Digium has extended the value of its Switchvox Unified Communications solution for small to mid-sized businesses by adding free support for Android devices. The Switchvox Mobile application now integrates Digium's Switchvox SMB communications solution with Android as well as iPhone and BlackBerry devices at no extra cost to customers. With the Switchvox Mobile app, Switchvox SMB customers can:

• make, receive, transfer and record calls as if they were calling from the office extension
• check their call history
• view and change call rules, such as routing and forwarding
• change their out-of-office greeting
• access the company directory and return calls via email
• use the Switchvox app from their Android-based tablet to perform tasks such as returning voice messages using email.

Telchemy announces SQlive for Android, an agent for mobile handsets that measures the user perceived quality of standards based VoIP and Videoconferencing services and DVQattest for Android, an active test agent for mobile handsets. Both SQlive and DVQattest report MOS scores and a wide range of diagnostic data, giving service providers near real time visibility of service quality.

SQlive measures the user Quality of Experience of live VoIP and Videoconferencing services running over the 3G/4G data connection of mobile handsets. SQlive uses Telchemy’s VQmon advanced performance measurement algorithms to calculate MOS scores; VQmon computes estimated Video and Audio MOS from key parameters such as the codec type, bandwidth, packet loss, loss distribution, jitter, delay and elements of content, using an advanced perceptual algorithm that models the impact of time varying quality on subjective opinion. SQlive uses a small fraction of the available processing power and memory of a typical smartphone and is able to run non-intrusively, monitoring the performance of any IP/UDP/RTP based voice, audio or video streams running to or from mobile applications installed on the handset.

Vonage is allowing customers to extend their Vonage home calling plans to any phone, including mobiles. The move allows customers to use Vonage's signature unlimited international calling plans from their mobile phones to call friends and family abroad. The new service offering -- Extensions -- is free to all Vonage customers and builds upon Vonage's history of providing unsurpassed value to customers for both domestic and international calling.

Existing customers can add any U.S. phone number as an extension by logging into their online account at www.vonage.com. The extension phone number can be a cell phone, a home phone or even an office number. Once registered, the service works like a virtual calling card. Simply dial the access number and international destination number and the call is connected over the Vonage network.

PortaOne announces the successful completion of interoperability testing between PortaOne's PortaSwitch VoIP call control/subscriber management platform and MailVision's PICO Mobile VoIP Client Management System. The compatibility is a major advancement for VoIP telephony providers and their customers, enabling easy, inexpensive VoIP calling and value-added services on smart devices including iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, Android, BlackBerry and Nokia smartphones.

MailVision's PICO Mobile Client system supports private-branded delivery of high quality VoIP telephony and SMS via WiFi and 3G data networks. The PICO mobile client is distributed, managed, configured and upgraded remotely by the Client Management System that gives telcos, NGNs, ITSPs and carriers a complete solution for managing business, residential and roaming customers.

SPIRIT DSP announced that its TeamSpirit Voice Engine Mobile is enabling HD VoIP calling on the recently launched (July 19) Viber application for Android mobile devices, allowing Viber's Android users to experience the highest call quality possible. SPIRIT's Voice Engine Mobile has been powering the extremely popular free Viber application since it first came to market in Dec 2010 for iPhone users.

The Viber application lets iPhone and Android users make free HD Viber-to-Viber calls and send messages over 3G and Wi-Fi connections, bypassing the use of any cellular voice minutes. Today, SPIRIT's Voice Engine Mobile is powering quality Viber-to-Viber free calling to more than 20 million Viber-reported registered users on both Android and iPhone devices, representing a reported call traffic volume of more than one billion minutes of calls per quarter.

MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "North American Mobile VoIP Market 2010-2014," to their collection of Telecommunications market reports.

The North American Mobile VoIP market is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 57 percent over the period of 2010-2014. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the need to reduce the cost of communication. The North American Mobile VoIP market has also been witnessing increasing competition among vendors to offer cheaper services.

