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by Stan Beer
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ASX listed technology company pieNETWORKS (ASX:PIE) has signed a contract with Telecom New Zealand to trial its Webphone product.
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by Stuart Corner
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VoIP has long been held up as the biggest threat to the revenue streams of traditional telephony operators, but a new report argues that VoIP over instant messaging (VoIM) poses a much bigger threat.
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by Stuart Corner
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Market researcher, Market Clarity is forecasting 4.8 million VoIP services in Australia by 2011, but says that VoIP will account for only a very a small proportion of total telecommunications revenue.
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by Stuart Corner
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Telstra has introduced a range of 'subscription' fixed line plans for businesses with less than 10 lines with a key feature being individual plans for each line.
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by Stuart Corner
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Hutchison Telecom Australia has confirmed it is planning to launch a new Hutchison global service, announced and reported in iTWire last November, that will enable users to make Skye VoIP calls.
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by Stephen Withers
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Symbio's newly established point of presence in Auckland will enable its clients to provide superior quality for trans-Tasman calls.
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by Stuart Corner
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A computer can pass the Turing Test if it can fool a human being - through its responses in a conversation - into thinking that it is human. NEC's VoIP spam detector claims to be using a computer to determine whether a caller is human or a machine. Quite an achievement!
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by Stuart Corner
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Customers of the engin VoIP service can now make calls via public, and private WiFi access points using the new Nokia N80 Internet Edition cellphone which incorporates WLAN connectivity and VoIP support.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Nokia’s N80 3G phone has offered inbuilt Wi-Fi along with regular 2G/3G features. Now they’ve teamed up with Australian VoIP company Engin to offer 10c untimed VoIP calls when in range of a connectable Wi-Fi network
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by Stuart Corner
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Communications Alliance (formerly ACIF) has published a 28 page booklet to assist consumers and small businesses who are considering a VoIP service for their home or office.
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by Stuart Corner
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Wholesale VoIP service provider, ISPhone Australasia, has appointed James Spenceley to the newly created position of Chief Technology Officer, charged with expanding the business from its core VoIP offering to it becoming "a fully-fledged next generation network service provider, offering a complete suite of Internet services, virtual private networks (VPN) and ADSL services for small to medium enterprises (SMEs)."
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by Stuart Corner
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New technology from Nokia will enable customers of established telcos to make VoIP calls from a PC using their mobile number and receive calls to their cellphone number on the PC or cellphone. Nokia suggest this will deter customers from opting for separate accounts from upstart VoIP providers.
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by Stuart Corner
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Thanks to VoIP it is now possible to create a global presence for a business with local phone numbers in major cities around the world for very little cost.
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by Stuart Corner
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VoIP service provider My Net Fone (ASX: MNF) has doubled to 20,000 the number of paying subscribers since its IPO in May, and iiNet (ASX: IIN) announced earlier this week that it had 40,000 paying customers.
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by Stuart Corner
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UK retailing giant Tesco is to increase its stake in Australian VoIP provider, Freshtel (ASX: FRE) (which provides Tesco's retail VoIP offering in the UK) to 12.34 percent by investing $12.3 million.
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by Stuart Corner
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The ACMA says there are 118 VoIP providers in Australia, research company Market Clarity puts the number at almost double that. Who's right?
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by Stuart Corner
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The chairman of VoIP service provider, Engin, in his address to the company's AGM says the growing number of small VoIP players are giving the technology a bad name in the eyes of consumers.
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by Stuart Corner
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Integrated Research (ASX: IPI) is to port Prognosis, its software for managing large scale Cisco VoIP networks, to three other leading vendors, effectively tripling its addressable market.
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