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UC to grow to $30B market
According to two new reports from Wainhouse Research, the market for unified communications will grow to $30 billion within five years. Rapid growth will be due in large part to the complexity of premises-based UC products with UC services revenues outgrowing traditional conferencing services by 2013 or 2014. The market will rebound in the short... »
Carrier 2010 capex spending to focus on IP backhaul and edge networking
Telecom spending is set to grow in 2010 according to Avian Securities but that growth might not be in the move to IP communications equipment as carriers do not need much equipment. According to Avian Securities analyst Catharine Trebnick, spending will grow 1.5% to $57.7 billion in 2010. Spending will focus mainly on IP backhaul... »
VoIP: Industry of the Decade
Say what you want about where the cool new gadgets are popping up, but according to some analysts, the ‘naughts’ were all about VoIP growth. According to IBISWorld, VoIP was ranked ‘industry of the decade’ for the decade just come to a close. According to the IBISWorld report “in the short period [from 2002 when... »
Telefonica buys JAJAH
Rumors just before the year’s end had surfaced that O2 was going to purchase Internet VoIP company JAJAH and it looks like they were true. Telefonica, O2’s parent company, has reportedly purchased JAJAH for $207 million. JAJAH works much like Skype in that users make VoIP calls over the Internet. The purchase will see JAJAH... »
Mobile VoIP: 2010 Will Be An “Exit” Year
A few days ago I posted an article about VoIP as the “industry of the decade“, meaning that VoIP has been the industry with the highest growth in terms of cumulative revenues. 2008-2009 has also been an important period in terms of market consolidation. Ribbit has been acquired by British Telecom after a very... »
AT&T Wants to Kill The PSTN
TMCnet contributor Gary Kim has an excellent article about AT&T asking the Federal Communications Commission to create a timetable to shutdown the analog PSTN phone system in the United States. AT&T explains that maintaining two networks – IP and PSTN is retarding the deployment of the newer broadband IP network. Ok, I’ll grant you... »
CableVision WiFi Is Really Working
From the earliest of days of public WiFi I have always felt the biggest players that would benefit from it were the cable operators. Seems I was right as Cablevision is proving how in the contiguous areas around New York City that their WiFi cloud is attracting users. And, they are all their already... »
Top Stories of 2009: Mobile VoIP gets real
There are two different and sometimes warring sides to the Mobile VoIP world. There are the application and software developers who have created mobile VoIP apps that use carrier data networks and circumvent carrier voice plans, and then there are the carriers who sometimes wish to block such applications while also making plans to... »
‘VoIP’ Named Industry of the Decade
According to IBISWorld, VoIP was named “Industry Of The Decade” besting even the search engine industry? Surely, you jest. You mean to tell me the VoIP industry beat Google’s, Yahoo’s, and MSN’s (now Bing’s) billions?... »
AT&T mobile data clamp-down to threaten mobile VoIP?
AT&T’s consumer services head, Ralph de la Vega made some interesting remarks that might effect the growth of mobile VoIP on Wednesday. Speaking at the UBS investor conference, de la Vega said that AT&T would soon give heavy mobile data users an incentive to cut back on their data usage. According to AT&T 40 percent of... »
Dragon Dictation for iPhone Addresses Privacy Concerns
There was a bit of controversy surrounding the cool Dragon Dictation speech-recognition app for the Apple iPhone. Namely, some privacy advocates weren’t happy that the app would upload their entire iPhone contact list to Dragon Dictation’s servers. The purpose was merely to improve name recognition and no personally identifiable information such as phone... »
Fring now enables Skype Video Conferencing Support to S60 SmartPhones
Fring is again in acceleration mode after being quiet for a while. With competition popping up in the Mobile VOIP space, Fring still enjoys customer loyalty. Fring now added support for video… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide. … >>> Rest of the Story Related Topics:... »
VoX Communications launches seamless integrated mobile VoIP
VoX Communications is offering a $69.99 a month unlimited voice and data prepaid HTC Touch Pro 2 where its VoIP software is built in so it is native to the device rather than an application running on the device. Users won’t be able to tell they are making VoIP calls. Release Related Topics: application, call,... »
fring offers first-ever mobile VoIP video calls?
The first ever video VoIP calling software for mobile phones? Sounds like a first to me, but maybe those of you playing at home can chime in in the comment section. Nokia smartphones will now be able to make Skype VoIP video conference calls using fring. Fring, a mobile Internet communications service that combines numerous... »
Three Steps To Disrupt The Mobile VoIP Industry
This is a long due post about a mobile communication service that has always been under my radar and that I used a lot when I was a power Nokia user. In the past weeks Fring, the israeli-based mobile VoIP/IM communication service, has really impressed the market with a series of innovations that will definitely... »
Skype for SIP Beta Now Open!
