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 DC - Under the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), the FCC wants to make sure VoIP providers have access to the capabilities they need to provide both basic ...

FCC proposes rules for VOIP 911 calls - FCW.com

FCC wants Enhanced 911 service for VOIP calls - GCN.com

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By Doug Mohney On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published a notice for establishing rules on how E911 systems would handle calls from IP phones. Related articles New VoIP E911 Law gets Signed, Praised The ultimate E911 compliance test: Dial

FCC proposes rules for VOIP 911 calls - FCW.com

FCC wants Enhanced 911 service for VOIP calls - GCN.com

More: Telecom Paper

By Doug Mohney It actually adds more VOIP support to the OS so developers will need to do less work to build VOIP capable programs. This means that VOIP software which previously worked with Symbian 3.0 and 3.1 devices such as Gizmo will not run on these devices without being altered to account for this new VO...

By Doug Mohney Despite the information floating around on the web, it's against American's policy and Gogo's terms of service to use VoIP. Aircell has multiple protocols and practices in place to prevent the use of VoIP. Obviously, it is extremely difficult to stop every instance of VoIP but Aircell i...

By Pete Wylie Ory: I think in 10 years, maybe even 5 years, the bulk, if not all, of our communications are going to be IP. Whether you're in your home, car or office, it's all going to be digitized and sent by packet over IP. The problem then enters in, "How can I trust this line?"

By Pete Wylie Analysts have speculated that the move away from VoIP on new N-Series phones could be a result of carrier influence, with mobile long distance calling revenues getting shredded by VoIP bypass schemes.  For more: gigaom.com dishes on Nokia VoIP bailout

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No VoIP In New Nokia N-Series Devices? Is Nokia Turning Its Back ... - GigaOM

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By Pete Wylie Vyke seeks to offer this community VoIP services to reduce the cost of keeping up with loved ones. For instance, users of Vyke's FreeTxT application pay around 6 cents a text message, as opposed to 46 cents at standard cellular rates. Subscribers to Vyke's VoIP service get text messages for...

By Doug Mohney Nortel has purchased 3D positional voice technology company DiamondWare. It's the second Nortel acquisition in as many weeks. For more: Nortel buys DiamondWare announcement Analyst/Blogger Jon Arnold all over the Nortel/DiamondWare relationship

By Doug Mohney In June, Palringo introduced a push-to-talk-like service for PCs and smart phones. Add the iPhone to the list of devices it supports. For more: VoIP News listens to Palringo Related articles Cisco intros PTT VoIP VoIP mobile users to hit 250M by 2012

By Doug Mohney From a technical standpoint, Aircell could conceivably filter Skype and SIP applications down the road; while not trivial, Skype can be filtered with any number of solutions these days. Related articles Skype tested on jets Delta offers inflight WiFi

By Doug Mohney Apple has maintained an aloofness when it comes to the enterprise, doing just enough to get devices (desktops, laptops, servers, iPhones) in the door--and that's it. However, the ability of the 3G iPhone to act as a dual-mode phone (Both GIPS and SPIRIT DSP have released VoIP stacks) mean...

By Doug Mohney Customers currently using Micromethod technology include Tellme and GMarket, as well as "leading" video and wireless communications vendors. Micromethod products include an end-to-end SIP development platform, the SIPoint solution for SIP user collaboration, connectivity and...

By Doug Mohney DSLReports.com says AT&T is going to roll out a "BYOB" (Bring your own broadband) VoIP product in the fall or winter. The new BYOB VoIP will be a best-effort, lower priced service than the company's U-Verse Voice product; since U-Verse Voice runs as a prioritized service over AT&T...

By Doug Mohney The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is recommending unrestricted internet telephony for the country's Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Related articles SPOTLIGHT: VoIP in India 'On The Runway' Illegal or not, VoIP taking root in India

India watchdog calls for VOIP - Inquirer

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By Pete Wylie gt;VoIP for iPhone, but no voice calls?  gt;Bangladesh telco slapped with VoIP violations  gt;UnitSpeed host transfers VoIP Activities to GismoTel  gt;iTeknik Holding Corporation expands global presence with El-Wasel/NETelecoms Agreement

By Pete Wylie The Viola properties will be integrated into existing Fluke solutions to improve present services and enable new ones, such as VoIP pre-assessment capability, advanced active network performance assessment and VoIP infrastructures monitoring through call manager visibility.

