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  • Epik Networks Predicts the Emergence of Mobile VoIP Service Providers in 2014


    With the services of mobile VOIP providers in 2014, businesses will be able to reduce phone costs as well as come up with better communication solutions.

    Epik Networks, the VOIP provider of internet and phone services made this prediction as businesses look for ways or reducing communication charges after the year that experienced high cell phone bills resulting from long distance charges, long contracts, and high roaming fees.

    The providers of mobile VOIP service will possibly bundle services together and come up with a single, seamless solution for work provided cell phones cell phones and office landline phones. The move would lower costs. For instance, there’ll be elimination of the need for several lines and the interoffice charges.
    Cell phone expenses will be streamlined too. Specifically, small and medium businesses will find a feasible alternative to major mobility carriers in Canada as they explore communications capability in the same way that larger enterprises do.

    The regular smartphone will contain simple VOIP applications, making it a portable extension of an office’s network. The alternative will enable businesses to enjoy benefits like faster networks, speedy WIFI hotspots, easy management of business communication services and reduction in costs.

  • Verizon Signs Agreements for Four IP VoIP Interconnections despite Continuous Regulatory Issues


    Verizon has reached an agreement with four new service providers for IP VoIP program, though it has to overcome numerous regulatory challenges. The company has made agreements for IP VoIP interconnections with Comcast, Vonage as well as six other providers.

    Despite making progress on the deals, Verizon in a filing made to the FCC said that it is hoping to create an environment where service providers can deploy the services rapidly. The company holds that the commission should lead the IP transition on a natural and market driven migration of the clients to the packet-switched VoIP service from the circuit-switched TDM.

    Verizon has formulated its own agreement for IP interconnections that is hoped to provide a national structured agreement for service providers who are in need of exchanging VoIP traffic. However, the company notes that the recent regulatory decisions in Massachusetts and Michigan may interfere with the IP transition.

    The company notes that the backward looking regulations may disrupt the immense progress that has been made and is continuously being made in the industry through commercial agreements and negotiations.

    However, not everyone agrees with Verizon on the matter. The chief advocate of COMPTEL, Angie Kronenberg noted that states do not have to wait for IP interconnection issues to follow actions taken by the FCC. Kronenberg noted that states should be allowed to use their authority to address issues to do with interconnections in cases where the parties do not reach into an agreement.

  • The USPTO Offers an Issue Date For Mobile Gateway Patent for VoIP-Pal.Com


    The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) have finally offered an issue notification to VoIP-Pal.com for its mobile gateway patent. The issue date is set for January 14th 2014.

    The mobile gateway enables users to make long distance calls at the local rates through the use of the existing mobile telephone network. The users can also access the reserved telephone numbers extracted from the origination site of the call.

    The Chairman as well as CEO of VoIP-Pal.com, Dr. Thomas E. Sawyer stated that with the worldwide extension of LTE, services such as LTE broadcast, LTE connected vehicles, and carrier grade WiFi makes the Voip-Pal’s patented mobile Gateway quite obvious. He also indicated that VoIP-Pal is well set for the future, being technologically savvy in terms of mobile internet.

    Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google indicated that the mobile trend has seen a significant increase and is poised to stand out in 2014. He also indicated that Voip-Pal has the patented technology that will see it emerge as the leading player in the rapidly growing roaming internet.

  • Local Businesses Seek VoIP Device Engineers and iPhone Developer

    As the festive season comes to a close and as the New Year kicks on, potential employees and employers will find the first quarter of 2014 an important period. Having said this, you should make Mendham-Chester Patch one of the sites you visit the most.

    At mendham-chester.patch.com, you will come across a number of local companies searching for both part-time and full-time employees. Aside from this, you may just find an opportunity that may transform your career for good.

    Although no businesses in the Chesters or Mendhams are searching for new employees this week, there is an opening for a few jobs in the technology industry. A HTML/iPhone Developer is on demand in Rockway for an upcoming retail company. This employer wants an employee with an experience of one or two years in iPhone development. The remuneration ranges between $80,000 and $100,000 a year.

    In addition to the iPhone/HTML opportunity, another company in Basking Ridge is in search of a test engineer for IMS/VoLTE devices. The potential applicant you should have several years of experience in different fields but of course related to the post mentioned.  This position will be based on a contract.

