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Two underground coal mines in Kentucky will be upgrading to the new ActiveMine communication system, which links the underground workspace with the outside world via wireless Wi-Fi telephones and a special tracking system. Active Control Technology, the creator of ActiveMine, says that the first system will be installed in May, with a second system going in later this year. All together, there will be 53 ActiveMine nodes in the two underground areas.

The name of the coal mining company hasn’t been disclosed.

“We’re delighted that ActiveMine will become a key tool for our new customer in fulfilling its commitments to employee safety and business productivity,” said Steve Barrett, President and CEO, Active Control. “We look forward to helping customers to safeguard employees and get the most out of their mines.”

According to Active Control, the deployment of the systems is subject to MSHA approval for the wireless Wi-Fi phones, which is expected soon.

Source: www.voip-news.com

There is a new reverse telephone number lookup solution that is capable of searching wireless phone data, traditional landlines, VoIP and toll free telephone services. DOTS GeoPhone Plus was created by Service Objects, Inc. The company says that the service fills a need in the growing landscape that has fewer landlines and more alternative phone-types.

“In today’s challenging economic environment it is especially critical to watch every dollar spent,” says Geoffrey Grow, CEO of Service Objects. “With the release of DOTS GeoPhone Plus companies now have the ability to validate all of their leads, prospects, and customers, before wasting valuable resources on erroneous or fraudulent contact information. Furthermore, DOTS GeoPhone Plus clients only pay for transactions that end in matches, resulting in a pay-per-match pricing model that further protects today’s already stressed budgets.”

According to the company:

DOTS GeoPhone Plus is a hosted, programmable XML Web Service designed to provide the most comprehensive reverse lookup of virtually any telephone number available in the U.S. and Canada. The service gives customers the ability to find name and postal address information for U.S. and Canadian telephone numbers, and delivers contact validation in real-time. The DOTS GeoPhone Plus Web Service can easily be implemented behind the scenes of a Web form, in contact centers, or integrated with any CRM system to help customers instantly append contact data to their telephone records, and weed out fraudulent or incomplete telephone records.

When DOTS GeoPhone Plus is used to validate a telephone number, that phone number is instantly checked against Service Objects’ extensive data source of over 300 million records, returning an accurate and validated telephone number and contact information in about .5 seconds. Furthermore, Service Objects’ core telephone number data is updated daily with more than 4 million new records from over 2,000 telephone carriers, providing customers with unparalleled contact information.

Source: www.voip-news.com

USA Datanet provides VoIP, hosted services, internet and more for business and wholesale customers in New York. It has about 170 customers, which are mostly in the SMB sector, who rely on the company.

However, tough fiscal times and too much debt left the company in tough times. Last summer, it sold off its residential VoIP sector, but it was coming down to the wire for the business and wholesale division …

Fortunately, Warwick Valley Telephone has come to the rescue, agreeing to purchase the division and saving the businesses that rely on it from loss of service.

According to the Times Herald Record:

Warwick Valley Telephone Co. announced late Wednesday that in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York, WVT Communications’ bid to acquire the wholesale and hosted VoIP assets of USA Datanet has been accepted.

Source: www.voip-news.com

The X6v, a DSL gateway with a four-point switch, VoIP telephone adapter, and 802.11g/b wireless router with firewall security, is now shipping from Zoom Technologies. With user-friendly Quality of Service menus and the ability to easily dedicate the bandwidth to 4 Ethernet LAN ports and the wireless LAN channel, the product is intended to provide service providers with an efficient voice, data and video delivery system.

According to MSNBC:

The X6v has both an FXS (phone instrument) port and an FXO (phone network) port, and enables bi-directional bridging of calls between the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and Voice over IP. Connecting the FXO port to the phone network also provides the phones connected to the X6v with reliable emergency dialing, and backup phone service in the event of a power failure. Zoom’s distinctive Teleport(TM) feature is supported to provide inexpensive compliance with the emergency dialing (E911) regulations required by the Federal Communications Commission.

The router in the X6v incorporates Zoom’s distinctive “FastLane” feature, allowing users to easily establish Quality of Service for improved on-line gaming, video conferencing, and other applications. FastLane allows applications that require immediate transmission of data to work reliably even when they are competing with bandwidth-hungry applications, including popular peer-to-peer multimedia sharing applications. VoIP traffic to and from the integrated VoIP adapter is always prioritized to ensure high-quality voice communications.

Source: voip-tech.blogspot.com

From a few days are available also for Italy the SkypeIn telephone numbers, practically you can buy a telephone number to allow the reception of normal phone calls from landlines phone and cellphones to your Skype™. Who will call you will pay the fee of a normal phone call, the cost depends by the phone provider used.
The costs of SkypeIn number are 18 USD for 3 months and 60 USD for 12 months.
For more details and infos, refer to the Skype™ Shop.
The SkypeIn number however is included in the three Skype™ offers: Unlimited Country, Unlimited Europe, Unlimited World.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

In 1876, at the age of 29, Alexander Graham Bell invented his telephone. In 1877, he formed the Bell Telephone Company, and in the same year married Mabel Hubbard and embarked on a yearlong honeymoon in Europe.

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A man holds a mobile phone during a presentation of the hybrid Unik telephone which offers, from a single number, standard fixed and mobile connections as well as VoiP using either WiFi or GSM networks at a news conference in Paris September 25, 2006. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE)