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by Stuart Corner
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Freshtel (ASX: FRE) which operates wholesale and retail VoIP services in the UK and retail in Australia says it had a total of 352,000 customers on its network at 30 June 2006. It claims to have added 47,000 in the three months to 30 August.
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by Stuart Corner
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Callback flourished in the late 80s and early 90s when there was a huge imbalance between the costs of an international call depending on which country originated the call. Now an Australian company has revived the concept to bypass the high cost of international mobile roaming charges, and of international calls from mobile phones.
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by Stuart Corner
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According to testing company, Minacom, VoIP phone service worldwide "now sounds better and connects faster than the standard public-switched phone network (PSTN)." However this achievement does not extend to the likes of Skype and GoogleTalk.
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by Stuart Corner
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Chariot has given 30 August as the launch date for its long delayed VoIP service.
Meanwhile there is still no launch date for the service from its erstwhile partner Transcom International.
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by Stuart Corner
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Internet kiosk developer, pieNETWORKS (ASX: PIE) has introduced a WiFi connected payphone offering VoIP calls at rates claimed to be lower than PSTN payphones.
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by Stuart Corner
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Philips has launched in Australia two cordless phones selling for less that $160 that operate both as PSTN phones with one model supporting Skype and the other Windows Live Messenger.
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by Stan Beer
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So many people are making VoIP calls from their desktop computers these days that peripherals manufacturer Logitech has decided to cash on the booming market by providing a plug and play hardware package in both Europe and the US.
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by Stuart Corner
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In separate announcements, VoIP wholesaler ISPhone has become a reseller of Linksys VoIP CPE and the Linksys One VoIP service and recently launched VoIP retailer Broad IP has struck up an alliance with Optus subsidiary Uecomm.
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by Stuart Corner
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Pipe Networks has launched Australia's first commercial VoIP peering service enabling VoIP providers to directly interconnect VoIP calls with other VoIP providers reducing interconnection costs and increasing service performance.
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by Stuart Corner
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Telecoms research firm Market Clarity has launched what it claims to be the largest online directory of Australian VoIP service providers, with sponsorship from ISPhone and Linksys.
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by Stuart Corner
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The quality of voice calls carried over the Internet has decreased significantly in the past 18 months to the point where nearly 20 percent of calls have unacceptable call quality, according to results from Brix Networks' voice quality testing portal.
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by Stuart Corner
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Chariot has announced plans to launch a VoIP service independent of its former partner, Transcom International with which it is locked in legal conflict. Transcom claims the service breaches a restraint clause in their now defunct wholesale agreement.
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by Stuart Corner
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AAPT has launched Business Connect, the first fully managed VoIP service for SMEs that combines the function of PSTN line replacement with centrex functions and valued added services such as voice messaging to email.
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by Stuart Corner
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ASX listed VoIP service provider and technology developer, Freshtel, has announced plans to launch its own retail VoIP service and co-developed internet phone products, with Binatone, in the UK.
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by Stuart Corner
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According to IDC Australia's latest survey of end-users' usage of and preferences for broadband and IP services, VoIP represents the biggest opportunity for companies offering products and services to this market.
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by Stuart Corner
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Two US hackers charged this week with a large scale VoIP scam could well have done the world a major service: demonstrated convincingly what many experts have long been saying, that VoIP networks are just as vulnerable to all the same sorts of nefarious activity as the Internet in general.
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by Stuart Corner
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VoIP provider engin has announced details of its collaboration with Intel and Australian PC manufacturer, Optima, to enable an analogue phone to be plugged into a PC and used to make engin VoIP calls over the PC's broadband connection.
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by Stuart Corner
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See also:
MYOB to offer engin VoIP service
M2 Telecommunications is to enter the VoIP services market by reselling the engin service.
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