Bandwidth.com announces the acquisition of dash Carrier Services, a North American-based provider of tier-one emergency services and wholesale carrier voice solutions. The acquisition provides Bandwidth with a definitive competitive edge, as it will now tightly couple additional advanced services, such as E911 calling, with its core voice and SMS offerings to deliver a stronger experience for customers who would otherwise need to cobble together these services in much less efficient ways.

KeyOn announces the closing of the acquisition of certain wireless broadband networks and subscribers in East Central Texas from ERF Wireless. The acquired networks have demonstrated historically consistent revenues and currently generate positive EBITDA. It is expected that KeyOn will receive the benefits of the EBITDA immediately. KeyOn currently operates networks in Texas adjacent to some of the networks being acquired and expects to expand its presence around those networks.

This acquisition will represent the ninth acquisition of network assets and subscribers since the inception of Rural UniFi in the fourth quarter of 2009 and is the Company’s thirteenth acquisition overall.

Dialog Semiconductor is pleased to announce that it has completed a transaction to acquire SiTel Semiconductor, a leader in short-range wireless, digital cordless and VoIP technology.

Acquisition Highlights:

• Adds short-range wireless connectivity and VoIP to Dialog's existing technology portfolio
• Adds major global customers in the portable device market
• More highlights after the jump.

IP5280 Communications announces the acquisition of the VoIP and Internet services business accounts of RockyNet. The acquisition of RockyNet’s IP telephony customers increases IP5280’s customer base by over 15% and solidifies IP5280’s position as the largest business IP telephony communications provider in the Rocky Mountain region. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed; however, the acquisition is immediately accretive to IP5280 and bolsters 2011 revenue and EBITDA.

Also announced, the companies have joined forces to serve businesses’ demand for cloud-based communications through a commercial agreement which enables the companies to leverage their strengths in the joint design, delivery and operations of IP services to business customers throughout the region. Both companies are recognized innovators in IP communications, and the new partnership allows both to focus and to specialize on their strengths, while arming them with broad cloud communication functionality, such as voice, managed application services, server virtualization, security and service delivery.

Leading VoIP and Unified Communications service providers Broadvox and Cypress Communications announce the completion of their merger. The merged company will be identified as Broadvox, while retaining Cypress as a distinguished brand of the Broadvox service offerings.

This merger reflects the strategy of both companies to provide customers with high-quality, innovative and cost-effective communication services with unsurpassed customer service.

has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Qik, a provider of mobile video software and services that enable individuals to capture, instantly share and preserve great moments on video from anywhere. Qik has 60 employees, and is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has an office in Moscow, Russia. The transaction is expected to close in January 2011. Terms of the acquisition will not be disclosed.

Qik was founded in 2006 and offers innovative and flexible solutions to capture and share video with anyone across mobile devices, the web, and desktop platforms. Videos can be shared in real time or stored so moments can be viewed later, allowing for video messaging, sharing and archiving. The Qik service is available on over 200 mobile phones across the Android, iPhone, Symbian, Blackberry and Windows Mobile platforms, and comes pre-loaded on a wide variety of mobile handsets through partnerships with leading handset manufacturers and carriers.

GENBAND has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cedar Point Communications, a worldwide leader in IP switching solutions for cable providers. The transaction is expected to close in January 2011, and is subject to customary approvals and closing conditions.

By acquiring Cedar Point, GENBAND will increase its existing market-leading position in cable VoIP and will add Cedar Point’s IP switching solutions to its product portfolio. With 7.5 million lines in service globally, Cedar Point will also add major tier 1 customers to GENBAND’s broad customer base.

IA Global announces the closing acquisition of PowerDial Systems and PowerDial Services from Innovative Software Direct, a U.K. company listed on the PLUS Market.

UK–based PowerDial is an IT company providing VOIP and Asset and Annuity solutions covering all aspects of convergence, including voice, data, wireless and cable. They provide physical networks, onsite IT equipment, and applications that control the performance and integrity of networks and the data on those networks. In FY2009, PowerDial reported revenues of $2.7 million and expects to grow in FY2010 and beyond. PowerDial was acquired for 2,400,000 shares of IAGI common stock at $1.00 per share, with additional shares available for meeting certain performance metrics, for raising funds for acquisition of additional VOIP, IT or telecom companies and for the settlement of an ISD note payable.

