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LEXINGTON, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SinglePipe Communications, Inc. (SinglePipe), a facilities-based wholesale communications provider, announced today that it has received an additional $2.5 million in equity funding. The financing was led by Louisville, Kentucky-based Chrysalis Ventures, a leading source of equity capital for growth companies in the Midwest and South. London, Kentucky-based Meritus Ventures, L.P., a Rural Business Investment Company (RBIC) which invests in expansion-stage companies in central and southern Appalachia, also participated as a co-investor.

SinglePipe provides residential and business VoIP services through wholesale and agent channels to clients across the United States with points of presence throughout the Southeast. The company delivers private-branded turnkey wholesale VoIP solutions to a large provider universe that includes Cable Operators, Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC’s), Internet Service Providers (ISP’s), Wireless ISP’s, VoIP Providers, and Value Added Resellers (VAR’s). SinglePipe offers turnkey solutions for residential VoIP, Hosted PBX, and SIP Trunking/Line Replacement over its own highly reliable network and in conjunction with partners nationwide. Its services include origination/termination, turnkey VoIP with industry-leading support, training and marketing resources.

In January 2007, the company raised a $4.0 million Series A equity investment, also led by Chrysalis Ventures, to fund its acquisition of ALEC, a Lexington, Kentucky-based CLEC and provide working capital necessary to aggressively market the company’s products. As a result of this existing private network, the company is now able to provide wholesale local telephone service at a lower cost compared to traditional voice options, as well as to offer the rapid and cost-effective introduction of new features and services at no additional cost.

According to Matthew J. Phillips, SinglePipe CEO, “We are delighted to partner with Chrysalis Ventures and Meritus Ventures for this additional round of equity financing which will help us continue to grow our business. In addition to capital, both investors provide strong leadership and expertise to support our aggressive entry into the rapidly expanding VoIP market.”

“SinglePipe is off to a great start and we are pleased to participate in this follow-on round of growth capital,” said Wright Steenrod, principal of Chrysalis Ventures and member of the SinglePipe board of directors. “Meritus Ventures is an experienced partner and we are excited they have chosen to invest in the SingePipe team.”

“We are very pleased to be co-investing with Chrysalis Ventures in SinglePipe Communications in this follow-on round of growth capital,” said L. Ray Moncrief, Meritus Ventures Fund Manager. “This investment highlights the fact that high-tech businesses flourish in rural areas and that rural businesses can attract high-quality management teams.”

For more information, www.singlepipecom.com.

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iLocus is concluding "The 10 That Established VoIP", theme with a write up about Spectralink. The others that previously described are: VocalTec, Level 3, ITXC, Sonus Networks, 3GPP, Softbank BB, Skype, Cisco, NexTone.
I have followed the whole series and have been an eye opening. I have worked with at least three of the ten and never saw the others in the same light until iLocus wrote the series and revealed some gems of information. If you are interest in VoIP (of course you are, otherwise yoou will not be reading this!) read the iLocus series.
iLocus studied the VoIP market from 1995 onwards and selected certain developments within the industry that helped establish it and related those developments with 10 selected companies. The writeup further discusses in detail the contributions made by each of those companies.

Source: voipcentral.org

A leading provider of Internet phone service ViaTalk has unveiled the VT White Private Label Reseller at the ISPCON, an Internet industry trade show and conference. The company has launched the VT White especially for Internet service providers (ISP), web hosting companies and other technology service providers, so that they can grow in VoIP market.

ViaTalk’s VT White offers Internet phone service with 24 hour support team based in United states. The company offers VoIP Internet phone service to businesses and residential customers. The company will offer branded webpage, which would be customizable and seamlessly supports to customer through Live Chat and a toll free support line. ViaTalk will provide all supporting functions from satisfying governmental regulations, to staffing 24/7/365 live customer service.

VT White is full of enhanced features with enhanced 911 service. Now partner companies can align themselves with one of the most reputable names in VoIP telephony by using VT White Label brand.

Brendan Brader CEO of ViaTalk said,

VT White allows companies to enter the rapidly growing VoIP market without the expensive start-up costs. There are minimal costs and a huge upside that will lead to additional recurring revenue streams.

