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T-Mobile is getting in on the VoIP wave.

The company has launched Hotspot@Home, an unlimited calling plan where you use your existing broadband connection and a T-Mobile provided wireless router. The cost? $10 a month, if you have a qualified T-Mobile phone plan. Sorry folks with other wireless carriers - you aren’t eligible.

The wireless router will run you $50. And there is a $200 fee if you cancel the service before the contract is up. Other than that, it’s a bargain at $10 per month.

The service allows you to port your current phone number as well. And it includes the standard fare of voicemail, caller id, call waiting, call forwarding and 3-way calling.

To learn more, click here.

I wonder how long it will be before the other wireless biggies begin offering similar plans as add ons . . .

Source: www.voip-news.com

Callers in Connecticut have a new option for phone service: AT&T U-verse Voice, AT&T’s brand of VoIP service. The digital voice service launched Monday for Connecticut residents. Customers can now combine all of their communication needs including wireline voice, wireless voice, broadband and television in the company’s IP triple play options.

AT&T U-verse Voice is a little different in terms of managed IP-based service. Instead of being delivered over the internet, it’s delivered over AT&T’s fiber network, which according to the company results in better sound quality and reliability.

“Consumers want their services to work together to keep them connected to their world, and AT&T U-verse Voice is another way we’re helping consumers do that better than anyone else,” said Chad Townes, AT&T vice president and general manager for Connecticut. “Just like U-verse TV has changed the way people watch television, U-verse Voice will change the way people use their home phone.”
But then, how is U-verse VoIP? The voice and wireless voice mail boxes are accessible both online and on traditional phone lines. It also features click-to-call functionality and Locate Me, which allows calls to simultaneously go to up to four wireless or landline phones.

Prices start at $30 a month. To learn more, click here.

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A report on DSLReports brings to light a practice that has been long going on in the mobile industry over to VoIP.

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Tpad, the Global Phone Network, have slashed 30% off all worldwide call charges for the day beginning November 07th 2007 in celebration of the Diwali festival.

The popular VoIP provider,Tpad, is cutting the cost of calls to any country in the world which means that families that live countries apart can stay in touch for less.

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Zapp today announced the launch of a unique VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) type of service that will enable Zapp customers to place and receive unlimited calls anywhere in the world directly from their mobile or FixTel terminal.

Zapp Global Free service is partly using the Internet allowing calls between PC to Mobile and Mobile to PC, and mostly addresses Zapp customers who want to stay in contact with people living abroad.

With Global Free, a Zapp subscriber gets unlimited internet calls, while their friends, relatives and business partners living abroad can call a Zapp phone in Romania for free. The fact that the service is enabled on the mobile or FixTel, without any software upgrade, and the internet application can be downloaded for free at www.zappglobalfree.ro makes the service very user friendly.

"Contrary to other VoIP services, which allow calls between PCs or fixed phones, this is the very first VoIP service available on a mobile phone in a user friendly way and for a very moderate fee." said Piermario Di Pietro, CEO Zapp.

Due to its advanced technology when designing the Global Free product, Zapp was able to maintain useful features and value-added services (voice mail, call waiting and divert, caller ID, multiple call handling etc.), all of which are absolutely free. This ensures that Zapp Global Free feels much like any of the voice services that the company currently has on offer.

The service is launched at a very attractive price: for only USD 4,99/month Zapp customers can make or receive unlimited calls, while the service is completely free for the internet users calling the Zapp customer.

"With Zapp Global Free we have created a unique communication tool that will benefit many Zapp users and Romanians living abroad. Calling international or calling from abroad to Romania, especially on the mobile phones, will no longer be regarded as expensive." added Di Pietro.

Source: voipcentral.org

AT&T is giving tough competition to local phone companies. AT&T is planning to tie up its publicized Internet phone service, CallVantage with its mobile phone service for three months on trail basis and provide this service at 14 AT&T wireless stores in Portland, Ore, and central New Jersey.

The company will provide the discount package on store kiosks and direct mail and online ads. AT&T Wireless users can add the CallVantage service for $19.99 monthly. If this trial goes well, the company will provide this service outside Southern US local regions.

