Australian ICT infrastructure solutions and services company, UXC Connect, has secured four contracts to the value of $8 million to provide its campsite entertainment solution to thousands of workers located in four remote mining camps across the Pilbara in Western Australia.

An upgrade to the Kerio Operator IP PBX server delivers support for analogue phone lines plus some extra features that are commonly found on small business phone systems.

Australian shoe retailer Payless Shoes has contracted Primus Telecom to provide an integrated voice and data network, including a network based EFTPOS and hosted services for its 232 stores and Sydney head office under a three year deal valued at $1m. 

New firmware for Panasonic KX-NCP500 and TDE200/600 IP PBX systems brings increased capacity and new features. And it's free, so what's not to like?

Telecommunications wholesaler and aggregator Telcoinabox has signed a wholesale agreement with NBN Co and says it will launch NBN Co services to its 100 service provider customers in the first quarter of 2012. It has also launched its hosted IP telephony service, several months behind schedule. 

The IT services company, CPS Technology Group has been selected by New South Wales energy services provider, Essential Energy to deliver a new IP telephony platform, contact centre and managed services solution to drive customer service, operational savings and scalability for ongoing growth and business continuity.

Cisco is aiming to bring its VoIP and unified communications systems to a wider market through cost reductions and simplifications.

MyNetFone is boosting the number of calls included in its residential VoIP plans.  

Internode has become the first company accredited to offer PSTN-like services over the National Broadband Network and says it plans a large scale trial of these services in the latest first release site to be connected, Willunga in South Australia.

Kerio reckons it has the VoIP PABX 'for the rest of us' - at least for those of us who are SMEs. Kerio Operator 1.1 is intended to be managed by people without telephony expertise.