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Via: VoIP Enterprise

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According to another report by Telegeography, US VOIP subscriptions have gained 18% to 8.2 Million users in the third quarter of 2006. But it also reports that the rate of growth has slowed down from the previous years.
VoIP revenues for the second quarter were up about two and a half times – $732 million across the United States, compared with a year-ago level of $298 million.
TeleGeography predicted the market would grow by roughly 1.5 million subscribers in the fourth quarter to end the year with 9.7 million, or about 8.7 percent of the nation’s households. Revenues are expected to approach $2.6 billion for the year, or more than 2.5 times the 2005 total of just over $1 billion.

Current Standings on VOIP Market;

Vonage Holdings Corp. 1.95 million subscribers.
Time Warner Inc.’s cable TV 1.64 million.
Comcast Corp. 1.35 million.
Cablevision Systems Corp. 1.10 million.

Certainly good news for VOIP suppliers, be it phones, services or minutes. VOIP is gaining the space, slowly but surely.

Links;
Telegeography

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Will services like Skype, basically computer based enhanced IM clients, eliminate the need for international carriers? According to data presented in the newly released TeleGeography Report and Database, Not anytime soon.

During 2005 we all spent 272 Billion minutes on telephone calls. this figure changed in 2006, it became 313 Billion. This is about 15%.
So how much of this is Skype? in 2005 it had 2.8% of the telecom pie. In 2006 it increased, to 4.4% of the 2006 pie. It is a hefty increase and may be Ebay is in a path to recover what it invested on Skype. Hurray for Skype.
So hoe did the Other VOIP providers do? Not so bad, they are slowly eating into the switched circuit service providers. The Other VOIP service providers increased from 16.6% in 2005 to 19.8% in 2006.
Both these VOIP services, reduced Switched circuit carriers, form 80.6% in 2005 to 75.8% in 2006.
So the telecom giants are still in control it seems. But IP based telephony will be all over us as time goes by.
‘Someday, all calls will be routed over the Internet,’ commented Stephan Beckert, Research Director at TeleGeography. ‘But the numbers suggest that traditional international carriers aren’t going to disappear anytime soon.’

Updated continually since 1989, TeleGeography Report and Database has become the benchmark report for the international carrier industry. To learn more about the enhanced 2007 version, available now, please follow the links provided.

Links;
Telegeography Report and Database
Telegeography main site

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Dutch VoIP market reaches 1.4 million subscribers at the end of Q3, 2006.
The Dutch VoIP market is continuing its strong growth of the past quarters, reaching 1.4 million VoIP subscribers at 30 September 2006, according to the latest research by Telecompaper. The on going competition on the residential fixed telephony market has caused the market penetration of incumbent KPN to drop below 70 percent to 68.8 percent. Despite the company’s successful sales of its VoIP product InternetPlusBellen (Internet plus calling) with 115,000 net additions in the three month period, the incumbent lost more traditional lines to its own VoIP service and to competitors VoIP services. Especially the cable sector made good progress selling nearly 124,000 VoIP subscriptions in the third quarter.
Read and get more info at telecompaper.

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Dutch VoIP market reaches 1.4 million subscribers at the end of Q3, 2006.
The Dutch VoIP market is continuing its strong growth of the past quarters, reaching 1.4 million VoIP subscribers at 30 September 2006, according to the latest research by Telecompaper. The on going competition on the residential fixed telephony market has caused the market penetration of incumbent KPN to drop below 70 percent to 68.8 percent. Despite the company’s successful sales of its VoIP product InternetPlusBellen (Internet plus calling) with 115,000 net additions in the three month period, the incumbent lost more traditional lines to its own VoIP service and to competitors VoIP services. Especially the cable sector made good progress selling nearly 124,000 VoIP subscriptions in the third quarter.
Read and get more info at telecompaper.

Update – link added
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Telecompaper article

Source: voipcentral.org

According to ZDNet Research, the residential VoIP market is soaring. It is on its way to become a $4.1billion business in 2010. The growth in this segment would attract companies to manufacture VoIP products for the household consumers.

