World VoIP Database

TeleBlend has good news for Sunrocket orphans. The company, which is a joint effort of Unified Communications and USA Telephone, has acquired limited strategic assets of SunRocket and plans to offer service that will enable orphans to use their existing SunRocket hardware. In addition, they can make unlimited domestic calls for $12.95 per month for […]

TechWorld reports that Microsoft’s Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 is being released to manufacturing, which means the OCS will be available in six to eight weeks. Microsoft says OCS’ software-based approach to voice will enable companies to cut their telephony expenses in half. OCS 2007 enables users to launch phone calls from their Office 2007 […]

As part of a co-branding, joint effort with BabbleTone, VoIP.com has launched its first retail sales effort in South Florida. A custom-built kiosk opens up a new channel for the VoIP provider and adds the human element to the sales equation. In addition to touting VoIP’s many benefits, the kiosk also enables shoppers to make […]

VoIP providers in the U.K. have until 2008 to offer 999 emergency access. U.K. regulator Ofcom says VoIP looks and feels so much like traditional phones that people are confused about their ability to use 999. Ofcom research reveals that 78 percent of VoIP users who cannot use their service to call 999 either thought […]

DENVER, July 27 — A federal judge on Friday sentenced Joseph P. Nacchio, the former chief executive of Qwest Communications International, to six years in prison in what prosecutors called the largest insider-trading case in history. The judge in the case, Edward W. Nottingham, also ordered Mr. Nacchio to pay a fine of $19 million […]

Watchdog group Ofcom says voice-over-Internet providers should provide 999 emergency service, just as traditional telecoms do. Research by the communications watchdog has revealed that 78 per cent of VoIP users who cannot use their service to call 999 either thought they could, or did not know whether they could. Voice over IP phone […]

Anybody who’s ever used an online dating service knows that people often use photos that were taken of them about a decade ago, and sometimes photos of someone else, to represent themselves to potential suitors. Those days are numbered in New Zealand where CHATdate is among the first of the country’s online dating services […]

CommScope Inc. and IPcelerate have announced the results of work the two companies have been doing together to develop a new security/public safety application for the SYSTIMAX iPatch Real-Time Infrastructure Management System. The Cisco technology partners integrated their systems to create an emergency notification system that determines the physical location of a VoIP phone during […]