Category: VoIP
VoIP Video a Reality with Dialcom’s Spontania Video4Skype
VoIP is the new VoIP! Spontania is Video4Skype! “What’s that Aunty?” you ask. “Have you had too many add-shots in your Starbucks today?” Nope! Video over IP is the new “VoIP”! Where VoIP has always stood for Voice over IP (Internet protocol), you can now combine your VoIP with Video…
Louisiana’s First Rural City-Wide Wi-Fi Network, Blankets Ruston and Grambling, Louisiana with High-Speed Wireless Internet Services
RUSTON and GRAMBLING, La., May 19 /PRNewswire/ — Heralding in a new era in multi-city Wi-Fi Internet access, Ruston and Grambling Louisiana, announced the operations of the nation’s first rural multi-city Wi-Fi broadband network. Other cities have announced intent to build similar networks or have announced partial deployments; in contrast,…
Pulver.com Blasts FCC E911 Order (News Release)
Leading Industry Thought Leader Urges FCC to Ensure America’s Role as the World Leader in Innovation, Communications and the Internet MELVILLE, New York, May 19 /PRNewswire/ — The following quotes may be attributed to Jeff Pulver, CEO of pulver.com in response to the FCC’s adoption of an order imposing E911…
EarthLink Statement on FCC VoIP 911 Ruling (News Release)
ATLANTA, May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The following statement is in response to today’s vote by the Federal Communications Commission requiring Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers to support E-911 services, and is attributable to Dave Baker, EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), vice president of law and public policy. “EarthLink and other VoIP…
e911 – Is the FCC About to Require 911 Services for VoIP?
In the next installment of “As the VoIP Turns”, sources are saying that the FCC is about to announce a requirement that all VoIP services offer basic 911, or “e911” services out of the box by a date certain. According to LightReading.com, “Sources who met with the FCC in recent…
Vonage(R) Rolls Out Free Calling to Puerto Rico
Vonage(R) Rolls Out Free Calling to Puerto Rico EDISON, N.J., May 16 /PRNewswire/ — Vonage, the leading provider of broadband phone service, today announced it is expanding its calling packages to include all calls to Puerto Rico. All Vonage customers, regardless of calling plan, can now reach their friends and…
VoIP SPIT: Even Plain Old Telephone Users Need to Worry About It
[Courtesy of Guest Author Craig Hughes] Security guru Bruce Schneier writes on SPIT today in his security blog. A mighty neat trick to write on a liquid you say? Well, different semantics for “on” and “SPIT” than you might expect, unless you’re a regular reader of AS. SPIT of course…
Connecticut Sues Vonage, Jumps on the ”Bad Vonage, No 911” Bandwagon
As many of Aunty’s readers know, the State of Texas sued Vonage recently for, they claimed, failing to provide adequate instructions for signing up for 911 emergency telephone services. Hogwash! Now the State of Connecticut is pulling the same thing, suing Vonage claiming that “Vonage’s lack of disclosure was a…
SBC VoIP Gets 911 Service Because SBC Owns the 911 Service
CNet news is reporting that SBC’s VoIP service, which is being rolled out at present time, will be one of the first, if not the first, to come tapped into a coherent 911 service. This is because SBC, of which the SBC VoIP service is a subsidiary, also owns said…
AOL Offers VoIP Service – VoIP Available to America Online Customers in 40 Cities
America Online (AOL) has announced that its new VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol telephony) service is online and available to AOL customers in 40 cities. Called the “AOL Internet Phone Service”, the new VoIP offering is available to AOL customers in Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Washington DC, New York City, and…
The ISPs Are Revolting! More ISPs Blocking Non-Native VoIP
Despite the FCC ruling that ISPs may not block VoIP, some ISPs are continuing to block VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services which do not originate with them. According to reports, ClearWire, a Washington state ISP, is now blocking Vonage, basing the action on their terms of service which allow…
VOIP 911: Weakness in VoIP 911 System Leads to Lawsuit Against Vonage
The State of Texas has sued VoIP provider Vonage for weaknesses in the VOIP 911 system. Note that the issue is not with Vonage itself, but with how 911 calls are handled (or not) by VoIP systems generally. The Texas Attorney General has sued Vonage claiming that they use deceptive…
How to Take Down the VoIP Competition if You are a VoIP Provider
If you’ve been following the VoIP wars at all, you know that the latest craze is for ISPs and other providers to block the VoIP data of their competitors. They may do this because they themselves are offering VoIP services, or plan to, or because they own or have a…
VoIP Services Still Being Blocked by Competing ISPs?
VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) provider Vonage says that despite the FCC giving the smackdown to an ISP for blocking 3rd party VoIP services, Vonage’s VoIP calls are being blocked again, by both a cable operator, and a wireless broadband operator, although Vonage declined to name names in public. In…
VOIP + Net Smart Devices = Voipullar Phones
Voipullar? What is that? Well, take VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and combine it with a handheld Internet-able device such as a PDA or a smart phone, and what do you get? What some people are now referring to as Voipullar calling. In fact many believe that Voipullar (or VOIPullar,…
