This is by no means a brand new technology, but Ambient Corp. will be providing broadband Internet access [Charlotte Business Journal] over Duke Energy Corp’s power lines to Duke’s customers. Part of the plan is to provide both voice and data transmission, although the term VoIP never comes up in the article. So we haveContinue Reading
Subscribers of Orange in the UK and some European countries can now make both VoIP and mobile calls from a single dual-mode handset, using a service called the Unique phone. The phones operate on WLAN (Wireless LAN) at home and a mobile network otherwise. Calls from home to landline phones and other Orange mobiles areContinue Reading
IP & Democracy is reflecting on The Rupe’s (Rupert Murdoch) calling DirecTV a “turd bird”. This is a company that ol Rupe has holdings in. What ever a turd bird is, IP&D concludes, the US DBS industry is dying. This might explain why DirecTV recently announced VoIP over satellite offerings. Though I don’t think that’llContinue Reading
iBasis, a VoIP provider, is busy busy. They just announced that SunRocket has interconnected [Yahoo!] with their global VoIP network for international calls. They are part of a list of 40 companies, including Skype and Yahoo!, that are interconnected with iBasis. On the other hand, iBasis is also undergoing a voluntary internal review [Biz Journals]Continue Reading
Mobiboo is offering what is being called the first commercial Wi-Fi VoIP service in the UK, via a Wi-Fi service provider called the The Cloud. Subscribers will be able to use The Cloud’s hotspots as well as home Wi-Fi to make VoIP phone calls. The subscription deal includes an UT Starcomm F3000 clamshell VoIP phoneContinue Reading