Featured VoIP News

• Service Provider VoIP Market Down 8% in 3Q08 As Large Telcos Scale Back (Cellular-News.com)
  Large RBOCs and ILECs are scaling back on VoIP equipment purchases, helping bring down the worldwide service provider VoIP market 8% sequentially to $816 million in 3Q08, says market research firm Infonetics Research in a new report.
  
  
• Foreclosures, consumer cutbacks freeze carrier spending on VoIP (Network World)
  Home foreclosures and a generally bad economy are driving down demand for wired phone lines, which will freeze much carrier spending on VoIP infrastructure until 2011, according to a new Infonetics report.
  
  
• DeFi will serve up VoIP over WiFi on iPhone (Ars Technica)
  VoIP over WiFi with a flat-rate monthly charge for both calls and the network?what's the catch? Provider DeFi says they can deliver it all: now to Nokia S60 phones, and soon to iPhones. Read More...
  
  
• 10 VoIP applications for your mobile phone (e-Consultancy)
  Making calls on your mobile phone can get quite expensive, especially when calling internationally. Fortunately, there are now a number of great mobile VoIP services that make international calling from mobile phones dirt cheap.
  
  
• China VoIP & Digital Telecom Inc. Releases Third Quarter Financial Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
  China VoIP & Digital Telecom Inc. released its 2008 third quarter financial results yesterday:
  
  
• Net Quintum VoIP Gateways Achieve Certification for Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging in Microsoft's Unified ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
  Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. today announced that Quintum, now part of NET, has successfully completed Microsoft certification for Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging for both the VX and Tenor lines of VoIP switches and gateways, confirming their ability to easily integrate a customer's existing voice infrastructure with Exchange Unified Messaging.
  
  
• Regional Service Providers Continue to Select Nortel for Anywhere, Anytime VoIP Communication (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
  If customers think access to the latest voice and multimedia applications are only available in large, highly populated cities, think again. With a Carrier VoIP solution from Nortel(1)(NYSE: NT), designed specifically for regional service providers, customers in some of the most remote places in North America can enjoy the same VoIP services deployed in large metropolitan areas.
  
  
• DeFi Global Access VoIP for iPhone coming (MacNN)
  DeFi Mobile has announced the expansion of its Global Access VoIP service to include the iPhone platform. For a monthly subscription fee, users will have access to unlimited global calling, roaming, and long distance. The calls require a WiFi connection, but the company claims that its global partnerships extend the available access points to include private and commercial connections. Other ...
  
  
• Sigma, BroadSoft Team For VoIP, Join Each Other?s Partner Group (CommunicationsDirect)
  Sigma Systems is partnering with VoIP software developer BroadSoft Inc. to provide provisioning and fulfillment solutions to telcos and cablecos for hosted business VoIP services. Under the partnership, BroadSoft has joined Sigma?s Solution Partner program, and Sigma has joined BroadSoft?s Enabling Technology...
  
  
• BroadSoft Wins Prestigious Best Technological Innovation Award at Telecoms World Middle East 2008 (Broadcast Newsroom)
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates and GAITHERSBURG, Md. , Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- BroadSoft, Inc., the worldwide leader in VoIP application software, today announced that its BroadWorks(R) application platform has been awarded the Best Technological Innovation Award at the Telecoms World Middle East event in Dubai, United Arab Emirates .