August 02, 2006
VoIP Roundup - Wed Aug 2/06
MediaRing in Singapore will be offering "prefix-3" VoIP phone numbers. These numbers can receive calls from both PSTN and mobile phones as well. [via ChannelNews Asia]
Verizon had just reported a loss of US$500 million between Q1 and Q2 of 2006. A story in today's New York Times confirms this. Verizon is the USA's No. 2 local phone carrier, just behind AT&T. Qwest, the fourth largest carrier, also reported losses due to VoIP/ Internet telephony compared to a year ago. Both companies stated that increased sales of broadband and wireless services dampened the losses slightly. [Aside: As I was about to post this roundup, CNBC TV showed a video segment about New York's over-taxed electric grid, and how Verizon is helping out with hydrogen cells.]
Now here's a company who understands unlimited Internet usage from a cell phone. The UK's T-Mobile is offering rates of less than a penny per kilobyte, with a maximum charge of 1 GBP (Great British Pound) per day. It's all free after that, for the rest of a day. They're also not limiting what sites you visit, but proof of age is required for access to adult sites. Unfortunately, this service is only available for two phones: the Motorola v3 RAZR and the Nokia 6131, with other handsets promised soon. [via The Register]
Infonetics Research, in their VoIP Services report, says that VoIP service revenue has doubled between 2004 and 2005 in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific. In these regions, from 2005-2009, It's expected that US$120 billion will be spent on VoIP services. [via Infonetics]
VoIP Inc. has just launched their VoiceOne Lab Development website as a showcase for their new VoIP technology and projects. [via New Telephony] Interestingly, the project page has something called the gTalk Mobile Client. Should be interesting to see who has the rights to that name, as some people use GTalk to refer to Google Talk's IM client.
--
Did you enjoy this post?
« Festoon Unity Video + Voice Bridges Skype + Google Talk | Main | How Do You VoIP? »
