Ericsson will close the deal later this month, after passing muster with U.S. Committee on Foreign Investments
Ericsson said Friday that federal regulators have approved its acquisition of enterprise cloud services company Vonage. The $6.2 billion all-cash deal met with the approval of both company’s...
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Motorola Solutions continues to expand public safety services and software portfolio
In its second recent acquisition, Motorola Solutions is picking up voice-over-IP dispatch provider Avtec for an undisclosed sum.
South Carolina-based Avtec offers "business critical" VoIP dispatch services over both Land Mobile Radio and broadband...
Mobile Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has ominously transformed the business ecosphere. Nowadays, with the advent of mobile VoIP, business owners and their employees are no longer tied to the office desks for the communication. The VoIP phone systems and apps have provided ease...
Vonage brings SmartWAN to Cloud PBX platform
Service provider Vonage announced it has expanded its SD-WAN solution, SmartWAN, to its proprietary Cloud PBX platform, providing availability to small and medium-size business (SMB) customers using the Vonage Business Cloud. SMBs are now able to run their...
The tech industry, whether aware of it or not, is likely to see compliance issues arise around much more than just sales taxes in 2018. The line that separates traditional companies, which are accustomed to contending with consumption taxes, from telecom companies, which must...
The increasingly connected nature of enterprises and unified communications requires a rethink on security models.
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Voxbone looks at the work being done to formalize SIP standards
Session initiation protocol, the most popular voice over Internet protocol telephony protocol, saw daylight for the first time in 1999. The new signaling standard defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force was written with...
Mitel expects further advances in Wi-Fi first services
Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
The year ahead promises some interesting developments in the...
Texas jury found Metaswitch infringed on 7 Genband patents linked to VoIP technology
Genband late last week claimed a court victory in patent case against Metaswitch Networks, with a jury finding infringement of seven Genband patents related to voice-over-IP technology.
According to Genband, a jury...
Session initiation protocol trunking has a bad reputation. But like other forms of emerging technologies, people who don’t quite understand how it works tend to perpetuate fear rather than learn how it can be a vital communications backbone to any business. There are stories...
IHS report found Verizon No. 1; CenturyLink surged to No. 2
Verizon Communications retained the top spot in the latest ranking of North America’s top session initial protocol trunking service providers.
The survey, conducted by IHS Infonetics, noted Verizon maintained the No. 1 position for the...
Argument that FCC has essentially reclassified VoIP services
WASHINGTON – Net neutrality is rapidly becoming an issue that is very good for lawyers. On June 8, TechFreedom, CARI.net and self-described leading Internet entrepreneurs Jeff Pulver, Scott Banister, Charles Giancarlo, David Frankel and Wendell Brown filed...
Last week, a post on GetVoIP discussed an important trend in the hosted telecom carrier arena: The unified communications sector is more directly targeting small and midsize businesses. This has given rise to arrangements in which the heavy lifting is done away from the...
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Can T-Mobile USA...
Mobile operators expanding their voice over LTE services in 2015 want to make sure it’s not a replay of the massive LTE data outages that plagued the industry from 2011 to 2014. One way they’re accomplishing that goal is by revamping their monitoring approach to...
The Web Real-Time Communications market received a jolt with Sonus Networks unveiling its WebRTC Services Solution, which the company said was purpose-built for the cloud.
Sonus explained that its platform provides signaling from WebRTC-to-WebRTC applications and interworking from WebRTC-to-Session Initiation Protocol to provide real-time communications...
SK Telecom rolls out tri-band LTE-A service
SK Telecom claims it has commercialized the first tri-band LTE-Advanced service. The company made the announcement Sunday, noting that the service is in an effort to develop so-called "5G" networks.
The tri-band LTE-A service is designed to allow users...
OTTs targeted by India's biggest carrier
Days after moving to discourage use of over-the-top applications by implementing a voice over Internet Protocol rate hike, India’s Bharti Airtel pulled the change on Monday, according to reports.
OTT providers like Skype, Viber and others, use a customer’s data...
China Unicom 4G focus in 2015
China Unicom's subscriber base continues to slow. In November, the carrier registered fewer than 1.1 million 3G and 4G users, the lowest number in more than three years.
The operator is planning to focus on 4G devices in 2015. Forbes reports...
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Updated with T-Mobile US comments.
Voice over LTE services are set to receive a significant boost as a pair of unlikely partners announced plans to enable VoLTE interoperability beginning in 2015.
Today, Verizon Communications and AT&T announced plans to allow their respective customers to conduct VoLTE...
The industry is abuzz with the promise that voice over LTE can bring. Carriers are seeing it as an effective means to gain spectrum efficiency and reduce the cost of service delivery.
