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LATEST VOIP NEWS

Ex-Galleon employee, former Moody's analyst and others charged with allegedly dealing in insider information on 3Com, Avaya and Kronos; prosecutors promise more to come.

November 05, 2009

T-Mobile subscribers around the country found themselves unable to make phone calls or use data services Tuesday due to a major service outage.

November 03, 2009

Currently, Chorus is only available for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, but the company plans to release the app for other mobile devices.

November 03, 2009

Apple has a three-year deal with China Unicom to sell the iPhone in China, hoping to tap into China's 710 million mobile phone users.

November 02, 2009

The packages are available in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic markets and can save customers between $59 and $179 per year, depending on the bundle.

October 19, 2009

The available plans are 1,000 minutes and 1,000 texts for $30 a month, or unlimited minutes and texts for $45 a month, according to the Straight Talk Web site.

October 15, 2009

The FCC wants Google to explain how Google Voice calls are routed and whether calls to particular phone numbers are restricted and how those restrictions are implemented.

October 09, 2009

Datalink bought the networking expertise and the related seven-person team from solution provider Cross Telecom in order to get ready for storage-IP networking convergence and virtual data centers.

October 06, 2009

On the list: Windows Mobile, Palm webOS, Google Android, Symbian OS and Research In Motion's Blackberry smartphones.

October 05, 2009

AT&T letter to FCC says Google's actions violate FCC Internet principles and fly in the face of the online search company's backing of Net neutrality.

September 28, 2009

Most IT departments are already shy about Apple iPhones, so until Palm's WebOS is proven to be secure and integrates with some business-friendly apps, it's unlikely to gain a lot of ground in the commercial sector.

September 18, 2009

Our fastest-growing solution provider, BlueWater Communications, on how it achieved 3,605 percent growth in two years.

September 08, 2009

Apple and AT&T may be in the process of developing services specific to the telecommunications carrier in order to increase iPhone user satisfaction.

September 08, 2009

Digium made Skype for Asterisk generally available, tying Skype functionality into open-source Asterisk VoIP systems.

September 01, 2009

EBay is unloading 65 percent of its stake in Skype, the Internet voice, messaging and conferencing service, to a group of investors led by private equity firm Silver Lake.

September 01, 2009

Phone system sales in North America were up in the second quarter, a sign that the market may be headed for an upswing.

August 28, 2009

Communications Technology Inc. (CTI) found a new market opportunity when Westminster College called, looking for an affordable VoIP system with low maintenance costs.

August 26, 2009

Microsoft has partnered with VoIP services vendor JahJah to improve the quality of phone calls made with Office Communications Server 2007 through the use of SIP trunking.

August 25, 2009

Master agents, carriers woo VARs with promise of steady bill collection for telecom services such as broadband, voice and Web hosting.

August 21, 2009

Security vendor Barracuda hopes to tackle the open source VoIP market with its CudaTel spinoff.

August 06, 2009

Enterprise Networks Holdings, the joint venture between private equity firm Gores Group and Siemens AG, is looking to challenge Avaya in its bid to acquire Nortel's enterprise solutions business.

July 29, 2009

Avaya's bid for Nortel's enterprise division could create a new voice powerhouse while giving the channel support and stabilization.

July 20, 2009

Avaya has entered a $475 million bid to buy Nortel's enterprise solutions business as Nortel seeks to sell off all of its divisions.

July 20, 2009

The unified communications market is poised for growth in 2009 and Cisco is leading the pack, according to Infonetics Research.

July 17, 2009

Bringing aboard Nortel partners looking for an alternative IP telephony vendor is a key priority and central to Avaya's recruitment strategy.

July 07, 2009

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