The ZDNet Research says residential VoIP product revenues would grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31.1 percent to touch $4.1 billion even more from $1.1 billion in 2005.

There is also a surge in the residential VoIP subscribers. As per the report, the subscriber for Residential VoIP is poised to cross 151.2 million mark by 2010 from 15.8million in 2005.

While, the worldwide VoIP equipment revenue will rise to $11.9 billion in 2010 at a CAGR of 24.7 percent up from $3.95 billion in 2005.

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ZDNet Research reports that the residential market will reach 11.9 Billion by 2010. This figure is supplemented by the number of residential VoIP subscribers worldwide is expected to increase to 151.2 mln by 2010, rising at a CAGR, Compound Annual Growth Rate of 57.1% from 15.8 mln in 2005.
These are healthy figures for the VOIP providers as well as VOIP equipment makers. I think that these figure will also reflect healthy benefits to the VOIP users, be it corporate or Residential.
According to the article, "The residential segment is the second-largest market for VoIP gear. Equipment in this segment includes residential gateways and IP phones. Equipment makers are vying for a piece of the residential VoIP market, hoping to capture a slice of this growth. Telecom service providers also are aggressively targeting this segment in an attempt to maintain their share of the $430 bln annual voice market and to offer so-called triple-play services, i.e. suites of multimedia offerings consisting of video, audio communications and broadband Internet access."

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ZDNet Research article

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ZDNet Research reports that the residential market will reach 11.9 Billion by 2010. This figure is supplemented by the number of residential VoIP subscribers worldwide is expected to increase to 151.2 mln by 2010, rising at a CAGR, Compound Annual Growth Rate of 57.1% from 15.8 mln in 2005.
These are healthy figures for the VOIP providers as well as VOIP equipment makers. I think that these figure will also reflect healthy benefits to the VOIP users, be it corporate or Residential.
According to the article, "The residential segment is the second-largest market for VoIP gear. Equipment in this segment includes residential gateways and IP phones. Equipment makers are vying for a piece of the residential VoIP market, hoping to capture a slice of this growth. Telecom service providers also are aggressively targeting this segment in an attempt to maintain their share of the $430 bln annual voice market and to offer so-called triple-play services, i.e. suites of multimedia offerings consisting of video, audio communications and broadband Internet access."

Links;
ZDNet Research article

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ZDNet Research reports that the residential market will reach 11.9 Billion by 2010. This figure is supplemented by the number of residential VoIP subscribers worldwide is expected to increase to 151.2 mln by 2010, rising at a CAGR, Compound Annual Growth Rate of 57.1% from 15.8 mln in 2005.
These are healthy figures for the VOIP providers as well as VOIP equipment makers. I think that these figure will also reflect healthy benefits to the VOIP users, be it corporate or Residential.
According to the article, "The residential segment is the second-largest market for VoIP gear. Equipment in this segment includes residential gateways and IP phones. Equipment makers are vying for a piece of the residential VoIP market, hoping to capture a slice of this growth. Telecom service providers also are aggressively targeting this segment in an attempt to maintain their share of the $430 bln annual voice market and to offer so-called triple-play services, i.e. suites of multimedia offerings consisting of video, audio communications and broadband Internet access."

Links;
ZDNet Research article

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ZDNet Research reports that the residential market will reach 11.9 Billion by 2010. This figure is supplemented by the number of residential VoIP subscribers worldwide is expected to increase to 151.2 mln by 2010, rising at a CAGR, Compound Annual Growth Rate of 57.1% from 15.8 mln in 2005.
These are healthy figures for the VOIP providers as well as VOIP equipment makers. I think that these figure will also reflect healthy benefits to the VOIP users, be it corporate or Residential.
According to the article, "The residential segment is the second-largest market for VoIP gear. Equipment in this segment includes residential gateways and IP phones. Equipment makers are vying for a piece of the residential VoIP market, hoping to capture a slice of this growth. Telecom service providers also are aggressively targeting this segment in an attempt to maintain their share of the $430 bln annual voice market and to offer so-called triple-play services, i.e. suites of multimedia offerings consisting of video, audio communications and broadband Internet access."

Links;
ZDNet Research article