Wireless communications start-up xG Technology said Tuesday that the first commercial products based on its low-power xMax wireless technology will be available later this year.
Following a limited set of unspecified enterprise-grade products in August, a consumer VoIP handset will be launched by the end of 2006, the Florida-based company said.
“A single base station […]
Vonage Holdings Corp., the country’s largest Internet telephone service, on Friday more than doubled the amount it expects to raise in its initial public offering and reported record subscriber growth. Vonage, which in February said it expected to sell shares worth $250 million, said in regulatory filing Friday that it planned to sell 31.25 […]
Mountain View, CA-based DiVitas Networks launched yesterday to provide enterprises with roaming between WiFi and cellular using dual-mode phones. At first glance, this may seem to be a me-too approach. But the company claims that it is different because it puts the enterprise in control of the solution, at an attractive price-point starting at $250 […]
A new VoIP system’s outage at NASA’s Washington, D.C. headquarters reportedly disabled the phone system and all computer networking for several hours. According to an internal NASA memo making the rounds, a contracted technician inadvertently deleted the entire NASA Headquarters VoIP user database while adding 19 new VoIP user accounts to the system. It seems […]
EarthLink has selected Level 3 to support its latest VoIP initiative, EarthLink DSL and home phone service. According to the multi-year agreement, Level 3 will provide nationwide local voice service to EarthLink as part of a bundled voice and broadband Internet package. The new service includes features such as caller ID, voice mail and 3-way […]
Fueled by revenue from major customer AT&T, Avici Systems has announced record quarterly revenue of $21.4 million, a 100 percent increase over the same period last year. AT&T, which accounted for more than 75 percent of the quarter’s revenue, has deployed Avici’s TSR core router in 16 locations within its North American IP backbone network, […]
English-speaking minority groups are the leading adopters of broadband and IP communications such as VoIP because of the low prices for international calling, says a new study from the US Internet Industry Association (USIIA). The study found that more than 90 percent of English-speaking Asian-Americans and 80 percent of English-speaking Hispanics use IP and broadband […]
UPC Broadband, Liberty Global’s European broadband division, has reached the 1 millionth VoIP customer milestone within its European footprint. UPC Broadband has doubled the number of cable telephony customers over the last 15 months, driven mainly by VoIP. This reinforces the company’s strategy to provide VoIP as an integral part of triple play services to […]
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