World VoIP Database

Telstra and the Australian government seem to jab at each other on a frequent basis in a way that makes disputes between major U.S. telcos and the Federal Communications Commission seem positively genteel.

Most recently, the government is looking to block a plan by Telstra to shut off its traditional CDMA wireless network in January 2008. […]

Comcast chief operating officer Steve Burke said the cable TV giant sees Verizon as more of a competitive threat than AT&T in the TV market. He noted that Verizon has taken some of its cable TV customers, and that AT&T may be a future threat, though he also said the customers lost to the telco […]

Charter Communications, the No. 3 cable operator in the United States, tapped VeriSign to help it VoIP. The deal gives Charter more direct access to the public switched telecom network, allowing Charter VoIP calls to move more easily through channels outside of the cable operators own network.

Charter, based in St. Louis, Mo., has around 5.7 […]

Cisco is the latest enterprise WLAN company that isn’t waiting for the 802.11n standard to be completed. The dominant WiFi player for the enterprise announced several integrated enterprise products based on the Draft 802.11n standard, which is designed to boost WiFi’s throughput and range. Previously, Cisco said 802.11n wasn’t ready for the enterprise, but now […]

General Communications, Inc. (GCI), based in Anchorage, Alaska, announced a plan to invest $30 million to build a fiber network in Southeast Alaska. The project followed an earlier announcement by Alaska Communications Systems (ACS) that’s going to running a lot of fiber, too.

Alaska residents will get a bevy of new bandwidth options and will be […]

Jaxtr has raised $10.3 million in a second funding round, a company spokesperson confirmed. August Capital, also of Menlo Park, led the round, and Skype backers Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mangrove Capital contributed. The stock portion of the backing is $8.8 million; the debt is $1.5 million.

The Menlo Park, Calif., provider of digital voice capabilities […]

Comcast wants to phase out a legacy digital voice service in several Denver suburbs, The Denver Business Journal reports. The Philadelphia cable giant wants to shut down the old phone service it inherited in the 2002 AT&T Broadband acquisition. The system infrastructure previously belonged to TCI, and was in notoriously shoddy condition when AT&T grabbed […]

According to reports coming out of India, Google will launch a mobile phone in the country within the next two weeks. A report from Rediff claims that Google is in talks with Indian carriers Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam for exclusive carriage deals for the device. The report goes on to […]