  • NobelApp Premier VoIP App That Works with the Current Nobel Phone Cards

    Nobel Ltd, a significant player in the telecom market globally will be launching NobelApp, a unique app for android and iPhone smartphones. The NobelApp is a very practical tool for many people across the world that make use Nobel’s phone cards since it is compatible with all the current company products.

    NobelApp can be used by everyone who is looking for a low cost and reliable international calling solution, even if they are not Nobel clients. Some of the unique features from the NobelApp include an all round connectivity where users can make calls using their local access numbers or use of their data connection or Wi-Fi to make calls.

    The app also provides very competitive international call rates to different parts of the world. It also has a 24/7 live integrated chat support for all users that require help. The app also enables international mobile phone recharge and Call history for more than 270 cell phone networks worldwide as well as worldwide text messaging that is available when clients buy NobelApp Credit.

    Alongside the NobelApp, the company has also launched the NobelApp Credit, which is a new and unique product that is perfect for the newly introduced calling solution. Customers are able to buy NobelApp Credit worth $10 to $150 for sending text messages, making international calls, recharging prepaid mobile phones in over 270 cell phone networks across the world.

    NobelApp can be used with any previous product from Nobel including Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald & Diamond from the enjoyprepaid.com website together with the Call, Hello, Talk, and 1 second products from the nobelcom.com website. Currently, NobelApp can be downloaded for free from Google Play and App Store.

  • Velocity VoIP Uses PortaOne and OpenCNAM to Offer Caller ID to Wholesale/Retail Customers in Seconds


    Velocity VoIP is one of the most innovative hosted VoIP infrastructure providers out there. In 2011, the Boca Raton, Florida-based company took a major step in its quest by choosing PortaOne PortaSwitch Procinctus. This is PortaOne’s fully redundant and high capacity product and is its core convergent softswitch billing software.

    Jason Silverman, Director of Sales for Velocity VoIP indicated that the company’s reseller clients are always looking for different ways to grow their business. He added that Caller ID is not a new service, but the need to offer the service quickly, on a customer to customer basis is paramount. He indicated that the company has realized that there is need for a strategy to offer CNAM products through all the underlying carriers and CLEC relationships in such a way that both of them benefit economically.

    The CNAM, or Caller Name Delivery enables customers to instantly see the Phone number information and caller name for any incoming phone call. In the past, adding the CNAM to a system was a very involved process, however, this process has been simplified by OpenCNAM. The OpenCNAM is now available as a simple web service and is widely used throughout the industry to provide Caller ID information for mobile applications, phone systems, CRM systems and fraud prevention systems for large financial institutions. Its elegant API is well suited for IT professionals, developers and enterprise telecommunications companies.

    Silverman noted that customers are always demanding for low cost, higher quality services with a broad list of features. These kinds of solutions will now be provided thanks to PortaOne.

  • VoIP Provider Jajah Shattered By Telecom Giant Telefonica after Skype and Others Drive Prices to Bottom

    European telephone giant and 5th largest carrier worldwide, Telefonica said that it will shut down Janah, its VoIP unit on January 31st 2014. This is yet another sign of mounting trouble in the VoIP industry.

    The shattering will end what was once considered a success story in the industry. Janah was once of the very few companies offering VoIP services that survived the onslaught of consolidation in 2010. Telefonica was sold by Skype for $207 million, at a time when even competitors like Jaxtr and Jangl were sold for pennies in asset sales or went out of business.

    The closure means that Jajah Direct services and Jajah.com will no longer be offered and customers will not be able to make any calls. According to the company, Janah account holders will continue to use their accounts until31st January. However, the statement did not shed light on why Janah is closing.

    It is possible that Janah was not making any meaningful profit and may even have been getting losses. The company had clearly lost the race to Skype that was acquired by Microsoft in 2011. Earlier this year, Microsoft indicated that Skype now had 33% of worldwide VoIP calls.

    However, industry experts have pointed out that the voice traffic is dying; has become commoditized and overall prices, revenue and traffic are dropping. This means that Skype’s victory may be a hollow one for Microsoft, which has declined to indicate whether Skype is profitable or not.

