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 will initially be rolled out in the Ironbound section of Newark, N.J., within...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-VoIP Inc. announced it will acquire Wi-Fi technology company Apex Sight L.L.C. Following the acquisition, Apex will become a wholly owned subsidiary of VoIP Inc., which will offer converged voice-over-Internet Protocol and Wi-Fi solutions.The value of the deal was not disclosed."The true...
WASHINGTON-It has been 10 years since the Federal Communications Commission took its first steps toward a nationwide wireless enhanced 911 system, and after a long struggle, important progress is being made."It is an incredibly successful and positive story particularly in contrast to the wireline...
WASHINGTON-Legislation has been introduced that would classify voice over Internet Protocol as an information service, releasing it from telecommunications regulation. "VoIP-technology that enables efficient, cost-effective delivery of voice communications over Internet broadband networks-is at a critical stage in its development, but its potential to...
First, New Mexico, the state where President Bush March 26 unveiled his broadband policy for dummies. Now, New Hampshire, the state where Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell will join John Sununu-the junior GOP senator from the Granite State-to talk up broadband this Wednesday.Broadband...
WASHINGTON-The National Taxpayers Union is leading a coalition urging the Federal Communications Commission to take a light regulatory touch on voice over Internet Protocol services."The lesson for the FCC should be clear: An explicit, firm and long-term policy of forbearance is the best and...
Wireless local area network equipment shipments increased a hefty 53 percent in 2003 from 2002 to $3.9 billion worldwide, according to a study by Forward Concepts.The report, titled, "WLAN for Enterprise and The Multimedia Home," anticipates a 21-percent compound growth rate to the $8.5...
WASHINGTON-Rural Cellular Corp. is asking Congress to extend the deadline for wireless enhanced 911 Phase II service."The solution to ensure that rural communities receive the same assurances of their E911 system as their urban counterparts would be to allow for a two-year extension of...
SAN BRUNO, Calif.-IPWireless Inc. said it has started commercial shipments of its wireless broadband solution designed for the 3.4 to 3.6 GHz spectrum bands following three months of trials. The company noted the non-line-of-sight solution can provide network speeds of up to 80 megabits...
Nextel Communications Inc. may have finally found some competition for its highly touted Direct Connect walkie-talkie service as independent testing of Alltel Corp.'s recently launched Touch2Talk service showed similar performance to what most analysts have dubbed Direct Connect's industry-standard service levels and superior performance...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday said that peer-to-peer Internet telephony services that do not touch the public-switched telephone network are information services and it began the process of regulating all voice over Internet protocol services but will tackle law enforcement access to VoIP...
WASHINGTON-The move to permanently ban Internet access taxes was thrown a curve ball on Wednesday when senators from states that had grandfathered taxes introduced a bill that would only ban the taxes for two years."The other option is the wrong policy and it...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. said it has shipped more than 50 million voice over Internet Protocol ports to more than 200 networking equipment vendors and designers.VoIP is regarded as one of the fastest-growing technologies today. "We work diligently to exceed our customers' expectations and are...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to consider the first step in whether to regulate voice over Internet protocol communications, notwithstanding widely publicized calls from law enforcement to delay the proceeding because of concerns regarding the implementation of the digital wiretap act.The...
WASHINGTON-The experience of the wireless industry as it grew from an elite service to mass-market acceptance shows both the benefits and challenges of a light regulatory touch, acknowledged FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy after giving a speech where she called for light regulation of emerging...
WASHINGTON-The experience of the wireless industry as it grew from an elite service to mass-market acceptance shows both the benefits and challenges of a light regulatory touch, acknowledged FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy after giving a speech where she called for light regulation of emerging...
WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Michael Powell used the recent example of a National Football League player who made a mobile-phone call from the end zone after a touchdown to demonstrate the impacts of the digital migration."There on the gridiron, in the middle of the game, Joe...
Industry has hailed the coming of packet technology, which has turned circuit networks into anachronisms. But the technology still has its challenges, one of which is "islands of IP." It means carriers with packet solutions do not easily connect to each other.Sonus Networks said...
Even with the promise of a tech recovery and emergence of new applications for wireless gadgets aimed at free-spending teenagers, information-starved road warriors and the rest of us, 2004 is apt to be no more than a sexed-up version of the year that was....
Ah, the sweet promises of a new technology. A recent report by the New Millennium Research Council, an organization of academics and private business experts formed in 1999 to foster policy research on telecommunications and technology, takes on issues associated with the potential of...
Voice over Internet Protocol can be delivered cheap enough that it might negate the need for universal-service subsidies, said Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission."If the goal (of universal service) is achieved, you don't need a government program," said Powell. "You don't...
Voice over Internet Protocol can be delivered cheap enough that it might negate the need for universal-service subsidies, said Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission."If the goal (of universal service) is achieved, you don't need a government program," said Powell. "You don't...
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers that receive universal-service support should submit to auditing to ensure that the subsidies they receive are being used to upgrade and improve networks in rural America, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein told reporters following his speech Thursday at the 21st Annual Institute on...
WASHINGTON-Wireless has always been regulated at the state level, so that sector should not be used as evidence of no state regulation, said James Bradford Ramsay, general counsel of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, after Dorothy Atwood, senior vice president for federal...
