A survey of VoIP service providers by telecoms industry researcher, Telsyte, has identified a total of 43 in Australia but says many fail to comply with mandatory requirements.
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The Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF) has identified several key VoIP issues following its second annual VoIP Forum held in Sydney yesterday.
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Netgear and Broadband Phone have partnered to offer ISPs a wholesale VoIP service that can branded and incorporated into their existing services portfolio.
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VoIP service provider engin has announced an agreement with People Telecom under which People Telecom will resell and rebrands the engin VoIP service.
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ASX-listed VoIP service provider, engi,n says it had 10,000 paid services at 30 September 2005, up 67 percent on the number at 30 June 2005 and 15,000 today.
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ASX listed ISP, Chariot, will launch its VoIP service in December, almost a year later than planned, along with wireless broadband access services.
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Performance monitoring software provider, Integrated Research (ASX:IRI), has formed partnership with T-Systems, a division of Deutsche Telekom, for a major VoIP deployment in Germany, using its PROGNOSIS suite.
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iiNet, Australia's third largest ISP, says it is signing almost 1,000 subscribers per week to its residential VoIP service, and has passed the 10,000 subscriber mark.
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 The Government is to introduce a new (05) number range for VoIP services that are not tied to a particular location or otherwise differ from the standard telephone service.
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VoIP service provider, Freshtel Holdings, has launched a new version of its Firefly VoIP software for PCs, with "significantly enhanced capabilities" and a simpler user interface.
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NetComm has signed an exclusive technology and commercial alliance Taiwanese VoIP product developer, Octtel Communication Company to customise and market its products in Australia.
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52% of Australia’s mobile phone customers expect to make most of their calls by mobile rather than landline next year, but VoIP take-up has been slow, according to the 2005 A.T. Kearney Mobinet study.
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Broadband VoIP service provider, Broadband Phone Pty Limited has selected data centre operator Equinix to provide it with collocation and network exchange services.
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Performance management solutions provider, Integrated Research (ASX:IRI), has announced three appointments in the VoIP area. Nathan Brumby has been appointed general manager, IP Telephony, following his departure from the role of chief process officer for software development firm Object Consulting. Brumby was previously CEO of Software Engineering Australia, the initially Government funded software certification body, which was taken over by Object Consulting after failing to make the transition into a viable standalone business. Stephen Sarjeant, the new regional manager for Asia/Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, has been part of Cisco Systems and its channel family for most of his recent work experience in the UK, Middle East and Australia. He joins Integrated Research directly following a consulting assignment with Dimension Data, prior to which he was New South Wales branch manager with Cisco Systems. Kailem Anderson, IP telephony relationship manager, Denver, US, will relocate to Denver as a result of the success and expansion he has created for Integrated Research's Prognosis IP telephony product.
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iVox - which claims to be Australia's only carrier-grade, white-label VoIP wholesaler - has appointed specialist VoIP engineer, Jack Fong, to the newly-created position of senior engineer.
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) has won a multi-year contract to upgrade Sanitarium Health Food Company’s entire telephone network from a PABX system to a VoIP system, complete with wireless telephony access.
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Microsoft says it is to acquire media-streams.com AG, a 23 person Swiss software company that develops VIP based communications applications.
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A new report reveals SMBs have decisively shifted to broadband but VoIP still has a way to go before it penetrates the small business market.
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VoIP 
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has reported a 14 fold growth in demand for local telephone numbers in 2004-05, largely as a result of VoIP.
