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 ...

No deal is imminent, but the blogosphere is all abuzz this morning about the possibility that Cisco may try to buy Skype before Skype’s pending IPO. The rumored valuation is somewhere around $5 billion for the global IP ...

Google yesterday confirmed speculation that it would offer web-based calling from its Gmail electronic mail offering. In a blog post  the company said the new service would be available to all Gmail users “over the next few days.” Calls to the US ...

YMax, the parent company of magicJack has been a little busy in 2010. They started the year off at the Consumer Electronics Show touting a forthcoming magicJack femtocell, to much fanfare. Then ...

Skype was spun off from Ebay last year and they are now filing for a $100 million IPO. Depending on how you define a telecom service provider, Skype may well be the largest on the planet, with 560 million registered ...

Facebook users can now phone their "friends' with just a click, or touch, thanks to Vonage, which launched a Facebook app that enables them to do so for free yesterday. The Vonage Mobile App for Facebook can be downloaded for free ...

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. ...

YMAX Corp., the parent company behind the successful VoIP device magicJack has announced a merger with VoIP pioneer VocalTec. The new combined company, which will trade on the NASDAQ under the symbol CALL (NASDAQ: CALL), was formed ...

What goes around, they say, comes around. There is no doubt that in the consumer market, Skype has been one of the most disruptive technologies in modern telecommunications.  Essentially, by making use of existing consumer telecom broadband connections, Skype enables a high quality telephone like experience at no charge ...

Mobile VoIP minutes will increase significantly by 2015, increasing from 15 billion this year to 470.6 billion, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Growth is expected across all regions, but in developed markets particularly given the "increasing ...