Telecompetitor

While Skype’s 560 million+ member number is quite impressive, its 8.1 million paying subscribers puts that total number in perspective. Those 8.1 million provide Skype $96 in ARPU per year. To put that in perspective, Verizon’s latest monthly ARPU for its consumer markets is $80.76, which equates to 10X what Skype ...

Yesterday, Google announced their intention to end Google Wave development as a standalone website.  This came as a shock to some Google Wave devotees still euphoric from Google announcing general availability of the product at their ...

TDS is expanding their enterprise focused product portfolio with the launch of managedUC, an IP powered unified communications suite. The solution is based on Cisco’s Unified Communications 500 system. TDS will target businesses with 100 employees or less, both within their traditional footprint, as well as ...

MANKATO, Minn., Jul 22, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HickoryTech Corporation (Nasdaq: HTCO) today announced it has been awarded a five-year contract to provide SingleLink Unified Communications throughout Mankato Area Public Schools. ...

MANKATO, Minn., Jun 30, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Enventis, a subsidiary of HickoryTech (Nasdaq: HTCO), has achieved both the Master Unified Communications Specialization from Cisco(R). This designation recognizes Enventis as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support highly sophisticated Cisco unified communications solutions in the United States. "We are very proud to achieve this prestigious ...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – June 23, 2010 – As companies continue to push for more efficient and effective interaction among employees, customers and partners, Verizon Business is now offering new IP capabilities that make the adoption of unified communications and collaboration simpler and more cost-effective than ever before. The new capabilities, unveiled Wednesday (June 23) feature: IP Audio Conferencing for conducting instant ...

In its latest telecom move, Google is buying IP communications software developer Global IP Solutions (GIPS) for $68 million. GIPS develops software for both IP voice and video communications. Their software powers voice, video, and ...

The hosted business model, where a service provider manages much of the back office and operations of a telecom product, relieving the customer of the hassle and much of the equipment expense is becoming quite popular. Qwest is the latest provider to launch such a product - ...

Google Voice is a voice application that provides a variety of features including call routing/forwarding, unified voicemail, and simultaneous ring, among others. Google Voice has 1.4 million subscribers and growing. Google is now turning their attention to the small and medium business (SMB) and enterprise ...

TelCentris, the San Diego-based developer of VoxOx, a proprietary Unified Communications System,  announced the launching of an all-digital, nationwide competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC).  TelCentris has received approval from local regulators in five states, which gives it the right to compete with ILECs in ...