Faxing over VoIP By Chris Landry
As far as VoIP has come in Voice telephone calls, faxing over VoIP still has a lot of room to improve.
Have you ever tried to fax on your residential VoIP line? I have, and it didn’t go well. After doing some research on the subject I found out that the voice traffic and the Read more…
Yahoo has announced that its Yahoo Messenger VoIP calls are to be outsourced to Jajah.
Under the terms of the agreement, the “Phone In” and “Phone Out” service will enable consumers to make low-cost PC-to-phone and phone-to-PC voice calls over the Jajah network to more than 200 countries using Yahoo Messenger. Details of the deal between the two companies have not been disclosed. Read more…
There is no doubt that you have heard about VoIP by now. It’s made headlines and is plastered everywhere both in online and TV advertisements. Just in case you haven’t caught on to the hype yet, VoIP is the abbreviated term for Voice over Internet Protocol. Voice over Internet Protocol is basically the ability to communicate on a phone over your Internet connection. Read more…
For those who have never heard about the potential of VoIP, be prepared to radically change the way you think about your current long-distance calling plan. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is very simply, a method for taking ordinary analog audio signals and turning them into digital signals that can be sent over the Internet.
So what? Well, for those of you who are already paying a monthly fee for Read more…
Most of the world’s voice traffic is built around capturing a range of sound from 300Hz to 3,500Hz, a range pretty much set back in the days of analog and copper wiring. How come we haven’t leaped beyond it?
In the radio world, ISDN digital voice service remains popular for its ability to deliver 15kHz to 20kHz of sound before broadcast, making for a richer and clearer experience Read more…
Skype has just published a so-called “interview” with their new CEO. First, rather than face the press and public, and possibly have to answer some hard questions from people who have (miserable) experience with Skype, he chose to hide behind a pseudo-interview with his own publicity manager. Second, even with every softball question possible being served up to him, it is obvious that he still doesn’t get it. Read more…
It is estimated that one out of every 12 people in Canada is currently enjoying the benefits of VoIP. This increasing trend has been reported in a recent survey conducted by VoIPGizmos.ca, and other VoIP providers in Canada.
The demand for VoIP in Canada has not only been overwhelming for service providers, but for gadget providers as well. The number of companies, home-based business and Read more…
Vonage, already struggling from a series of setbacks, has just taken another two huge body blows — one by the U.S. Court of Appeals on behalf of Verizon, and the other by Sprint Nextel. At first glance, it looks like the old-school phone companies are not only fighting back, but winning. But is that really the case, and if it is, what does that mean for other VoIP providers.
First, the news. The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a previous decision to Read more…
VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is finally reaching out to thousands of average homes to offer huge savings in telephone costs. Already popular with the corporate world, VoIP, sometimes called Internet Telephony, IP telephony, or Internet phone, uses your computer’s broadband connection - not traditional phones lines - to make long distance, inter-state or local calls. Read more…
Using VoIP to Compete
by Kevin Werbach
Since Alexander Graham Bell’s day, businesses have bought telephone services the same way they’ve purchased electricity, janitorial functions, and water for the cooler— as packaged offerings defined by an outside provider. Sure, companies could choose from Read more…