Source: www.voip-news.com

VoIP in India could get a little more challenging to access. Thirty-nine off-shore providers are getting the cold shoulder from India’s Department of Telecom (DoT), which has ordered them blocked.

The country prohibits unlicensed providers from providing internet telephony services.

According to Business Line:

There are three types of calls which can be made using Internet telephony services. Subscribers will be allowed to make calls between one computer and another computer; between a computer and a mobile or a fixed line phone, and between mobile or fixed line phones. These calls can be made to any part of the world. The advantage for customers is that they can make long distance calls at local call charges.

However, in India, only unified access licence holders are permitted to offer all three types of Net telephony services. ISPs are allowed to offer only PC-to-PC calls and PC- to-mobile/fixed line that too on international calls.

Source: www.voip-news.com

The VoIP winners in the IPSPA awards have been announced. Read VoIP News of the UK for more.

Andy Abramson at VoIP Watch tells us about a service that lets you click and banner and just make a call — no download or fuss required.

Wow, bad form CNET. Read about Tom Keating experience with a new VoIP service and how CNET snatched and ran with it on TMCnet’s VoIP and Gadgets Blog.

Source: www.voip-news.com

Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc.has partnered with Tech Solutions, Inc. Geeks On Call will provide IT and VoIP support for Allstate insurance agents in the D.C. Metro area through Tech Solutions.

“The partnership between Geeks on Call and Tech Solutions will give our franchise partners another advantage over the competition by allowing them to provide another essential office component in a cost-driven business environment. By providing VoIP phone solutions in addition to our current services, our franchise partners will be able to offer a single company solution to all network, computer, service and communications needs for any business,” said Geeks On Call Business Manager Bob Beatty.

According to the companies:

Through the partnership, Geeks On Call’s certified computer professionals are able to provide on-site installation and support of hardware, ISP issues, Local Area Networks and PCs. Phones and firewalls will be configured by Tech Solutions, and off-site phone support will come from their network of trained technicians. The companies plan to expand the partnership to cover more of the country as the relationship develops.

“It is with great pleasure that we have partnered with a classy organization like Geeks on Call,” said Putiyon. “During our recent ribbon-cutting ceremony for our new location, we announced that Tech Solutions and Geeks on Call will jointly pursue the Allstate opportunity: Allstate agents have been given 16 months by their corporate office to convert to their own independent technology and find tech support elsewhere … . We have developed a high quality and efficient turnkey solution for Allstate agents … and take pride in helping [them] make this conversion a smooth one. Together with Geeks on Call, we will expand across the country and beyond the Allstate opportunity to offer solid, broad tech services to small, medium, and large business that will be unrivaled in this market.”

Source: www.voip-news.com

There is a great article on TimesOnline of the UK — it’s one of those things that takes all the guesswork out of choosing the right service.

See, after testing out different VoIP services, the TimesOnline named the best VoIP services for a variety of uses. What should you use if use Wi-Fi only? What about for an easy install? How about to use on an iPhone? Totally handy.

Check it out here.

Source: voipcentral.org

Vonage, acknowledged the second largest phone company in the United States, Verizon has filed a lawsuit charging that Vonage informed about its seven patents related to VoIP services.

Verizon made complaint in US District Court in Virginia. It claim that Vonage infringed on patents held by Verizon that given technology for completing phone calls between VoIP users and traditional phone services used by people, validating VoIP callers accounts, fraud protection, using Wi-Fi handsets with VoIP services and monitor VoIP caller usage.

The Vonage service uses the software, which turns into packets and then transmits them over broadband connections. Verizon is also using the same service named Voice Wing.
According to Vonage that this service is developed by own proprietary technology and third companies license it. Verizon made acknowledged about this complaint.
Due to this reason, Vonage Company has a loss of 30 percent in New York Stck market.

Verizon Company lawsuit sent shares of Vonage down $1.03, or 8.13 percent, to $8.22.

Via: NEWS.com

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Had to misspel in order to get trackback to ping.(did not like dating, asian!)
Tom Keating at VOIP Blog is asking why Dating services based here in USA, slow to take on services like VOIP and Video Over IP. He also reports about the addition of VOIP service by Vivox, the largest online dating service in Asia.
Here is a part of press release by Vivox,
Vivox, a pioneer in context-specific communications services, today announced that it will power WorldFriends Networks’ (WFN) new WorldFriends Phone service, which will allow WFN’s half-million global users to communicate with each other via live text, voice or video chat. In doing so, WFN becomes the industry’s first online dating service to provide its user community with an integrated Web-voice-video-Instant Messenger communications platform.

Owned and operated by Meta4 Group Limited, WFN is one of Asia’s largest online dating sites. WFN caters to an international constituency by operating in 20 different countries and in four different languages – English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. With more than 150 partner websites, WFN registers more than 1,000 new members every day making it the world’s premier provider of private label multi-lingual online personals.

Read the rest and more at VOIP BLOG…..