Tag archive: voice over internet protocol

Nearly a fifth of all adults in the United States have made a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) call on the Internet, according to a new survey by Pew Research. Among Internet users (a majority of the population), that number is 24 percent and on any given day 5 percent of Internet users go online to make phone calls. The number is a big increase from the 6 percent of U.S. adults who made Internet phone calls in 2007. Among them, only 2… Read More

T-Mobile is hoping to expand its customer base exponentially with a new application that lets Facebook users place free calls to each other. The app, dubbed Bobsled, once installed, will allow anyone with a Facebook account place a call to a friend on Facebook chat. Bobsled also lets users post a private or public voice message to a person's wall for later retrieval. “Bobsled by T-Mobile takes our communications services… Read More

“The law extends a ban on Internet taxes that expired on November 1, 2003. The original version of the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act, passed by the House of Representatives in September 2003, would have permanently extended a five-year congressional moratorium on taxes unique to the Internet, including taxes on access and bandwidth. But the bill was held up in the Senate over concerns that it would allow… Read More

AT&T today announced that Best Buy will be among the first national retailers to offer AT&T's residential Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone service, AT&T CallVantage Service, in its 628 stores nationwide and online at http://www.bestbuy.com/. AT&T CallVantage Service will be available in Best Buy stores nationwide beginning this fall.   Under terms of the agreement, Best Buy and AT&T will… Read More

“By a vote of 5-0, the FCC said “voice over Internet protocol,” or VoIP, providers should be subject to the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which ensures that law enforcers will be able to keep up with changing communications technologies. VoIP service is likely to replace much traditional phone service over the coming years, the commission said. “ This really should come as no surprise, its… Read More

“Will May 19, 2004, be a date that lives in infamy for proponents of VoIP? Two ominous developments took place on that day. The New York Public Service Commission declared Vonage to be a regulated telephone company. Meanwhile, several key companies pulled out of the inter-carrier compensation forum (ICF) that is attempting to negotiate a replacement for the outmoded access-charge regime. That brought the effort to the brink of collapse.… Read More

Digital Phone Service, as Time Warner Cable is calling their voice over Internet-protocol offering, is now available for current subscribers for a three-month trial rate of $19.95 per month. The cost of the service becomes $39.95 for subscribers of both cable and high-speed Internet, or $44.95 for subscribers of either cable or Internet after the three-month trial is over. Time Warner Cable's Digital Phone Service offers the… Read More

By pushing ahead with regulation now, states are facing long battles in court with VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol)service providers that believe existing laws don't apply to them; and later with the Federal Communications Commission, which is expected in the next few months to leave states with very little, if any, regulatory power over Net-based phone calls. Though small VoIP start-ups like Vonage are moving forward unfazed… Read More

In a statement announcing its decision, the agency sought to soften the blow, saying that it nevertheless hoped to apply “only minimal regulations to ensure that it does not interfere with the rapid, widespread deployment of new technologies.” New York is the latest state to weigh in on regulation of so-called voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, a hot-button policy issue that has some local officials worried… Read More

From AT&T's press release: AT&T Corp. today announced that it has taken its first step in re-entering the wireless market by reaching an agreement with Sprint that will allow AT&T to sell AT&T-branded wireless service to its over 30 million business and consumer customers.  As a result of the five-year agreement, AT&T expects to significantly expand the wireless services it is currently testing in select… Read More

In an announcement stating it was lowering the cost of it's highest-priced residential plan, Vonage also said that its subscriber base has exceeded 155,000 users. The company had announced it reached the 100,000 subscriber mark in February of 2004. Pricing for the company's ”Premium Unlimited” plan is now $29.99, a $5 reduction in the price of the plan. Edison, N.J. based Vonage is the nation's leading… Read More

Wi-Fi phones employ a technology known as Voice over Internet Protocol, which translates conversations into packets of data that are sent over the Internet, instead of the old, circuit-switched phone system, for part of their journey. The technology slashes the traditional notion of “long distance”

The 93-to-3 vote renews a ban that had expired last November. But senators decided to let states that started taxing Internet access before the ban was imposed six years ago keep imposing those taxes. State and local governments will also be free to tax the new Internet phone technology known as Voice Over Internet Protocol. It allows consumers to make phone calls over the Internet. Read the full story at CNN.com.

IDT's WiFi phone service will allow users to bypass local phone companies and make domestic and international phone calls via a wireless connection to the internet. IDT plans to initially roll outthe WiFi service in select areas of the Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey. This initial deployment will provide research to help IDT develop the new service as it is rolled out in other areas.The new phone service will utilize… Read More

In silly news of the day, we have learned that the FBI has made a proposal to the FCC that would require all Internet Providers to rewire their current system in order to make wiretapping accessible to the FBI. Experts claim that if the new proposal were to pass, MSN Messenger, Xbox Live and any voice over Internet protocol would be accessible for wiretapping. The 85-page document that was submitted to the FCC would require all… Read More