriptions to all forms of communication technology increased, with the exception of mobile telephony subscriptions, the National Statistics Office reported yesterday.
The internet subscription index rose by 0.3 per cent as at end October. Narrowband and broadband subscriptions were recorded at 58,362 and 36,674 respectively.
In the month under review, the cable and digital television [...]
They may once have looked like the Keystone Cossacks. But Russia’s troika of top wireless operators — Mobile Telesystems , Vimpel Communications and Megafon — have delivered mobile phones to most of the country’s 143 million citizens in a few years.
The trio have tripped each other up repeatedly. They have frustrated investors with a shell [...]
Internet telephony will be the highlight of this year’s inaugural GULFCOMMS 2006, the Middle East’s largest telecommunication technology event, as key VoIP player Efonica unveils a host of innovative services during the five-day event.
GULFCOMMS 2006 runs from November 18-22, at the Zabeel Hall of the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, and will be held [...]
The open source community smells opportunity in the telecom world.
Open source software never posed a strong challenge to conventional voice technology, which was locked into proprietary hardware-software PBX bundles. But as voice over IP gains in businesses and with consumers, the shift to converged IP-based networks lets open source developers treat communications in the same [...]
VOIP5000, Inc., a provider of click to call services under the Clixme name as well as other VoIP applications for online businesses, announced today that it has signed up “The Auto Dealer, LLC” as an affiliate to provide its Clixme service to over 250 member dealerships. Additionally, the service will be made available for private [...]
The latest study by The Radicati Group, “Service Provider Unified Communications Market, 2006-2010,” provides market size, four-year forecasts, technology trends, and competitive information for the Service Provider Unified Communications market.
The study looks at the market as comprising of 3 segments: Hosted UC Service Providers, which are pure-play ASP hosted solutions, Telecom UC Service Providers, which [...]