Tag Archive
Windstream launches new VoIP/SIP service
Windstream is launching a new VoIP and SIP Trunking solution called Dynamic Office-SIP. The tier 2 telco’s business services solution will combine voice, data, high-speed Internet with IP communications using SIP to provide cost-savings over legacy phone systems. The new IP communications offering provides customers with access to Windstream’s private IP network allowing customers to... »
Bisnoff Back as TelePacific Channel Chief
TelePacific Communications, a CLEC operating in California and Nevada, announced Thursday changes to its TelePartner program, including the return of Ken Bisnoff as its channel chief, changes to its support staff and new onboarding and training programs.Bisnoff, senior vice president of strategic opportunities, launched TelePacific’s Telepartner Channel Program in 2002 …(567 words) ... »
Bandwidth.com opens wholesale voice on IP-network
Bandwidth.com, a nationwide CLEC and supplier of VoIP and SIP Trunking services, announced today the general availability of wholesale voice origination on its all-IP network, FlexNetwork. The offering will work as a platform for businesses looking to build nationwide VoIP services. The company already has businesses like Yext, Voxeo and OnState using the FlexNetwork for... »
AT&T to Google: So You Wanna Be a Phone Company?
A few months, ago when covering the launch of Google Voice, I wrote a post entitled: Meet Google, Your Phone Company. That headline sums up why Google’s voice service has drawn the ire of everyone from AT&T to Apple Today, Ma Bell asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Google Voice on the grounds... »
Twitter Conferences Are The Rage
Last week TwitrCon was in SF was viewed as a hit, more because of the people in the room, than what was necessarily said on stage. Upcoming in this month is Jeff Pulver’s 140 Conference is happening on June 16 & 17 in New York City and it’s lining up to be something special. The... »
Wireless Access Needs to Grow
Wired has a story about wireless Internet access, calling the questions as to why we have so little of it. It's timely, especially in light of the nations (and likely the worlds) looming data network access crush wirelessly until fatter pipe access becomes more ubiquitous. Let's start with some history. The mobile operators didn't really embrace... »
Ifbyphone gets first carrier customer for SIP applications offering
Ifbyphone announced its first carrier customer for its “cloud telephony” SIP application service. Network Communications, a CLEC based in Longview, Texas, will connect to Ifbyphone’s servers though SIP trunking, which the companies said will allow Network Communications to offer telephony applications such as “find me” call forwarding, call tracking and IVR to its enterprise... »
Ifbyphone offers carriers value-add services via SIP trunking
Ifbyphone is announcing this week that it is offering all of its Phone 2.0/mashup style value-added services as white label offerings via SIP trunking, enabling softswitch-equipped carriers to sell phone automation services on top of their VoIP/SIP offerings. “As transport prices continue to collapse, CLECs and regional telcos and hosted providers need applications to add... »
Hosted VoIP goes better with UC
Frost & Sullivan says integrating unified communications (UC) applications such as chat, presence and conferencing, as well as more enmeshed apps such as CRM and ERP, into so-called communications-enabled business processes will provide the most opportunity for the hosted VoIP market. Close to 1 million installed hosted IP telephony lines were installed at the end of... »
SkyWi deadbeats independent carriers, New Mexico customers
In a letter sent to the New Mexico Public Regulations Commission (PRC) on Tuesday, SkyWi said it no longer has the financial resources to do business in the state. The PRC has subsequently and bluntly warned customers of SkyWi and its subsidiaries that they should either seek other providers or assurances from SkyWi that... »
SkyWi may be selling, but Telekenex isn’t buying
The SkyWi/Qwest saga just got stranger. On February 4, the embittered VoIP/ISP said it was going to sell off its VoIP operations to California-based CLEC Telekenex. Two days later, Telekenex issued a terse one paragraph statement saying that it had “discontinued its discussions.” More specifically, the release said- “Telekenex today announced it has discontinued its discussions... »
Why Twitter Shouldn’t Sell
Sarah Lacy, as we were taping her Tech Ticker video show earlier today, asked me about San Francisco-based startup Twitter and its rumored fundraising effort, which would value it in excess of $250 million. Should the company, she asked, put itself up for sale? My answer was “it depends” — on whether Twitter sees... »
President-Elect Barack Obama’s $40 billion Handout Bailout to Internet Providers
President-Elect Barack Obama is planning to send up to $40 billion in grants and loans bailout funds toward improving broadband availability and speeds as part of broader economic stimulus efforts, according to UBS analysts. According to Telephony Online: A draft of the proposed $825-billion economic stimulus bill circulating on Capitol Hill today lists... »
Another $100 Million for Rural WiMAX Operator
As you know, we have been tracking the progress of Denver-based rural WiMAX operator Open Range Communications for quite some time now. The company has secured $100 million in funding from One Equity Partners, though it had lined up this financing as far back as March 2008. The company had previously secured $267 million... »
S&P Slaps Integra Telecom for a Second Time
We’re feeling some sympathy for CLEC Integra Telecom, which once again is facing some pretty harsh downgrades from ratings firm Standard Poor’s. SP lowered Integra’s corporate credit and issue-level ratings by two levels on Tuesday, citing the bad economy, an uncertain regulatory environment and, most of all, Integra’s $1.2 …(77 words) ... »