Unlimited calls and texts: We considered how each free VoIP phone service limits you and found most allow unlimited calls, texts or video meetings for domestic outbound communication. Most services ...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services allow users to place telephone calls over the internet rather than through traditional analog or cellular phone networks. VoIP has grown in popularity in ...

Here as well as elsewhere, I've written numerous pieces tracking both trends, as well as case histories of enterprise-level VoIP deployments. The usual mix involves identification of a problem, an RFP ...

The FCC is requiring VoIP service providers to obtain acknowledgement from customers that they understand the current limitations of their provider's E911 service. The requirement is to be fulfilled ...

The most reliable internet protocol (IP) desk phone is Polycom VVX because its hardware is crafted to an extremely high standard, and its user base appears to be consistently satisfied with its ...

Internet telephony companies already offer major cost savings over traditional telephone services, but now they're challenging one another for the title of cheapest of the cheap in an increasingly ...

Providers of voice over Internet Protocol services face yet another regulatory issue. The Federal Communications Commission recently expanded the federal Universal Service Fund (USF) reporting and ...

Culver writes, “Carriers of all types will continue to seek ways to avoid the costly PSTN while also interconnecting with new service providers and developing services beyond VOIP, including video, ...

Over the last several years, many consumers, small and medium size businesses (SMB) and even global enterprises have flocked to voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. And the industry has ...

* FCC ruling brings VoIP service providers one step closer to becoming full-fledged phone companies Last week, the FCC issued a ruling that takes VoIP service providers one step closer to becoming ...

The company's new SIP-7 (Session Initiation Protocol 7) Services allow SIP providers to connect to Verisign's SS7 network. By offloading the complexity of interworking with the SS7 system, VoIP ...