World VoIP Database

WASHINGTON–An estimated 4 million subscribers to Internet phone services like Vonage could see new fees on their bills under a plan approved Wednesday by federal regulators.

The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously at its monthly meeting here to require all voice over Internet Protocol services that connect to the public-switched telephone network–as opposed to using […]

A new report from Australia says that ISPs who want to expand their business ought to look at the enterprise VoIP market. The report, published by IDC, shows that Australian businesses are especially interested in self-implemented VoIP–and that brand loyalty isn’t an issue. The businesses are interested in something they can afford that works, no […]

Some of the smartest techies in the world say that letting the federal government listen in on VoIP calls would seriously compromise security for everyone. A federal judge ruled recently that VoIP carriers are required to follow the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act–also known as CALEA. But a new report, written by Vinton Cerf […]

Growth in digital telephony is accelerating in the Netherlands. At the end of the first quarter of 2006, the number of consumer VoIP subscriptions reached 853,000, up 206,000 from the end of 2005, according to research from Telecompaper. The study shows that incumbent KPN’s share of the consumer fixed market has been in steady decline, […]

PIKA Technologies has announced server software that will let enterprises integrate Skpye into their existing telecom infrastructure. Altough still in field trials, the technology promises to TDM, VoIP and Skype traffic all at once. PIKA Connect for Skype, along with a desktop client, allows the server to control desktop Skype and manage the audio.

BEA, an infrastructure software company, is shipping version 2.2 of its WebLogic SIP Server. The company says the software, a component of the WebLogic Communications Platform, is the first carrier-grade platform to converge IMS, Java EE, Service Oriented Architecture and Event Driven Architecture. The server also supports “key” 3GPP standards for IMS application servers. Putting […]

Mobile carriers don’t like VoIP on their networks, but Qualcomm says it has tested VoIP over a new revision of the EV-DO data networking and that it works just fine. The tests over CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. A networks involved 62 mobile calls in a single channel in a single sector. Qualcomm said the test showed […]

The FCC finished auctioning off two chunks of 800MHz spectrum last week. One of them went to a division of JetBlue, which isn’t saying what it’ll do with it. The other went to AirCell, which says it’s planning to stick WiFi on airplanes–and where WiFi goes, VoIP will probably follow. Frontier Airlines is interested, but […]