The Federal Communications Commission has voted to change the Universal Service Fund, a decision that was widely expected and has been extensively discussed, the key elements having been widely discussed by commission personnel and industry participants. There still will be…
The essential tools used by a typical business person have undergone tremendous change in the past several decades. The mainframe computer gave way to the desktop computer, which evolved into the laptop and is now becoming supplanted by the tablet….
There might be as many as 640 million mobile VoIP clients in use by 2016, but most will be voice apps used in conjunction with other social media, gaming or applications, according to Juniper Research. Mobile VoIP clients downloaded to…
VoIP always has been a troublesome issue for established voice providers. On one hand, it has promised the ability to create and deliver new and richer services. On the other hand VoIP has had the potential to essentially cannibalize the…
Small office (one to four employees) spending on over-the-top IP telephony will increase by 83 percent from 2010 to 2015, In-Stat now forecasts. But there are trade-offs, In-Stat says. “Broadband IP telephony offers a number of advantages for small businesses…
If recent research by the Yankee Group is correct, 2010 might have been a turning point for hosted IP telephony adoption by enterprises. Where in 2009 about 49 percent of enterprise respondents said they were taking a “wait and see”…
Digital voice will be the fastest growing U.S. industry in the next five years, and that mostly means voice services provided by cable companies, not Skype or Google Voice, according to a new report from IBISWorld. Cable companies are expected…
While launching a new IP telephony services aimed at small business customers, Telstra also said it did not believe Voice over Internet Protocol could deliver sufficient reliability and quality to enable the telco to launch a VoIP service to consumers….
This might be a first: A communications company decides to charge mobile users separately for use of Skype, instant messaging and video entertainment, and regulators say those are good moves, as they could lead to more consumer choice. KPN has…
Accepted wisdom dictates that the eventual ubiquity of ultra high-speed (100Mbps+) broadband access will herald a new era in innovation with communications services that were previously impossible. But if you didn’t build it, would innovation still come? For this edition…
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