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Traditional voice call providers aren’t the only ones with lobbyists working in their interest to help Congress see the light. Avaya, a company that provides solutions for IP Telephony, Unified Communications, Contact Centers and Communications-Enabled Business Processes, now has their own lobbyists.

The company has retained The Madison Group to represent them before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and the House Committee on Energy & Commerce and Homeland Security.

Among the topics that The Madison Group will focus on are telecommunications issues like Voice over Internet Protocol and emergency communications.

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p-news.comVoiceCon San Francisco 2008 will be held at the Moscone North Convention Center from Nov. 10-13. The conference will also feature an exhibition of vendors with new and exciting products. …

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BroadSoft, a Gaithersburg, Md.,-based VoIP application platform maker, has cut about a dozen positions, according to a source familiar with the company. The cuts are said to have taken place …

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AT&T reported a slight boost in profits this morning, and the carrier has quite a bit to boast about, especially on the wireless side. iPhone activations reached 2.4 million during the third …

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p-news.comLos Angeles County has signed a $233 million, five-year contract with AT&T to provide the county’s voice and data services.
AT&T will manage and maintain the IP network and …

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Today on the Verizon Policy blog Link Hoewing writes about the results of an academic research paper that looks at the effectiveness of “shaming” corporations into behaving properly. The …

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Microsoft today unveiled its next-generation Communications Server product that will allow users to replace their existing phone systems with Microsoft’s software. It’s about time Redmond …

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As a messaging center, the AT&T HomeManager does well with traditional voice messages and falls way short
if you are trying to use it as an email device.
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Ooma, a Palo Alto, Calif,-based company that has created a VoIP phone hardware and services platform has raised another $16 million in third round of funding from it’s existing and new investors. …

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In this era of flat rate plans from mobile companies, does anyone need Skype?

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