Articles

The industry across the board enjoyed many changes and advancements this past year making VOIP easier to use and far more enticing than ever to use.  Several breakthroughs, big and small, are simplifying this lower cost service and adding many features standard with traditional phone service.  Click on the headline to see the list of the top 25 VOIP innovations of the past year.

A recent study shows that teens are talking more to friends on a daily basis using the old-fashioned, hard wired telephone that any other form of communication.

Wireless phone subscriptions, up 18% this year to 3.3 billion, is due greatly in part to increased cell usage in emerging markets such as India and China, according to Informa Telecoms and Media.  India itself is expected to grow to 40% usage over the next couple of years. 

Posted on November 29, 2007, by The Digest Editor

Vinculum Communications, Inc. (Vincomm), a leading innovator of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) web-based telecom solutions that delivers reliable, cost-effective, integrated voice and data services to small and medium businesses, announces the delivery of Vintalk Global Mobile, their new Automatic Number Identification (ANI)-recognition technology.

As already expected by the industry, Verizon has confirmed it is dropping CDMA and WiMax and plans to use Long Term Evolution (LTE) as it�s 4G technology. The announcement follows recent news of successful initial trials of LTE by the LSTI.

Sirius Telecom announced today that it has significantly upgraded its switching facilities in Los Angeles, CA. by purchasing a substantial amount of ports from Veraz Networks (www.VerazNet.com). The upgrade will handle newly signed business from one of the largest Tier One carriers in the USA that wishes to connect with another Sirius Telecom Tier One PTT located overseas.

Copper thievery continues to become an increasing problem in the U.S., with outages now being reported on at least a weekly basis. It seems that the problem has now spread to the plumbing industry as well. 

AT&T introduces new international calling plan for its residential wireline customers. AT&T Worldwide Calling 3000 gives subscribers 3,000 minutes of international long distance calls to 164 countries for $20 a month. 

AT&T is still unsure of what caused a nationwide meltdown of its digital television service for several hours on Sunday. The outage affected an estimated 100,000 customers across 33 markets.