Skype today announced that their Skype for SIP beta program is now “open” to everyone. I was invited to their private beta to test it and have been pleased with the results so far. Though if you read my article you will see I do have some price concerns. Check out the news… LUXEMBOURG, 2 December... »
fring Brings Video calls to iPhone and iPod touch
fring has done it again! A few weeks ago they brought video calls to the Google Android. Then last week they brought video calls to Nokia phones with promises that the Apple iPhone was coming soon. Well, that day has arrived! You can now have video calls on your iPhone I installed fring... »
Judge rejects AT&T Request to pull Verizon ad, AT&T Responds with Anti-Verizon Ad
Break out the popcorn wireless fans, the battle between AT&T and Verizon Wireless is getting ugly! A judge has rejected AT&T’s request to pull the Verizon 3G ad which compares Verizon’s 3G map footprint vs. AT&T’s 3G map footprint where AT&T’s 3G footprint looks downright pathetic. Although the judge rejected AT&T’s request, he... »
Android VoIP Apps go HD
Nimbuzz which offers mobile social messaging services has teamed with GIPS to develop an HD-voice enabled mobile VoIP application for Android phones. Release Related Topics: application, Mobile, mobile VoIP, phone, voice, VoIP, wireless »
Blabbelon Opens a New (VoIP) World for Gamers
Blabbelon, the cross-platform web-based VoIP app designed for video gaming, which I tested yesterday and posted a review today released an official statement about their new offering. I thought I’d share it since it has some good info to compliment my review posted this morning: Stop Venting: Blabbelon Opens a New World for Gamers... »
Blabbelon Launches HD VoIP for Video Games
Video gamers love VoIP in video games but have often been disappointed with poor voice quality – including jitter, lag, and choppiness, inability to continue to talk via VoIP once you close the game and just an overall poor user experience. Well, Blabblelon aims to change all that with the... »
Report: VoIP market grew to $20.7 billion
We’ve heard this before: the bad economy was a boon for VoIP. Well now there is some pretty decent evidence coming out of Infonetics Research with their latest report VoIP and UC Services and Subscribers Report. According to the report, for the first half of 2009 the VoIP services market worldwide grew to $20.7... »
Ring2Skype Enables Free PSTN-to-Skype calls with Local Numbers
Ring2Skype, a new startup, brings yet another way to have free calling by leveraging both Skype and the PSTN. Ring2Skype allows you to have a free local number (in NYC, London, Madrid, etc.), forwarded to your Skype (wherever you are) — once again for FREE. I should point out that Skype charges you for a... »
AdMob Sees Explosive Mobile Phone Internet Usage
A fascinating if not predictable report from AdMob was just released yesterday showing explosive mobile phone web surfing growth. In their September 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report AdMob received more than 100 million ad requests from 14 countries, and more than 10 million ad requests from 64 countries. This data was collected using AdMob’s... »
Security firm demoed hacking and eavesdropping on IPhone mobile VoIP calls
Over the weekend, Sipera Systems demonstrated how easy it was to eavesdrop and record VoIP calls made over an unsecured WiFi network on the iPhone. Using open source software called UCSniff, the security team hacked into the iPhone’s VoIP calls proving that without security software, mobile VoIP calls might not be ready for business... »
SimpleSignal Brings Call Control Toolbar to Hosted VoIP
Hosted VoIP is making great strides, but there is often one problem – with hosted VoIP you don’t get desktop call control. Well, today SimpleSignal introduced its Call Control Toolbar, which adds advanced business VoIP calling features while leveraging their hosted environment. Personally, I am very computer-centric and hate managing my phone calls... »
Apple Approves Another VoIP App, Rebtel
I just learned that Apple has approved yet another VoIP application, this time from Stockholm-based company Rebtel. You can download it from the iTunes Store. The service also works over AT&T’s 3G network, making it less necessary to have a Wi-Fi connection. But in my experience, WiFi-based calling is always better. AT&T announced earlier... »
Will Mobile VoIP Impact Carrier Revenues?
Will Mobile VoIP Impact Carrier Revenues? In-Stat seems to think so. In what has become the flavor of the year, and with good reason, over at In-Stat, their coverage of the Mobile VoIP market continues to reflect what the market looks like. This time they have laid out what the impact will be to the... »
Agito’s Mobility Router puts mobile VoIP over WiFi on Samsung smartphones
Previously available to Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile phones, Agito has extended its Mobility Router software to Samsung smartphones. The software allows users to make low cost international calls over the enterprise’s VoIP network using WiFi on their Samsung handsets. Article Related Topics: call, calls, handset, Info, information, international, International calls, LEC, Mobile, mobile VoIP,... »
No 3G VoIP Was Only Blocked On Apple’s iPhone Not Nokias
Let’s get the facts straight about Voice over 3G here in the USA as I’m growing tired of the story being about AT&T and Apple when for the past few years Voice over 3G on Nokia N and E series devices worked. I’ve been using my agency’s client, Truphone from time to time that way... »