After acquiring BellSouth, AT&T gave the company sole control of Cingular Wireless, which allows it to easily target customers in its Cingular stores. AT&T has potential to roll out this service and take the place of Verizon in New Jersey and Qwest and Verizon in Portland.

AT&T’s VoIP service will allow customers to make inexpensive phone calls while traveling through internet. Currently AT&T and Verizon, both are offering this service in their regions.

Stephan Beckert, analyst of TeleGeography said

AT&T is worried that the VoIP service would cannibalize sales of its more profitable land-line phone service in the Midwest.

While analyst of Yankee Group, Berge Ayvazian, said

AT&T can shake up the market by leveraging its fabled brand while using the package to cut monthly turnover of both wireless and CallVantage subscribers.

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Via: USA Today

Source: voipcentral.org

An Australian based trailblazer, Internode, and a leading provider of VoIP application software, BroadSoft, Inc. has launched NodePhone2, Internode’s second generation VoIP service based on BroadSoft’s BroadWork VoIP application platform.

The NodePhone2 delivers high-quality and two-way broadband service to residential and business customers throughout Australia. NodePhone2 enables customers to receive high-quality calls from the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Additionally, it also allows customers to make outbound VoIP calls to the PSTN and other NodePhone customers. The second generation VoIP service, NodePhone2 offers comprehensive service, which includes features like voicemail, speed dial, caller ID, and a Web portal. Even users can access itemized billing information and call history. The service is available both as an individual services, which combines voice and broadband services. While Internode’s original outbound-only VoIP calling service, NodePhone1 would be remain available as a separate service. The company is planning to develop range of NodePhone services. The company is using Acme Packet, a BroadSoft Premier Access Solutions partner for session border controllers for NodePhone2.

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The cost of NodePhone2 is $10 per month for existing Internode customers with no included calls. The company is offering 18-cent unlimited calls to any standard fixed telephone service in Australia. If users are calling to Australian mobile users, then they have to pay 30 cents per minute.

According to Simon Hackett, Managing Director of Internode, BroadWorks gives clear path to add more VoIp services and its functionality enables company to offer featured rich services with high-quality and reliability at reasonable price.

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Via: IT Wire

Source: voipcentral.org

Taking a step forward AOL has decided to offer VoIP service with free phone numbers. So that it can dominate the VoIP market. As per the plan prepared by the AOL, AIM Phoneline will come with a free phone number which can receive incoming calls from any type of phone.

AOL has also decided to start an upgraded version of its AOL Phonline Unlimted service. AOL Phoneline charges $14.95 a month fee from customers for the outgoing calls. AOL will facilitate its customers to make unlimited calls to all local and long distance numbers. The customers can also make calls to 30 overseas countries.

Phoneline will carry all the required features of VoIP services provided that users must be logged onto AIM. It is the media through which users can access AOL email and can click to talk and hear voicemail.

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Source: voipcentral.org

BroadSoft has made an announcement that Telefonica de Espana has deployed VoIP services based on the BroadWorks VoIP application platform. The service which has been deployed over the Ericsson system is one of the first IMS deployments delivering VoIP services to the residential and SME markets. By using BroadWorks platform customer would be able to manage their own service preferences via the Web. The company is using value added BroadWorks applications based on an IMS ready platform to deliver primary line services to residential consumers and SMEs over any broadband connection. The Telefonica de Espana deployment is considered to be one of the worlds first IMS deployments.

via [VoIPMagazine]

Source: voipcentral.org

Comcast has a target of one million new customers which it wants to add to its customer base of its VoIP service. It had added 202,000 Comcast Digital Voice customers during 2005 which reflected the rollout of the service to 25 new markets which included Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Seattle. The company has taken great steps in building the foundation and this would significantly pace up their Comcast Digital Voice business during 2006. This would enable the company to fully market a bundled offering of voice, video and high speed internet products. The company expects to add 3.5 million new revenue generating units which would include one million Comcast Digital Voice customers during 2006 representing a 35% increase over the previous year.

via [Converge]

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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.

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