NTL Telewest is developing a voice-over-IP residential telephone service and has appointed telecoms giant Ericsson to help roll it out. A five year agreement has been signed between the two parties.

With the roof caving in from a torrent of rain and then a gush of more water bursting from a water main and the fire sprinklers, George Malgoza raced to his company’s wiring closet and grabbed the ...

Designed to pair with Google Voice but compatible with other VoIP providers, this little gizmo promises free (or at least dirt-cheap) phone service for life. Rick Broida is the author of numerous ...

As their branch office and teleworker networks grow, companies are increasingly looking to connect remote users to their central phone systems using Voice over IP (VoIP) technology. One way of doing ...

Fully global, end-to-end voice over IP (VoIP) is not yet practical for all organizations. But intra-office VoIP hardware can be deployed in data routers and managed with the same tools used to ...

A few years ago, voice over IP was the domain of just a handful of early pioneers including 3Com, Cisco, Clarent, Nuera Communications and Hypercom. But now this convergence technology is finally ...

Although wireless standards like 3G, 4G, and 5G are mostly associated with mobile internet, they also include a phone (voice) component. Up till 4G this was done using traditional circuit-switched ...

Voice over IP base stations are apparently all the rage these days; Softbank has a new one coming out in Japan called the BB Phone Station that basically combines a Vonage-like Internet telephone ...

This week’s sneak peek of a Cisco Press book is Voice over IP Fundamentals, 2nd Edition by Jonathan Davidson, James Peters, Manoj Bhatia, Satish Kalidindi, and Sudipto Mukherjee. The book explains how ...

It”s only reasonable that we begin a discussion of bringing VoIP into the broadcast studio by answering the obvious question: Why? The simple answer: VoIP has become the new standard for telephone ...