Source: voipcentral.org

Is there any serious internal problem in Freshtel? The question rises following the sudden change in the companys top position in less than a quarter.

According to VoIPnews, John Butkiewicz has stepped down from the position of CEO of Freshtel. The Freshtel Board has accepted his resignation and appointed a new chief.

John Butkiewicz was appointed as CEO in January this year. That means he remained in the top most position for just three months. If a CEO resigns in less than a year, it seems there is some problems in the companys management level. However, Freshtel has not disclosed the reasons of his resignation.

Peter Warner will be appointed as the new CEO of Freshtel while Michael Carew to act as the Global Business Director of the company.

Source: voipcentral.org

Australia-based MyNetFone, a leading broadband service provider has reached out an agreement with Linksys, under which the Cisco subsidiary Linksys will provide its VoIP equipment to MyNetFone.

The deal with Linksys will enable MyNetFone to create a strong a base in the SOHO (Small Office and Home Office) and SME VoIP markets. The company expects its customers base will hit 10,000 in the next few months by selling equipment worth of $250,000 and $1 million per year in additional revenue.

Announcing the deal, the company explains,

The equipment the two partners have in mind provides two lines of VoIP telephone and fax service. The MNFSPA2100 equipment has not just been configured, but it also has been customized particularly for the MyNetFone services. The implication of this is that reliability is high and there would be encryption based security.

MyNetFone ensures customers to make and receive phone calls over any type of broadband Internet connection. The calls between MyNetFone customers are free. However, the company charges very low rates for the calls to the public fixed and mobile networks.

Source: voipcentral.org

A joint Atug and Engin survey and a report on Fixed Voice Services Market that was released last week revealed that a number of Australian companies have dumped fixed lines in favour of VoIP and mobile. If the recent reports are to be believed, there is a clear indication that the trend to VoIP and moving away from fixed-line phones is now gathering steam.

Market Clarity, another research firm made a similar forecast that there would be a steady and continued decline of fixed phone lines as broadband adoption corrects an inflated market for second-line services.

Shara Evans, CEO, Market Clarity, said,

Businesses started buying IP PABXs or call managers several years ago and began implementing telephony over their local area network - getting QOS in place and testing out the deployment. We are just starting to get into that full swing now - and so we’re seeing businesses that no longer need as many basic access lines. Instead they are putting some of that traffic across their own data network, and in most cases that is not the public Internet, but a carrier-grade network.

This is not surprising as it is happening in many parts of the world. But is PSTN is really going away? Hmm.. I am not too convinced that it is, at least its death is not imminent. There would be declinations in fixed lines, but it cannot be complete replaced, with VoIP and all.

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