By Doug Mohney Over at TMCnet, Jon Arnold discusses Ribbit, Jajah and Ifbyphone and how they fit into the broader VoIP service platform arena. His discussion of Jajah is timely given the company's latest-and-greatest deal with Intel using Remote Wake technology, but pondering Ifbyphone's future is...

By Pete Wylie That means that a larger enterprise that wants its employees to use WiFi phones in the office, for instance, to cut the cost of international cellular calls. What our customers want, and what we provide is the ability for an employee to get a call on his WiFi phone, walk out of the building to g...

By Pete Wylie Jajah, funded by Intel Capital, is supplying an initial VoIP software stack; it will be incorporated into certain PCs so users don't have to download software to make VoIP calls.  However, Intel points out that Remote Wake is open and there's a SDK that can be tapped into by other VoIP devel...

By Doug Mohney Infonetics' latest report, "VoIP Services and Subscribers," pegs the hosted VoIP/managed IP PBX services market at $24 billion in 2007. In 2006, the market grew by 66 percent. Growth in the "strong" double digits is expected through at least 2011, with hosted VoIP services continuing t...

By Doug Mohney Written in the open-source Ruby programming language, Adhearsion gets a shout out from O'Reilly as the Next Big Thing for developing VoIP apps on top of Digium's Asterisk platform.  If you need to write a Voice 2.0 app and haven't worked with VoIP before, you can either write your own app fro...

Examining the political landscape, it's good that the FCC is focusing on the issue of Intercarrier compensation.  It's also the focus via the topic of phantom traffic, a form of arbitrage based on the ambiguities in the rules about termination based on interconnection--not the call's o...

By Doug Mohney XO's Flex IP services continued to perform well, with second quarter sales exceeding all previous quarters. High bandwidth requirements comprise the majority of sales for Flex, according to the company. MPLS, launched one year ago, is already among XO's top five selling products.

By Doug Mohney Configuration is extremely flexible, allowing for options to set hours for phones to be accessible, how long the system should wait for you to answer and how long to wait to accept a call, plus others.  A PhoneFusion number doubles as a fax number, with the number detecting a fax tone and s...

By Pete Wylie Dovid Coplon, director of product management, said that GIPS real-time VoIP enables such useful features as live in-game chat and implied that social networking and instant messaging applications could be augmented with the new technology.

By Doug Mohney lt;p>Over the weekend, the one million registered users to Free World Dialup (FWD) were told that free is no longer free. After 12 years of free operations, users will be asked to pay $30 per year as of September 1, 2008. The announcement also named Daniel Beringer, as CEO of FWD.</p>...

By Doug Mohney Time Warner Cable (TWC) added 251,000 residential VoIP phone customers in the quarter. Voice revenues climbed 39 percent--$112 million for the quarter--for a total of nearly $400 million. TWC now has a total of 3.4 million digital phone subscribers and a growth rate likely to continue to g...

In-Stat: Global cable telephony subs near 37M mark - VoIP World

Report: Cable Telephony Subscriber Growth Remains Robust - VoIP Monitor

By Doug Mohney Financial results for last fiscal year, preferably for last reported quarter Significant customers At least one or two customer references Any other factors which should be considered Contact name, e-mail, and phone number of person submitting company for consideration

By Pete Wylie Verizon Business announced it is launching an IP-based platform that links radio, voice, data and wireless networks, enabling them to operate on a single network.  The Verizon Communications Interoperability Solution, is designed to resolve the deep-seeded impasse in emergency co...

By Doug Mohney VoSKY has been plugging together gizmos and hardware to make Skype more business-friendly for quite a while. The company's latest box (Linux 1U rack-mountable server) is a PBX-to-Skype gateway, using a T1 or E1 PRI interface to plug into a stock PBX. You can put up to 23 phone calls on a U.S. PRI....

By Doug Mohney Cablevision's Optimum Voice gets a Readers' Choice selecting with an 8.6 for ease of setup; users requiring technical support are also down from 18 percent to 14 percent, the lowest score of all the VoIP providers. Vonage also gets a Readers' Choice and higher marks for customer service im...

Finally, comes the biggest opportunity. Wireless is running to embrace the Internet with broadband services, but using primarily its existing framework. University of Minnesota's Dr. Andrew Odlysko points out that IP has won as the connecting glue because of its flexibility, adaptabi...