New players are entering the communications market everyday with niche network centric services such as Skype and iTunes which depend upon flexible IP platforms. While it is true that carriers and network providers face greater competition that ever before, they also have a greater and more diverse array of potential customers than ever before. Read More
Qwest and Microsoft to Deliver VoIP Services via the Desktop to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses:
At Fall VON 2005, Qwest Communications International Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced that they are working together to provide small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers with a converged communications ... Read
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Sprint and Avaya Link for VoIP and Wireless Solutions for Businesses: Sprint and Avaya announced a joint agreement for development and delivery of hosted Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony wireline and wireless services for the North American marketplace. The agreement allows the companies to jointly develop, market and support new and differentiated VoIP ... Read More
By Xavier Casajoana, CEO & Co-Founder, VozTelecom
The wholesale market model is emerging as an effective way for carriers to get into the hosted VoIP services market quickly, until such time as they can deliver facilities based capabilities. Many different models for this are emerging but it seems clear that participation will include many different types and sizes of carriers. For example, Tier 2 carriers might provide wholesale services to Tier 3 carriers. Some Tier 3 carriers might provide services to ISPs, and new wholesale entrants will shake competition. Read More
Verizon Wireless To Purchase Valley Telecommunications' Cellular Assets In Arizona: The purchase includes Valley Telecommunications' spectrum license, and network and operations assets in Graham, Greenlee and Cochise Counties. The license covers a population of 160,000 people and isRead More
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Cingular Wireless To Invest More Than $71 Million in Arkansas To Enhance Service Quality and Expand Coverage: The network improvements will enable Cingular customers in Arkansas to experience the highest level of voice service quality and offer some of the most advanced data services to more customers in more places. Read
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By Andrey G. Semin-Vadov, Senior VP, Sales & Marketing, Transtelekom
Buying capacity has stopped being a mere fact of commodity purchase – customers want a service, and carriers look pretty much at providers who have the best customer service, operations centers, SLAs. This trend really means the end of the global carrier epoch in the former sense of the word – they finally do need help and support to service customers at their sites. Read
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IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS):
A Path Towards Fixed Mobile Convergence: A number of VoIP industry leaders, including British Telecom and Sprint, are ensuring that support for next-generation wireless services is a key consideration in their next-generation enhanced service architectures.
In the case of service providers like Sprint who operate both fixed... Read
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Skype and Boingo Merge Internet Telephony VoIP and Global Wi-Fi Access: Skype Users Can Add 18,000 Boingo Hot Spots Via New “Skype Zones – Powered by Boingo” Service. Unlimited Wi-Fi access for Skype Internet telephony calls is available for $7.95 per month. Skype Zones is currently a beta service, and terms and availability may change. Skype users simply log... Read More
Wireless Telecoms' Global Carriers Edition - Telecommunication for Long Distance Carrier & Carriers Carrier. WMOL, London Office, 145 -157 St John Street,London,
United Kingdom EC1V 4PY
With vozIP.com service providers can offer to its end users, advanced & competitive IP Telephony applications, through VozTelecom's white-label outsourced platform, with short time-to-market, low investment and zero
technology risk. Read More
Alcatel partners with @rteria to experiment with WiMAX technology in France. Alcatel supplied, installed and integrated WiMAX equipment at the bottom of high-voltage pylons owned by RTE. The data will be transported on the RTE's fiber-optic network, built by Alcatel, for the management and the safety of the electric system. Read More
Loral Skynet and iDirect Technologies announced a joint demonstration of a new wireless broadband connectivity solution at CommunicAsia 2005 in Singapore. The new solution carries broadband traffic over Loral Skynet's SkyReach SM IP-based satellite communications service, to iDirect remote equipment, connecting end-users to the Internet via WiFi protocol. Read More
MetaSolv
Software, the world's leading provider of
customer relationship, order management,
and service fulfillment solutions,
is a platinum sponsor of Telemanagement World
on May 16. Read
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Amdocs
demonstrates momentum since acquisition of
XACCT Technologies;
Operators around the world, including Neuf Telecom and Partner
Communications Company Deploy Amdocs for converged solutions. Read
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With the new Media Control
Point (MCP Ô ) from ORGA Systems, mobile
communications companies can now carry out
all the transactions required for real-time
billing of IP services quickly and reliably. Read
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Zi Corporation unveiled at Communicasia a revolutionary new service discovery engine, Qix™, that provides users with a quick and easy method for accessing and discovering a phone's full set of features, applications and services without having to remember where and how to find them via the phone's built-in menu structure! Read More
