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FlatPlanet and Dynamic Caller ID
Pal Moshe Myer sent a few bloggers a note about his post that revealed a new offer of Dynamic Caller ID. Om has some comments. I spoke with Moshe about it, and right now the service is tied to his company selling SIP termination, but in my view the real value is as a cloud... »
Verizon Wireless Rolls Out Cheaper Pricing Plans
If those ATT and Verizon Wireless television commercials were fighting words, the fight may now have really begun with the announcement that Verizon has cut rates on its wireless plans, effective Monday.The company’s nationwide unlimited voice plan has been slashed from $99 all the way down to $69.99 per month. …(188 words) Related Topics: cheap,... »
8×8: Service outage caused by unaffiliated ISP interference
8×8’s VoIP service outage on January 12 lasted about four hours and resulted in some frustration for both customers and the company itself. 8×8 was gracious enough to provide us with some more details about what exactly happend. According to Joan Citelli, director of Corporate Communications for 8×8, the outage occured when an unaffiliated Tier-1... »
Skype to FCC: Keep the Internet Open & Neutral
Skype, a big proponent of open networks and net neutrality, in a filing today with the Federal Communications Commission argued that net neutrality was “about growing the broadband ecosystem and preserving a borderless, open Internet” and said it would “promote investment, jobs and innovation.” The company said that it “welcomes the Commission’s focus on preserving... »
Verizon Wireless Rolls Out Cheaper Pricing Plans
If those ATT and Verizon Wireless television commercials were fighting words, the fight may now have really begun with the announcement that Verizon has cut rates on its wireless plans, effective Monday.The company’s nationwide unlimited voice plan has been slashed from $99 all the way down to $69.99 per month. …(188 words) ... »
Here Comes Dynamic Caller ID
Flat Planet Phone Co., an Israeli VoIP startup, has developed a new VoIP technology called Dynamic Caller ID that essentially allows you to have multiple caller IDs built on the fly. These caller IDs depend on the local number being dialed. For instance, if you call someone in Orange County, Calif., from New York,... »
Droid Does, BlackBerry Doesn’t…And Vice-Versa
Yesterday I received a Motorola Milestone (the EU version of the Droid) for testing purposes kindly offered by a local store. Faithful readers should be aware I’ve been using a BlackBerry Bold lately and definitely loved it. At the same time, I’m a geek and early adopter so I’m very curious to test this... »
Skype to FCC: Keep Internet Open & Neutral
Skype, a big proponent of open networks and net neutrality, in a filing today with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), argued that net neutrality was “about growing the broadband ecosystem and preserving a borderless, open Internet” and said it would “promote investment, jobs and innovation.” The company said that it “welcomes the Commission’s focus on... »
Polycom Expands Integration for IBM UC
In conjunction with IBM (IBM) Lotusphere taking place next week in Orlando, Fla., Polycom Inc. (PLCM) has announced an expansion of its integrated voice and visual communication solutions for customers deploying IBM Unified Communication and Collaboration (UC2) environments with support for Lotus Sametime and Lotus Notes.The combined solution is designed to give …(363 words) Related Topics: IBM,... »
Packet8 back online after outage
8×8 says the failure of its VoIP system Packet8 yesterday was caused, according to the company, by “an Internet element beyond our control.” The service returned by 4:30 PM pacific time and the company is still looking into the causes of the disruption. A major issue during the disruption was 8×8’s own internal systems (including their website) went down... »
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... »
Voxbone sees growth in 2009
Not everyone is blaming the recession this year, some are actually announcing good news! Belgium-based Voxbone, which provides local and toll-free phone numbers over its own private VoIP network worldwide, saw substantial growth in 2009. Voxbone’s 2009 revenue was up 60 percent over 2008. Unfortunately, since Voxbone is a private company they didn’t actually disclose... »
8 x 8 Has an Outage
I received an email late yesterday afternoon from a reader about 8 x 8 suffering an outage. Unlike Tom Keating, who posted, I didn’t post, and was relieved that their PR folks had been quickly in touch with their customers over night, explaining the situation. In an era where no company (other than maybe the... »
Telecom Sector Showing Positive Trend – PTA Annual Report 2008-09
Out of the top four cellular players Ufone has been the biggest impetus behind the Cellular industry’s 17% growth as declared by PTA in its annual report for the year 2008-2009. Ufone’s is at the top with an astounding revenue growth of 46% during past year. The report states that cellular telecom sector in Pakistan... »
Packet8 Service Down
Almost exactly one year ago 8X8’s Packet8 VoIP service suffered a major outage due to DNS issues. It now appears that both their domains 8×8.com and www.packet8.net are down. But more importantly their VoIP phone service is down. Stay tuned while I try and find out more… Update #1: from Joan Citelli Director,... »