    All this has not been helped by the large number of popular VoIP providers including Viber, Vonage Google Voice and FaceTime from Apple.

  • University Community Linked By Unified Communication


    The University of Washington has sought the services of unified communication to combine its data, voice and networks as well as to build a platform that supports diverse products.

    The University of Washington finds the effective connection of data and people extremely paramount. The university serves more than 51,000 students as well as about 31,000 faculty members across 3 different academic campuses as well as 500 buildings scattered across Bothell, Wash, Tacoma, and Seattle.

    About three years ago, the communication infrastructure in the University was out of date. It was not sufficient for supporting many of the systems and applications that are needed in today’s education environment such as BYOD, mobility and video conferencing. Roland Rivera, UW's director of network strategy and telecommunications noted that better integration of data services is extremely critical and it was apparent that there is need for getting unified communications infrastructure.

    The unified communication system supports products from different vendors such as AVST, Microsoft Lync, Polycom and Cisco. With the use of a web-based management console, the IT tem can isolate different communities of use, oversee routing and dial plan management and also better manage licensing and security.

    Rivera indicates that the unified communication solution has brought the school’s infrastructure to the digital age. In the long run, it is expected to trim IT costs as well as administrative overheads while providing greater flexibility and simplicity.

  • Nokia Upgrades Asha 501 with VoIP and WhatsApp

    Nokia has updated Asha 501 with WhatsApp, voice-over-IP and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync features. The company has continued to improve the competitiveness of the Asha family while waiting for Microsoft to complete the acquisition of its devices and services business. At the moment, the company is still facing insurmountable competition from low-cost android based devices.

    The GSM Asha 501 was launched in May and it features a 3-inch screen, Wi-Fi, a 3.2 megapixel camera and the choice between one or two sim cards. The list price was $99 without taxes or subsidies at the time of the launch.

    The upgrade offers users similar software to what is used in the recently announced Asha 500, 502 and 503. Once the update has been received, users can download the WhatsApp client and begin sending instant message.

    The software allows users to make voice calls over data connections through the use of social messaging Apps like Nimbuzz in the beginning and more are expected soon. Nokia has also implemented the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync features for enterprise users.

    Nokia has also made significant changes to the operating system, not just the third-party applications. Users for example can long press the screen to access the camera settings, swipe the screen to start the camera and also swipe to switch to the video mode to the image mode and vice versa.

    Fastlane is a key feature in the user interface that shows social networks, apps and recently accessed contacts. Users can now personalize the application to feature their desired contents. The users can also choose to view full notifications or notification icons on the lock screen.

  • Hosted VoIP Choices Extended By Snom


    Snom     has stated its 7xx series of SIP-based IP endpoints which has received certification to work with Class 5 Softswitch and IPsmarx' multi-tenant IP-PBX platform.

    The certification enables IPsmarx customers the ability to make use of Snom's 7xx series phones with Class 5 Softswitch and its multi-tenant IP-PBX, which includes email marketing, integrated billing, e-commerce functionality and call routing that are wrapped up in a single solution.

    IPsmarx is unique since its VoIP-based telephony services have been packaged to include service applications, billing, marketing capabilities, softswitch and account management. This single solution supports both direct and indirect sales channels. The integrated billing, softswitch and application servers offers scalable and reliable delivery of SIP trunks, VoIP business lines and hosted IP-PBX services with faster time to market and with low costs of ownership.

    Mike Storella, COO of snom indicated that IPsmarx has been the market leader in the fast growing IP-PBX and Softswitch market.

    There has been a steady growth for hosted IP-PBX services as customers leverage its main benefits in terms of convenience, cost, reliability, rich features and unlimited calling.

    In 2010, IPsmarx joined Snom's technology partner program in Snom’s quest to achieve interoperability with the leading communication technology partners.

    The 7xx series of phones from Snom include:
    710: The 710 phone has a rich set of everyday business telephony features, supports four SIP identities and it is suitable for small and large scale deployments.
    720: The 720 supports 12 SIP identities and is Bluetooth headset ready. It also comes with two Gigabit Ethernet ports including one for Power over Ethernet and a USB connector.