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by Stuart Corner
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Telstra International has launched Global Voice over IP, a service for corporate customers designed to minimise their international calling costs by carrying their outgoing voice calls as VoIP over Telstra's global IP network and delivering these into the PSTN as close as possible to their destination. A similar service is provided for incoming traffic originating from international toll free numbers.
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by Stan Beer
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Apple is readying itself to launch two mobile phone models early in 2007, one of which will be a smartphone with a keyboard, and at least one will have WiFi capability, according to a market analyst. The name iPhone, which has been bandied around in past months, has also reportedly been registered by Apple.
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by Stuart Corner
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SingTel is planning to install 2400 hotspots across Northern Singapore by May 2007 through which it will offer free Internet access and unlimited VoIP calls for a fixed monthly fee as well as TV over broadband and location based and other services.
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by Stuart Corner
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Primus Telecom, which launched its TalkBroadband residential VoIP service via an ATA, in March this year, has added softphone access and is promoting the service with a free two week trial offering four hours worth of calls.
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by Stuart Corner
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UK research firm, Analysys, predicts that more revenue will be earned from VoIP traffic originating from cellphones than from fixed lines phones in the US and Europe by 2012, in part because cellular VoIP services will be positioned as premium services.
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by Stuart Corner
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Intel and Siemens Communications are to collaborate on secure wireless networks and to create VoIP-based unified communications systems.
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by Stuart Corner
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After launching and boasting about big ambitions for its VoIP subsidiary, BroadIP, Broad Investments (ASX: BRO) has announced plans to cut back on its telephony business and focus instead on its mobile content and mobile application subsidiaries.
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by Stuart Corner
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AOL is opening its new AIM Phoneline Internet telephony service to developers in a bid to generate attractive applications and devices that will help it compete with the likes of Skype in an increasingly crowded market.
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by Stuart Corner
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Chariot has reported an asset write down of $7.3 million resulting from its failed VoIP joint venture with Transcom International and has vowed to hit back at Transcom's $3.2 million legal claim over the business with one of its own for an even higher figure.
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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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