World VoIP Database

Earthlink and Covad are working together on Line Poweed VoIP. Customers can use their existing phones and plug them into phone jacks as they would with any regular telephone service. The technology, called “line-powered voice,” puts all the intelligence and equipment for offering VoIP service in Covad’s central office, where all the gear to […]

BT is to launch another broadband service in May: video over broadband. BT videophone handsets that will plug directly into the broadband connection and operate independently of a computer are rumored to be in the range of £180 at a cost of between 10p and 15p a minute for video images in addition to low-cost […]

EarthLink with Covad Communications will offer VoIP service in Dallas, Seattle and the San Francisco-San Jose area starting this week by bundling the new service with DSL and not cable. The “line-powered” service does not require consumers to add any new hardware. As EarthLink does not own its own network like the telcos and cablecos, […]

Wireless/IP convergence that can offer seamless hand-off of a dual-mode phone call from a WiFi network to a cellular network may take off with specialized WiFi access points (APs) designed to support VoIP. These APs provide VoIP’s cheaper services to cellphone users within range of their WiFi transmitters. They may also offer better-than-cellular indoor coverage. […]

Warner Music Group Corporation has announced that it reached an agreement to offer ringtones to Skype’s Internet telephone service.

The maker of the popular Skype VoIP application has done a deal with Warner Music to license all of the songs the record label releases as ringtones. Skype will sell the 30-second ringtones to customers for […]

BT Group admitted on Friday that its Broadband Voice service crashed this week, leaving thousands of customers without their Internet telephony connections. Precise details of the outage weren’t disclosed, but BT did explain that an engineer patched the platform that underpins Broadband Voice on Tuesday evening after many users suffered problems. “Some calls […]

Net2Phone has secured its 31st patent issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent titled “System and Method for Managing a Flow of Network Status Messages at a Network Operations Console” was applied for in June 2000 and was issued after six years on December 27, 2005. Andy Abramson lets a secret out […]

In less than a week, Vonage equipped more than 200 calling centers in more than 35 new counties with emergency 911 calling capabilities, bringing the total number of calling centers with emergency 911 service to more than 2,200. In just over a month, Vonage has turned up E911 service in more than 235 counties and […]