GL Debuts Enhanced Voice-Band Analyzer
GL Communications has announced the release of enhanced Voice-Band Analyzer (VBA) – an analysis tool for monitoring voice-band traffic over VoIP, TDM, and wireless networks.“It can host a variety of analysis algorithms,” said Jagdish Vadalia, GL senior manager. “Built-in algorithms include ITU-T P.56 Active Voice Level analysis, Line Echo (Hybrid) …(251 words) Related Topics: BT,... »
Nuance’s Long Term Growth Story
Mark Riddix submits: I picked up shares of Nuance Communications (NUAN) at $16.70. Nuance Communication is a computer software company that specializes in developing voice recognition applications. Nuance has been investing heavily in mobile voice technology. It recently struck a deal with Ford (F) to offer its voice command software in Ford vehicles. Nuance... »
MagicJack ‘femtojack’ uses mobile phones to make VoIP calls
The people behind MagicJack, a plug-and-play VoIP device, have recognized the trend of consumers cutting their traditional landline voice connections like much of the telecom industry and have updated their offering to reflect that. MagicJack’s original offering was a USB device that came with a phone jack–plug your regular landline phone into the MagicJack,... »
See you at IT Expo
It’s getting a little too cold in DC, so we thought we might take the publication to warmer climes next week. I plan to be down in Miami next week on Thursday and Friday for the IT Expo. I am looking forward checking out all the latest developments in IP communications on the show... »
Siemens, Shared Technology team to bring OpenScape to enterprises
Siemens and distribution partner Shared Technology are joining forces and targeting enterprises looking to migrate from legacy to IP/UC on an incremental basis. The offering will allow companies to expand their IP systems on a seat-by-seat license basis with incremental pricing. Buying OpenScape by the seat will mean initial cost savings for cash strapped businesses... »
The Rise and Fall of Voice
GigaOm has an article about the fate of wireline service and the innovations rising from its ashes–VoIP of all colors, HD Voice and the idea of ’social energy.’ Article Related Topics: voice, VoIP »
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... »
Phone.com Unveils Hosted HD Voice Phone Network
Phone.com has announced its new hosted High Definition (HD) Business Phone service. It’s an add-on to Phone.com’s Virtual Office service. The new service allows home offices and other small businesses to enjoy professional welcome greetings, phone menus, extension dialing, sophisticated call routing, voice mail, fax and many more features with …(210 words) ... »
Phone.com Unveils Hosted HD Voice Phone Network
Phone.com has announced its new hosted High Definition (HD) Business Phone service. It’s an add-on to Phone.com’s Virtual Office service. The new service allows home offices and other small businesses to enjoy professional welcome greetings, phone menus, extension dialing, sophisticated call routing, voice mail, fax and many more features with …(210 words) Related Topics: business,... »
College Football Fans Select University of Texas Quarterback Colt McCoy as the AT&T All-America Player of the Year
College football fans made their voices heard and selected the best college football player in the country. AT&T announced today that University of Texas quarterback Colt McCoy is the AT&T All-America Player of the Year, the only major college football award chosen exclusively by fans. Receiving more than 137,000 text votes, McCoy is the... »
The Indian’s Have Spokn
A very interesting web based for telephony followers called Spokn has launched out of India, that looks like a combination of GoogleVoice, Truphone and a SIP trunking provider. Related Topics: call, Google, India, phone, provider, SIP, SIP Trunk, SIP Trunking, trunk, trunking, voice »
AT&T Named “Best Wireless Service in the World” by Global Traveler
AT&T announced today that it has been recognized as having the “Best Wireless Service in the World” by the readers of Global Traveler magazine. The annual survey, now in its sixth year, gives Global Traveler readers the chance to voice their opinions on “the best” in many categories of business and luxury travel. Related Topics:... »
VoxOx Launches Personal Assistant Version 2
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — VoxOx by TelCentris, a free consumer service that unifies communication channels – voice, video, IM, text, social media, e-mail, fax and more – into a single user interface, has announced the launch of the second version of its personal assistant service, which enables consumers to …(405 words) ... »
8×8 launches HD voice for its Virtual Office product
8×8’s small business and enterprise VoIP product ‘Virtual Office’ now has HD voice. HD audio quality will be available for the company’s branded IP phone models 6753i, 6755i, and 6757i. HD calls double the regular VoIP sampling rate from 8K to 16K samples per second making calls clearer and more detailed. Current 8×8 customers will... »
CES: Ooma adds Pure Voice, HD and Google Voice
Ooma has announced new upgrades to their Ooma Telo service at CES this week. The new additions include Ooma Pure Voice, HD Voice, iPhone and iPod Touch calling, Bluetooth, Google Voice support and voicemail transcription. Ooma Pure Voice insures that call quality is maintained even over congested home networks where family members are also streaming... »