A proposal would require that voice over Internet Protocol providers enable calls to emergency services. The U.K.’s telecommunications regulator, the Office of Communications, has since mandated that such access must be made available by September 2008.
Leading VoIP providers, such as Skype, disagree with such proposals, arguing that VoIP is a complement to, rather than a […]
Vonage’s first patent lawsuit loss came back in March and was something of a stunner. Verizon Communications had sued the VoIP juggernaut over alleged infringement on seven patents, and though only three of them were found to have been infringed upon, the die was cast for a year in which Vonage also was sued by […]
Net neutrality, as recently as the summer of 2007, appeared to be on the wane as a topic of concern for the telecom industry. Service providers weren’t taking it seriously, Net neutrality advocates couldn’t provide enough evidence for their concern, and Congress had moved on to different battles.
That all changed with Comcast’s traffic-delaying controversy. The […]
Demand for consumer VoIP in Canada is surging a survey of retailers says. The survey showed one of 12 Canadians is using a VoIP service and predicts the strong growth to continue as consumer costs fall for devices because of the strong Canadian dollar.
“The demand for VoIP has not only been overwhelming for service providers, […]
Britain has joined the U.S. to mandate the enabling of emergency calls from U.K.-based VoIP services. The new rules formulated by telco regulator Ofcom will come into effect Sept. 8 and follow a survey that showed 78 percent of VoIP users couldn’t access emergency numbers, or were unsure if they could.
The new rules will apply […]
Verizon Business continues to enhance its VoIP services and network capabilities with the needs of business customers in mind. Yesterday it announced expanded IP trunking that will allow large enterprise customers to deploy a wider range of IP PBXes and take advantage of shared trunking and other capabilities. The carrier also announced that Ethernet now […]
A regulator with Ireland’s Commission on Communications Regulation (CommReg) is expecting the Irish broadband market to top 800,000 subscribers by Christmas. About 100,000 of that total is anticipated to be made up of mobile broadband subscribers using high-speed downlink packet access technology, and the Comm Reg official also added that mobile broadband player may enter […]
Tapping a VoIP call is one thing, but take pity on the German police who are complaining they can’t decipher Skype calls. “The encryption with Skype telephone software … creates grave difficulties for us,” Joerg Ziercke, president of Germany’s Federal Police Office said at a press conference for security and law enforcement officials. “We can’t […]
PC Magazine has a telling survey on VoIP reliability and user issues in the US market. According to their latest “Trustworthy Tech” survey nearly one in three VoIP customers required tech support for their service. To be precise the industry average was 29 percent with their readers favorite, Cablevision’s Optimum, also having the lowest support […]
A new virtual phone known as Wizzl offers free voice and video calls over the internet to other Wizzl users, and calls to local and international phones and mobiles from only 2 cents per minute. The free beta software also gives direct access to live TV, internet radio stations and many games. The software currently […]
