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TMCnet

Study Reveals $5.5 Billion VoIP Equipment Revenue by 2007

Mar 31, 2006 at 5:48 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Exploring Frontlines

A recent study conducted by research firm Juniper Research revealed that revenues from the sale of business VoIP hardware and software will reach a whopping $5.5 billion by 2007.

Analysts believe that the movement will be mostly driven by rapid new business growth in China...

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TMCnet

Why Does France Have Faster, Cheaper Broadband?

Mar 30, 2006 at 2:58 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Exploring Frontlines

According to a recent article in The New York Times, the average American family now spends about $100 a month for a "triple play" cable package delivering television, high speed Internet and IP telephone service.

Meanwhile, in France, the average family spends about $50 - and several new ISPs which have recently come onto the scene in that country are now charging as little as $35 a month for what is basically the same "triple play" package.

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Toronto Star

Berners-Lee Speaks About Net Neutrality

Mar 29, 2006 at 2:51 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Regulation & Policies

Tim Berners-Lee, chief architect of the World Wide Web, says his world-changing invention would no longer be an "open information space" if broadband providers abandoned the principle of Net neutrality.

In an interview with the Toronto Star, Berners-Lee said he's "very concerned" about talk from major North America phone and cable giants about their desire to collect so-called Web tolls from content suppliers and e-commerce companies that want assured access to broadband subscribers.

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eWeek

Skype Faces $4.1 Billion Racketeering Lawsuit

Mar 29, 2006 at 2:43 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Legal Issues

Internet phone service provider Skype Technologies said it plans to defend itself against explosive allegations that its technology is actually owned by another company, Streamcast Networks.

Skype, owned by eBay, of San Jose, Calif., has been accused of creating a secret shell firm in order to steal away some peer-to-peer technology developed by Streamcast, then use it to build the Skype service, according to a lawsuit Streamcast filed in January in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

Streamcast's complaint was first reported upon the week of March 27 by Andy Abramson of the Web site VoIP Watch.

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CNET News

New Broadband Bill Draws Fire

Mar 29, 2006 at 2:15 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Regulation & Policies

Internet companies including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are protesting new federal legislation that would not strictly regulate how broadband operators can organize their network.

In a letter to Congress on Tuesday, the companies told Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, that his bill [PDF] to revamp telecommunications laws "would fail to protect the Internet." Barton is the chairman of the House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee.

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CNET News

Net neutrality fans lose on Capitol Hill

Mar 28, 2006 at 10:32 am PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Regulation & Policies

Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican who heads the committee responsible for telecommunications legislation, released the text Monday and said that a hearing had been scheduled for Thursday at 10 am ET.

"This bill will produce an explosion of opportunity for American workers, and American consumers will get an array of video services that were unimagined just a few years ago," said Barton, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

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Calgary Herald

Canadian Cable Company Sued by U.S. Rival Over TV Ad

Mar 27, 2006 at 2:46 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Legal Issues

Internet telephone provider ZingoTel has filed a $1.2 million lawsuit against Shaw Communications, claiming the cable giant refused to broadcast a ZingoTel TV spot because it promoted a competing phone service.

ZingoTel, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said it arranged in October to pay Shaw's media buyer, Corus Entertainment, $36,000 to air an advertisement on one of Shaw's channels.

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CIO

Who Owns the Internet? See This Map

Mar 24, 2006 at 1:12 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Exploring Frontlines

What is this ball of colors? It is the North American Internet, or more specifically a map of just about every router on the North American backbone, (there are 134,855 of them for those who are counting). The colors represent who each router is registered to. Red is Verizon; blue AT&T; yellow Qwest; green is major backbone players like Level 3 and Sprint Nextel; black is the entire cable industry put together; and gray is everyone else, from small telecommunications companies to large international players who only have a small presence in the U.S.

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Washington Post

Packaged Telecom Services a Tangle of Trouble?

Mar 24, 2006 at 12:58 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Business Strategies

Lori Mabry thought she was getting a good deal by putting all of her home communications needs in the hands of one company.

Two years ago, the Lanham resident turned to AT&T for a package of services including local and long-distance phone and high-speed Internet, saving at least $50 and the hassle of writing three checks. But when she tried to replace the Internet component of her package with another company, the whole deal fell apart, and Mabry wound up disgruntled.

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Networking Pipeline

FCC Chief Supporting AT&T on Limiting Net Bandwidth

Mar 23, 2006 at 10:28 am PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Regulation & Policies

FCC Chief Kevin Martin yesterday gave his support to AT&T and other telcos who want to be able to limit bandwidth to sites like Google, unless those sites pay extortion fees. Martin made it clear in a speech yesterday that he supports such a "tiered" Internet.

Martin told attendees at the TelecomNext show that telcos should be allowed to charge web sites whatever they want if those sites want adequate bandwidth.

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Yahoo! News

VoIP Revenues to Reach $18bn by 2010, Telco to Shrink $36bn

Mar 22, 2006 at 3:59 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Exploring Frontlines

Revenues from Voice over IP (VoIP) services in the business sector will reach $18 billion by 2010, according to a new study by Juniper Research. VoIP Growth will be driven by: The replacement of existing business circuit switched connectivity; The lower cost of calls; Massive growth in the Chinese telecoms market; Businesses reaping the efficiencies of carrying voice and data traffic over one network; and the realisation that integrating voice functionality into business critical IT applications will improve business productivity.

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silicon.com

China Relaxing VoIP Restrictions?

Mar 21, 2006 at 5:35 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Regulation & Policies

Speculation is growing that China could be about to relax restrictions on its voice over IP (VoIP) market.

A report last week in The Beijing News said the Chinese government has granted a VoIP licence to a southern Chinese telecoms company for a pilot programme, and telecom carriers and virtual network operators (VNO) will be allowed to apply for the licences starting in 2007.

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TMCnet

Juniper Study Reveals VoIP Revenue Success

Mar 20, 2006 at 6:01 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Exploring Frontlines

Driven by low costs, the Asian market, and promises of enhanced efficiency, a new study by Juniper Research estimates that revenues from VoIP services in the business sector will reach $18 billion by 2010.

According to the study, VoIP providers can thank factors such as the replacement of existing business circuit switched connectivity, the lower cost of calls, massive growth in the Chinese telecom market, the efficiencies of carrying voice and data traffic over one network, and improved business productivity for this future financial windfall.

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Red Herring

Zfone May Protect VoIP Calls

Mar 15, 2006 at 3:16 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Security

Phil Zimmermann, the guy who gave the world free email encryption a decade ago, has a second act. It's called, tentatively, Zfone (there are other names under consideration) and what it does is encrypt VoIP calls.

The product, unveiled Tuesday, doesn't rely on servers, public key infrastructure, trust models, certificate authorities, or key management -- problems that trouble email encryption. Instead, the application sits on a user's computer, and looks for VoIP traffic emanating from its Internet connection.

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Red Herring

VoIP Holds a Pep Rally

Mar 14, 2006 at 3:24 pm PDT | Posted by Voiponder Reporter | Technologies

VoIP companies are expected to use an Internet telephony conference this week as a major pep rally to argue they can offer reliable service capable of replacing usually more costly wireless and landline phone service, analysts said Tuesday.

Based in downtown San Jose, California, the VON, or Voice On the Net, conference is seen drawing more than 300 communications companies hawking VoIP products, as well as the major phone and cable companies looking for startups and emerging technologies.

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