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Comcast Business VoiceEdge Adds Award-Winning One-Click Audio Conferencing App
Mar 12, 2018 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — Comcast Business today introduced Comcast Business VoiceEdge™ Conferencing, an award-winning enhancement to its cloud-based phone service, Comcast Business VoiceEdge, which simplifies the way conference calls are initiated, joined and managed. The…
Volvo Brings In-Vehicle UC, First to Incorporate Skype for Business in Cars
Volvo Cars announced last week it will put Skype for Business in cars — specifically the Volvo 90 Series line. The announcement marks the first instance of an automaker announcing commercial introduction of an in-car…
Enterprise Unified Communications Survey: One Third Doubt Infrastructure Can Handle Traffic
More than one-third of the senior U.S. IT decision-makers in an enterprise unified communications survey don’t believe their organizations’ infrastructure is up to the task of managing anticipated volumes of network traffic. The survey was…
Business UC Survey Finds Remote User Challenges
Attempts by businesses to extend Unified Communications (UC) platforms to incorporate remote and mobile employees are suffering from a lack of insight, according to a new business UC survey from Dell. A lack of visibility…
With New Skype for Business, Microsoft Set to Compete With Hosted PBX, UC
News from Microsoft illustrates a changing competitive environment. In this environment, a software company like Microsoft can more easily compete with a telecom carrier for hosted PBX or unified communications (UC) services. And that’s exactly…
With the fring Alliance, Genband Hopes to Empower Carriers to Play in OTT World
Over-the-Top (OTT) services like Skype, Viber, WhatsApp and others have long ridden communications service providers’ (CSPs) networks to reach end consumers with interactive communications applications. In so doing, they have cut into CSPs’ profits by…
Report: International Skype Traffic Soars As Phone Volumes Stagnate
International telephone traffic from fixed line and mobile phones is growing, but international Skype call traffic is soaring, according to the latest from TeleGeography. While international fixed-line and mobile phone call traffic rose an estimated…
3D Calling? Skype is on the Case
The technology behind 3D has seen its share of fits and starts. 3DTV is struggling with low sales and some high profile 3D networks like ESPN 3D shutting down. But 3D printing seems to be…
Report: Mobile VoIP Users Up 550%, But Annual ARPU is $7.13
The number of over-the-top (OTT) mobile VoIP subscribers more than quintupled worldwide in 2012, rising 550% to more than 640 million, according to Infonetics Research. Service operators aren’t making much money, however: average revenue per…
Skype Registers 2 Billion Minutes of Use Daily
The FCC recently released a report on Universal Service which also included statistics on minutes of use (MOUs) for switched access across the PSTN. The data revealed that MOUs on the PSTN are down considerably…
Alternative Providers Pushing Telcos Out of International Voice Calling
International telephone traffic rose 5% in 2012, to 490 billion minutes, while international traffic from Internet voice and messaging services such as Skype continued “to increase at a stunning pace,” putting telcos at risk of…
Hey Rural Telcos – It’s Time to Call it Quits on POTS
Like all sectors within the telecom industry, the rural telecom industry is in the midst of significant transition. Both the technology and the business models it enables are changing, and rapidly. Telecom carriers of all…