Vantage Communications has acquired the assets, technology and customer base of Digital Ingenuity, a long established Philadelphia based VoIP Provider. In addition to furthering its nationwide leadership role with the acquisition of several internationally recognized customers, Vantage will further reinforce its presence in the Philadelphia market, adding to its ever growing customer base in the region. Digital Ingenuity customers will receive the same great service enjoyed by Vantage customers like the Drexel University Science Center, Brown and Brown, and hundreds of legal and medical practices in Philadelphia.

Broadcom has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gigle Networks, a privately-held company that develops system-on-a-chip solutions for home networking over power lines.

When combined with Broadcom's world-class portfolio of wired and wireless solutions for the home, Gigle Networks' technology will widen the breadth of Broadcom's intellectual property and enable the design of more highly integrated SoCs that allow whole-home network coverage in a wide variety of global deployment scenarios. By adding powerline to its technology portfolio, Broadcom will be able to provide additional functionality to its customers in broadband home segments including set-top box, broadband carrier access and wireless router.

M5 Networks announces its acquisition of Geckotech, the Chicago-based leader in Cisco-powered Hosted VoIP. The companies have joined forces to better service the exploding demand for business-grade hosted communications.

M5 Networks will take over all of Geckotech's staff, customers, and datacenters. Both companies are recognized innovators in the VoIP industry and have remained competitive with other telecom alternatives through exceptional management of complex technology. M5 Networks and Geckotech appeared on the 2009 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States.

Versature has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the phone service business of Octopus IP Communications Ltd. Versature's subscriber base will immediately increase by 20% with the addition of these customers.

Adding the Octopus IP client base will enable Versature to accelerate it's already impressive growth, just recently announcing 100% year-over-year subscriber growth for it's Hosted PBX Business services. Former Octopus IP customers will now have access to some exciting new features such as call queues, automated call distribution, smartphone (iPhone, Android) integration and agent login/logout, which were not available to them in the past. Versature's customer base consists of over 300 businesses from across the country.

ShoreTel announces it has acquired Agito Networks for approximately $11.4 million. The Agito solution expands ShoreTel’s vision of setting the user free to communicate on any device (desk phone, mobile phone, computer), at any location (office, home, remote) by allowing individuals to use any network (cellular or Wi-Fi), simply and cost effectively. With this acquisition, ShoreTel redefines the meaning of the “mobile worker” and changes the rules in giving mobile device users the freedom to work anywhere, even beyond the wireless network. The Agito technology puts the full power of the desk phone in the user’s pocket, arming them with some of the most sophisticated voice and UC features available today, including enterprise call-control capabilities, voice over WLAN with superior voice quality, as well as presence and location. The solution provides productivity gains for the end user and the IT staff with its heterogeneous PBX and UC support for other vendors, including Cisco, Avaya and Microsoft, as well as legacy TDM PBXs.

Broadvox and Cypress Communications announce the signing of a merger agreement. Award-winning hosted unified communications provider Cypress Communications is known for helping to define the unified communications as a service category and has been providing hosted communications to small and mid-sized businesses and enterprises for more than 25 years. As a worldwide communications leader, Broadvox has nearly a decade of experience in providing SIP Origination and Terminating services to carriers. In 2007, Broadvox began offering SMBs and SMEs various SIP Trunking products and this year expanded the offering with virtual PBX hosted services.

Qualcomm has acquired iSkoot, a San Francisco-based pioneer of providing services at the intersection of mobile and the internet. iSkoot works with leading device manufacturers and U.S. mobile operators to bring popular social networks and new internet services to mobile handsets in an intelligent manner that reduces data bandwidth usage on the network and saves battery life on phones.

iSkoot is now a subsidiary of QuIC, Qualcomm’s subsidiary focused on enabling and optimizing open source software with Qualcomm technologies, and will focus on three areas: continued support of its current customers; integrating its offerings with Qualcomm’s products; ,and developing open source data management contributions for mobile devices.