VoIP

CHICAGO-Two high-profile wireless veterans have joined BridgePort Networks’ board of advisors. The mobile Voice over Internet Protocol company has added Perry M. LaForge, executive director of the CDMA Development Group, …

MANKATO, Minn.-Regional wireless operator Midwest Wireless launched its integrated oneWave telecommunications service combining features and functions of the carrier’s wireless phone service with a home or office phone using its …

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-The worldwide wireless local area network semiconductor market is expected to grow to 487 million units by 2009, according to new studies from IDC. WLAN semiconductor revenues will reach …

WASHINGTON-After hearing emotional presentations from users who were unable to successfully connect to 911 from Voice over Internet Protocol phones, the Federal Communications Commission last week adopted rules requiring VoIP …

Following is a list of debt and financial ratings changes for wireless companies announced this week by financial firms. Merrill Lynch upgraded its view of the overall technology market from …

EDISON, N.J.-VoIP carrier Vonage Holdings Corp. said it has agreed to purchase access to elements of the wireless and wireline enhanced 911 network to offer E911 service to its customers …

WASHINGTON-After hearing emotional presentations from users who have been unsuccessfully able to connect to 911 from Voice over Internet Protocol phones, the Federal Communications Commission Thursday adopted rules requiring VoIP …

WASHINGTON-While wireless carriers had years to deploy enhanced 911 services (and still missed the mark), Voice over Internet Protocol carriers are expected to have only until fall if rules proposed …

TEL AVIV, Israel-Fixed-mobile network provider Outsmart Ltd. snared $17 million in a recent funding round from Accel Partners, Gemini Israel Funds and Magnum Communications Fund, the company said Tuesday. Outsmart …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Wireless Internet access got a little easier in two Western U.S. cities with separate announcements this week. AnchorFree Wireless launched free Wi-Fi service in the commercial segment of San …

Less than a month ago, I wrote a column about how the recent lull in wireless activity (mergers, etc.) was just the calm before the storm. Boom! Did you hear …

Following is a list of debt and credit upgrades and downgrades for wireless companies by financial and investment firms this week: Standard & Poor’s revised its outlook on Sanmina-SCI Corp. …

LAS VEGAS-The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory released a white paper outlining the technical results it found in a multivendor test it conducted mixing data, video and Voice over …

WASHINGTON-Vonage Holding Corp. Wednesday said it hopes that a 911 Voice over Internet Protocol solution announced last week by Verizon Communications Inc. can be implemented throughout Verizon’s service territory within …

WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants the agency to address how consumers will be able to access 911 when using Voice over Internet Protocol technology. As such, he told lawmakers he …

WASHINGTON-New FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants access to 911 when using Voice over Internet Protocol to be an agenda item at the Federal Communications Commission meeting in May, Martin told …

WASHINGTON-Vonage Holding Co., the largest independent Voice over Internet Protocol provider, has solved the problem at least one customer was having when Clearwire Corp. blocked access to Vonage’s VoIP service, …

NEW YORK-Motorola Ventures acquired a stake in Asylum Telecom L.L.C., an Internet-based communications company with clients in 25 countries. The investment arm of Motorola Inc. declined to disclose terms of …

CallWave Inc. is looking to break into the wireless market with Voice over IP technology, but not exactly in the way some would expect. CallWave is not a VoIP carrier …

One consequence from the intrusion of wireless, Internet and other technologies into a space Bell telephone giants have comfortably occupied for the past century or so has to do with …

SAN DIEGO-An engineering professor and a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego have developed software that makes Wi-Fi roaming easier by reducing the hand-off time between …

WASHINGTON-VoIP providers claim customers are informed that when they dial 911 using a Voice over Internet Protocol service, it is different than calling 911 from traditional landline or wireless phones. …

WASHINGTON-America Online Inc. said Thursday it will begin offering Voice over Internet Protocol telephony, and to blunt the criticism other VoIP providers have received, it joined the National Emergency Number …

WASHINGTON-VoIP providers appearing at the National Press Club Monday disputed claims that customers are not informed that when they dial 911 using a Voice over Internet Protocol service that it …

In many respects, the clunky category known as plain old telephone service is being put out to pasture. POTS, despite still being the dominant mode of phone service, is becoming …