VoIP Monitor’s review of the U.S. consumer VoIP pricing reveals that prices for unlimited service continue to hold pretty steady since early last year, following a period of intense price cuts and market entry during 2004. The unlimited-service VoIP market remains segmented into several tiers, with cable operators such as Time Warner Cable and Cablevision […]
The Social Security Administration plans to replace its current telecommunications networks with VoIP as part of its strategic plans for the future evolution of its core network system. This will make it the largest federal agency to switch to the system. A notice released Friday via FedBizOpps states the program is part of […]
Time Warner has decided to invest £120 million in its British ISP, AOL U.K., in Local Loop Unbundling (LLU). Ofcom’s recent mandates on LLU and the Strategic Review of Telecommunications has provided AOL with an opportunity to bring large-scale competition into U.K.’s national telephone network and catch up with other EU countries. AOL’s unbundled services […]
Italian triple-play alternative operator, FASTWEB, announced fourth-quarter revenue of €287 million ($347.09 million), a 45 percent increase from a year ago, in line with analysts’ expectations. Continuing its network roll out in the fourth quarter, the company passed approximately 8.5 million homes, 40 percent of the Italian population. Adding a record of 70,000 in the […]
Frank Plastina succeeds Fred Lax as Tekelec’s president and CEO, starting February 6. He will also be a member of the board of directors. William Everett, the company’s CFO, has been the acting CEO since January 1, 2006. Plastina has held positions at Nortel Networks covering a wide range of solutions, in addition to previous […]
Mindspeed Technologies reported revenue of $33.2 million for the first quarter, up 7 percent from the previous quarter despite supply constraints and cutting cash consumption by more than 30 percent. Multiservice access VoIP solution revenue increased 32 percent sequentially and contributed 35 percent of total revenue. The company’s executives noted that less than 10 […]
Today, the telecom-services sector remains in turmoil. The transformation of telecom from a slow-changing industry dominated by government-regulated monopolists to one in which startups and struggling industry giants simultaneously compete for voice, data and mobile customers continues. There are still old empires left to topple and new ones set to emerge. Picking winners and losers […]
(Xinhua via NewsEdge) Malaysia’s VoIP business is expected to generate 1.5 billion ringgit ($398.9 million) in revenues by the end of 2010, almost doubling the figure expected this year, a senior Malaysian official said.
VoIP has been recognized as one of the eight services identified in Malaysia’s master scheme to drive the delivery of advanced […]
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