World VoIP Database

When Apple rolled out its first WiFi-enabled iPod touch earlier this month, it had a marked lack of phone functionality. This would only make sense to Apple, which started selling iPhones not three months ago for around $600 a pop, and more recently, $400. It didn’t make as much sense to the user community, however, […]

Packet8 has confirmed that it’s picking up 12,000 VoIP subscribers from an unnamed operation that intends to wind down in the coming months. Packet8, located in Santa Clara, Calif., said it struck an exclusive agreement to migrate the “soon-to-be-orphaned subscribers” to its 8×8 VoIP service.

Packet8 was one of the company’s that scooped up SunRocket subscribers […]

A Truphone VoIP client for the iPhone is lighting up blogs. Blognation first reported and tested the client Wednesday, saying it required a fairly complicated bypass.

Meanwhile, Truphone, a London mobile VoIP app maker announced an iPhone demo at DEMOfall07 in San Diego, Calif., yesterday. Truphone said it would make a call between two Apple iPhones […]

Vonage won a reprieve from one court yesterday after losing in a jury trail the day before. On Tuesday, the Holmdel, N.J. VoIP provider was ordered by a jury to pay Sprint Nextel $69.5 million in damages for patent infringement. On Wednesday, federal judges in Washington, D.C., vacated a decision ordering Vonage to pay $58 […]

The SIP Forum is working on a program to establish greater interoperability between VoIP service providers and IP PBX customers. The SIPconnect Compliance Program sets requirements for support various aspects of the SIPconnect peering standard.

Cbeyond and McLeodUSA are the first two carriers to support the program, but with IP PBX deployment growing fast and VoIP […]

Verizon Communications said it wants to test 100 Gbps optical transport gear, apparently seeing demand for that kind of long-haul transport bandwidth fairly far ahead of other telcos. The company also acknowledged that it’s nearing a decision on its vendor for a so-called “God box” multi-service edge device, despite launching the RFP only this summer.

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Deutsche Telekom has scooped up the fourth biggest carrier in the Netherlands, France Telecom’s Orange, for $1.89 billion. DT’s Netherland’s subsidiary, T-Mobile Netherlands, is the third largest carrier in that country. Together the two carriers will have 4.8 million Dutch customers. CEO Rene Obermann said the deal would create synergies of $1.4 billion. Half the […]

According to a report from France’s Challenges, the anticipated exclusive iPhone deal between Apple and Orange in France is stalled because Orange has balked at Apple’s revenue sharing requests. The report claims that Apple is asking for more than a third of the monthly fees Orange’s iPhone users will pay. The stalled deal may cause […]