The Carphone Warehouse has been blown away by the response to its “free broadband forever” promotion with demand for the bundled product exceeding its own forecasts.
TalkTalk - Carphone’s retail phone business - only launched its bundled offer of line rental, calls and broadband for £21 a month in April. Since then, some 340,000 punters have […]
Online VoIP provider, Net2Phone Inc., has initiated legal action against Skype and its parent company, eBay Inc., claiming that the Skype software infringes on one of its point-to-point IP communication patents. The lawsuit was filed at a U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, seeking a permanent injunction as well as unspecified financial damages.
Skype, […]
What Congress gives, the FCC may take away. Hard on the heels of news that the U.S. Congress will finally repeal a 19th-century telephone excise tax, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is floating the idea that VoIP carriers should be contributing to the Universal Service Fund. The fund, which paid out $7.3 billion last year, is […]
GlobeTel Communications is working with iLigue to bring cheap VoIP calling between Brazil and the U.S. Brazilians who want to keep in touch with people in the U.S. will be able to set up U.S. phone numbers that will ring in Brazil–getting around high Brazilian phone tariffs. The service is first available in the northeastern […]
Skype’s voice over Internet Protocol software that allows people to talk for free over the Internet will ship on Dell’s new XPS notebooks.
The Skype software will be offered as part of Dell’s audio/video communications package on the new XPS M1210 and M2010 laptops, Skype announced Wednesday. The communications package also includes an integrated Webcam […]
Internet telephony provider Vonage has laid to rest speculation that it would buy back shares of its stock that its customers bought as part of its initial public offering.
Shares in the company have dropped almost 30 percent from its $17 initial price tag since the stock debuted May 24. The company had reserved some […]
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