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: snapvoip.blogspot.com

N3SP and Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust have signed a landmark contract to deploy hosted Internet Protocol (IP) telephony services across the N3 network. Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust is one of the first NHS organisations to sign up to the new N3 Hosted Voice Service, following a major upgrade of the N3 Network enabling it to carry phone calls using voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technology.

The deal initially includes 280 centrally managed IP telephony handsets from network solutions company, Cisco, removing the need for on-site voice switches and equipment. By connecting to the N3 voice gateway, the Trust has access to free on-net calls and reduced tariff fixed mobile calls. Kam Ryatt, Associate Director of ICT from the Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT explains: “By converging our voice and data over the same single network we have delivered a simple, cost-effective and highly efficient way to manage our communications needs. The N3 Hosted Voice Service acts as the icing on the cake – we will no longer need to worry about the day-to-day management of our telephony infrastructure – freeing up valuable resources that can be reinvested back into front line services.”

News

Source: voipcentral.org

US-based VoIP service provider Vonage has now more than two million lines in service.

Commenting on the achievement, companys CEO Jeffery Citron says,

As we continue to grow our business, innovation will be a key Focus. To move the industry forward we must create tools that enable people to communicate when, where and how they choose, on their terms.

Obviously, activating over two million lines is a milestone for both Vonage and other industries. Will this achievement change the fate of Vonage, which is struggling in the VoIP market in wake of increasing competitors?

Read

Source: voipcentral.org

Loral Skynet and Go2Call joined to provide VoIP services to telecommunications and ISP/Broadband carriers, businesses and government organizations in Asia.

According to this agreement, Skynet has to combine its global Telstar satellite fleet and make network with SkyReach IP based service platform with unique technology of Go2Call.

They will offer fast implementation of carrier grade platforms without the investment of VoIP infrastructure to customers.

Via: Wireless Design

Source: voipcentral.org

The Verizon Wireless Company announced that its next upgraded mobile phone service to CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A will offer VoIP calling. Lucent Technologies will provide the new deployment of incremental hardware and software upgrades.

The EV-DO Rev.A will help in introducing new services like instant messaging and e enhanced push-to-talk features. The midst of a merger with Alcatel, Lucent, will install the initial EV-DO infrastructure for Verizon Wireless.

Yet the company did not declare the financial terms about this new installment.

Via: Information Week

Source: voipcentral.org

IP-based network operator CommPartners, introduced a new service for business customers wanting to migrate to VoIP, named IPTrunking. This division will migrate the VoIP services with existing IP PBX, legacy PBX and Key System equipment.

The company also announced two pricing plans for wholesale VoIP solutions for business customers. This pricing plan offers three different services sets for popular Enterprise packages.

The one service is available in an Enterprise IP Dialtone service along with Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Premium packages. It comes with strong telephony and producing enhancing features.

The second pricing option is IPSelect, which enables the sale of IP telephony services with a pricing model. It is a good alternative for larger business.

The IPTrunking and hosted VoIP services would be purchased by IPDirect service. It provides dedicated T-1 access. This service provides an SLA and streamlined service delivery along with customer support through a single provider.

The company is introducing this service initially in following cities:

1. New York
2. Atlanta
3. Boston
4. Los Angeles Basin
5. San Francisco Bay Area
6. Sacramento
7. Las Vegas
8. Phoenix

Via: IPCOMMUNICATIONS

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…..