Better late than never.The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has finally taken a very tough stand on the unlicensed VoIP service providers who offer their voice services through the cyber cafes in the country.
The TRI has banned the VoIP services offered by many cyber cafes and asserted that the incumbent Omantel has the legal right to provide IP telephony services in the country.
The violation of TRI
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Pulvermedia has released the list of 100 companies in the 2007 Pulver 100. This is a complete list figuring the privately-held growth companies that shape the current VoIP industry.
Lets find out the names of these companies.
I personally feel that the comprehensive list will be an easy reference for the users in selecting their desired service provider.
Jeff Pulver, founder and chairman of Pulvermedia says,
Fring has moved ahead in its vision to provide mobile VoIP services worldwide by officially launching its MVoIP service for S60 devices. So, a number of Nokia phones, N70, N72, N80, N80i, N90, 6630, 6680, 6681 and 6682 will have now Frings MVoIP services. The users can download it from companys website.
Fring is a downloadable mobile phone application ensuring P2P 3G VoIP services to Symbian phones. The main features of Fring includes
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In its recent report, the research firm Analysys highlights the benefits of Fixed-Mobile Convergence services, which it says would bring down their voice spending by thirty percent if they combine it with VoIP technology.
So, it is high time for the mobile network operators to work hard to slow the fall in enterprise voice revenues in the face of technology that can let companies to by pass their more expensive services, the report adds.
Pseudo-Telepresence Tips
Lifehack has a shortlist of waysthat technology can help you participate at a conference withoutactually being there. (None of which are VoIP, but all of which involvenew media or social networks.)
Russell Shaw on MobileCrunch
Congratulations to fellow VoIP blogger Russell Shaw who great writing now also appears at MobileCrunch, sister site to Techcrunch.
Vonage and Motorola have developed a co-branded WiFi router, which provides VoIP, fax, telephone and Internet services all at the same time. It comes with a 4-port wired and 802.11 b/g wireless access point for home networking connectivity.
Dubbed as Motorola VT2542 Internet Phone Adopter & Wireless Router, the device connects two Vonage lines, telephone and fax through a high-speed Cable or DSL Internet connection. It has four Ethernet
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While Vonage might be getting stiffed US$58M in a patent infringement case with Verizon, money is flowing into VoIP, Wi-Fi/ WiMax, and other communications companies:
Googlephone Coming?
Does anyone care? I’m always interested in knowing about any new phone, and there’s been a bit of speculation about a phone from Google. The Big G has filed a patent that supposedly gives the GPhone predictive search capabilities. But Russell Shaw thinks that the GPhone might doom Google Talk. I’m inclined
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While reading a post at IP Democracy about whether to callcertain devices phones or not, because of all the other functions theycan perform, I recalled something a blogger friend told me on theweekend. He’s recently been using Dragon Naturally Speaking to composehis blog posts. Normally, he says, he only types about 90 wpm (wordsper minute), so using Dragon to generate 130 wpm is a bonus, despitethe steep price.
AT&T is all set to make a huge investment of $750 million to expand its global network infrastructure and provide a range of IP-based services to corporate customers worldwide.
There is an increase of 86 percent in AT&Ts spending than the pervious year. With this investment, the American telecom giant plans to add a large number
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