World VoIP Database

A new survey aims to reveal who is subscribing to VoIP services, and the results are a little less than surprising. TeleGeography Research asked 900 VoIP households in the United States a few questions. They discovered that the typical subscriber is married, works full-time, has a household income of $50,000 per year, and makes a […]

A federal judge has sided with the FCC, ruling that VoIP carriers had to comply with a law that lets the federal government tap digital phones. The law, known as CALEA, was passed just as VoIP and mobile telephony were becoming popular and there was some question about whether they were covered. CALEA specifically exempts […]

The stock market may have hammered Vonage’s IPO, but that doesn’t mean the Street is bearish on VoIP. One analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein and Company says that cable carrier Comcast will outperform the market, largely because it is aggressively pushing its “triple play” of video, data and VoIP. The news is similarly good for […]

As mushrooms follow the spring rain, security companies are lining up to exploit last week’s arrest of two hackers who allegedly broke into VoIP carriers’ networks and are accused of stealing millions of dollars worth of bandwidth. Some security consultants are worried about VoIP viruses. Others are worried about phishing schemes. Still others point to […]

Skype is trying out ways to enhance security so enterprise customers will like it better. Although Skype already uses username security for logging in and secures calls themselves with PKI, the company is apparently thinking about using certificates to authenticate users. The efficient use of certificates and rings of trust would also allow businesses–a key […]

Here’s a neat trivia question: Which nation has the most Skype users per capita? Answer: Israel, whose telecom regulators are finally going to establish some rules for broadband-based telephony. It seems that Israel, despite being a tech hotbed, has woeful connectivity; the fastest broadband line available is only 2.5 mbps. In addition, the legacy telco, […]

Consumers and businesses are about to pay more for their VoIP service. Or maybe they won’t. It’s hard to tell, which is pretty much par for the course when the FCC gets involved. You heard a couple of weeks ago that the FCC was thinking about including VoIP carriers in the Universal Service Fund, which […]

The new VoIP carrier efonica has an idea that’s going to drive NANPA and the ITU nuts: an “internet area code.” The bright idea (and they’ve applied for a patent) is to associate a Windows-based softphone with an already-existing phone number. To reach an efonica customer, another customer would merely have to dial that phone […]