When wireless experts raved about the next big technologies a few years ago, they had Flash-OFDM and UMTS TDD in mind. Both protocols are not only making strides in wide area networks, but are beginning to interface with Wi-Fi service, creating a potential competitive...
Skype's new mobile voice over Internet Protocol offering is receiving decidedly mixed reviews.Released less than a week ago, Skype for Pocket PC 1.0 allows users of Wi-Fi-enabled personal digital assistants to make calls from any Wi-Fi hot spot. The software expands on Skype's popular...
Congress has been appropriately cautious in holding the line on how government can tax Internet access. Indeed, earlier this year President Bush extended the moratorium on taxing Internet access for another two years. The thinking is that the Internet is such a powerful information...
Wayport inc. announced it has raised $20 million through a private placement that it plans to use for strategic acquisitions and to accelerate deployments at hotels, airports, McDonald's restaurants, UPS stores and other venues.Wayport offers wireless high-speed Internet service in more than 3,000 locations,...
For all the play Voice over Internet Protocol snags in the wireless arena, a new and broader technology is lurking to gulp it up. Media over packet technology, as it is called, will also threaten to make multimedia messaging services obsolete. But its arrival...
The launch of converged mobile devices, capable of communicating over both Wi-Fi and cellular technologies, suggests Wi-Fi, long hailed by start-up companies and tech-savvy consumers, may be gaining credibility among the big names in wireless.The launch of such integrated devices could also put investor...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday morning gutted a bill that attempted to pre-empt states from imposing access charges and universal service fees on Voice over Internet Protocol services.Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) offered an amendment that he described as reserving the status quo for states....
WASHINGTON-Just days before the Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to consider the VoIP Regulatory Freedom Act of 2004, public-safety officials were urged Thursday by their national association to tell lawmakers to change the bill or vote it down."The absence of any form of regulatory...
WASHINGTON-New legislation introduced by Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.) would give federal regulators unfettered oversight of Voice-over-Internet-Protocol applications, while requiring service providers to compensate Bell telephone giants for connections and preserving existing social programs and emergency calling for consumers.The Advanced Internet...
WASHINGTON-New legislation introduced by Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.) would give federal regulators unfettered oversight of Voice-over-Internet-Protocol applications, while requiring service providers to compensate Bell telephone giants for connections and preserving existing social programs and emergency calling for consumers.The Advanced Internet...
WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice would like Congress to re-examine the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 but cannot say why revisions are needed, according to testimony delivered Wednesday at a hearing on Voice over Internet Protocol held by the Senate Commerce Committee."We...
Described by its supporters as disruptive, MIMO (multiple in, multiple out) technology has spawned a triangle of love and suspicion.Airgo Networks, which claims to have pioneered the idea of MIMO as we currently know it, said it is pleased the industry is embracing the...
WASHINGTON-Wireless Voice over Internet Protocol is here with the advent of Qualcomm Inc.'s CDMA2000 1x EV-DO service as deployed by Verizon Wireless, said Brooke Schulz, vice president of corporate communications for Vonage Corp.Schulz demonstrated a Vonage VoIP call via EV-DO technology, brand-named Broadband Access,...
WASHINGTON-Wireless Voice over Internet Protocol is here with the advent of Qualcomm Inc.'s CDMA2000 1x EV-DO service as deployed by Verizon Wireless, said Brooke Schulz, vice president of corporate communications for Vonage Corp.Schulz demonstrated a Vonage VoIP call via EV-DO technology, brand-named Broadband Access,...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-VoIP Inc. has filed a patent application titled "Method and System for Back-up of Voice Over IP Emergency Calls," for a technological process for a specific coding scheme to redirect certain call types based on emergency dialing patterns like 911.The number pattern...
LEVITTOWN, Pa.-FTS Wireless Inc., which operates retail wireless locations that sell wireless services and operate Wi-Fi hot spots, said it will begin offering bundled Wi-Fi Internet service combined with Voice-over-Internet Protocol telephony service starting at $40 per month."After successfully testing VoIP service provided by...
The departments of Defense and Homeland Security continue to be vital customers for the satellite sector. Satellite owners and operators may profit from the ramped-up need for their services, but heavy cost burdens continue to plague their business plans. However, other companies that take...
PHILADELPHIA-Cotran Telecommunications L.L.C. said it is gearing up to introduce COTeLtalker110, which cell-phone users can attach to the Internet to allow any cell phone to make long-distance and international calls though a voice-over-IP network.With COTeLtalker 110, mobile-phone users will save as much a $4.49...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Annual shipments for WiMAX chipsets will exceed $2.2 billion in 2008, according to new research from West Technology Research Solutions L.L.C."WiMAX is seen by many as an indicator and also a driver in the market for VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) applications....
BOCA RATON, Fla.-i2Telecom International Inc. has developed a patent-pending technology that allows cellular bridging to Voice-over-Internet Protocol networks.The solution allows cellular customers to make national and international calls on their current cell phones via VoIP, resulting in dramatic cost savings. According to i2Telecom, calls...
I awoke in a panic the other night. Was I dreaming, or is it really true that the wireless industry has been slipping? Where to find the truth? Ah, I could find the answer in acronyms. With every new technology developed, for every new...
DALLAS-Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Inc., Freescale Semiconductor has made a series of chip announcements covering areas such as voice over Internet Protocol and system on a chip.The company said it has extended its PowerQUICC processor-based VOIP solutions known as the MSC11x...
NEWARK, N.J.-Net2Phone and Navini Networks announced they will partner to deliver Net2Phone's VoiceLine voice-over-IP broadband services over Navini's wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) wireless broadband infrastructure."Wireless metropolitan area networks are clearly the next frontier for Net2Phone, as we extend our reach beyond the wired...
NEWARK, N.J.-IDT Corp. said it will deploy commercial Wi-Fi phone service in the United States using its own network and infrastructure and Net2Phone's voice-over-Internet Protocol platform for routing calls. The service initially will be rolled out in the Ironbound section of Newark, N.J., within...