Already more than 25 million Apple iPads have been sold worldwide but no iPads are voice telephony enabled when they come out of the box. This represents a huge new market segment for Coms, as its services can be provided over the iPad’s inbuilt WiFi or GSM modem.

iPad subscribers can choose a new Coms telephone number from more than 250 area codes in the UK, including principle telephone suffixes such as London or Birmingham. The service includes free advanced telephone features such as voicemail, call forwarding, voice to email and calling line identifier display, as well as low cost call plans to all international locations.

Mobile VoIP is an extension of VoIP that allows for IP-based calls to be made from a mobile handset. Voice traffic travels over the available broadband connection, whether that connection is 3G, EDGE, Wi-Fi, or GPRS. Like fixed VoIP, mobile VoIP is being adopted in both the consumer and business segments, but has only recently begun to be implemented in the business environment. Yet growth rates are strong and by the end of the forecast period in 2015, users will have grown to nearly 83 million lines/seats, according to In-Stat.

Cellcrypt has launched Cellcrypt Mobile for iPhone, a version of its encrypted voice calling application that runs on Apple devices running iOS and operates over Wi-Fi, GSM, CDMA and satellite networks.

Cellcrypt Mobile provides voice call encryption for commercially available off-the-shelf cell phones using government-certified security through an easy-to-use downloadable application that makes highly secure calling as easy as making a normal phone call. Cellcrypt’s software-only solution uses the IP data channel of cellular (2G, 3G, and 4G), Wi-Fi and satellite networks and can be deployed to personnel anywhere in the world in less than 10 minutes.

Adaptive Digital releases the newest version of AnVoice software, a VoIP Engine for Android. This version includes enhanced voice quality features such as G.722 (wideband audio) with packet loss concealment and dynamic jitter buffer. AnVoice works in a wide variety of Android-based handsets, such as DROID by Motorola, DROID 2 by Motorola, DROID X by Motorola, Nexus One, and Samsung Galaxy in both handset and speakerphone modes.

AnVoice, Adaptive Digital’s VoIP Engine for the Android is a software package that provides voice to Android. It includes all of the voice processing necessary to VoIP-enable an Android application. The core of AnVoice is an Android native-layer application that includes a complete suite of Adaptive Digital’s field-proven telephony, VoIP, and voice quality enhancement algorithms that enable developers to create toll-quality next generation mobile applications for Android/ARM users. The VoIP Engine is supplied with a sample Java application that interfaces to the VoIP Engine native application. The sample application uses the AnVoice API, which in turn uses the Java Native Interface, to setup an RTP/IP to RTP/IP VoIP connection.

Cellcrypt has launched Cellcrypt Mobile for Android, a version of its encrypted voice calling application that runs on Android devices operating over Wi-Fi, GSM and CDMA wireless networks.

Cellcrypt Mobile provides encrypted voice calling for off-the-shelf cell phones using government-certified security in an easy-to-use downloadable application that makes highly secure calling as easy as making or placing a normal phone call. It is a software-only solution that uses the IP data channel of cellular (2G, 3G, 4G), Wi-Fi and satellite networks and can be deployed to personnel anywhere in the world in as little as 10 minutes.

Ascent Telecom has acquired a major contract from VoIP Service provider, Deltathree. With this move, Ascent Telecom will bring in its long expertise with SIP clients to provide private labelled products to Deltathree. These products will be integrated with the legacy server side infrastructure (SIP Server, OSS/BSS) of Deltathree and will be launched under their brand name. This will further expand Deltathree’s reach and enable it to compete globally in markets driven by rapidly growing demand for better communication services.

This partnership will significantly expand Ascent Telecom’s presence in western markets, complementing Ascent’s strong network in the Middle-East and African region.

Voxofon now offers a native application that makes it simple and inexpensive for iPhone users to make international calls from their iPhone Contacts directory; Voxofon Call History or Contacts. International calling with Voxofon is a low-cost, high-quality, contract-free way to stay in touch with friends, family, and business associates for pennies per minute.

With Voxofon, iPhone users download a free app and are able to use their iPhone’s contacts directory to reach anyone internationally by simply selecting them – no need to enter complicated codes or dialing sequences. Also, the app displays the exact cost to that precise destination number even before the user starts the call, so users can validate the exceptionally low rates we give them every time - there is total transparency and no surprises.

SPIRIT DSP announced its TeamSpiri Voice Engine Mobile is now powering more than 15 million users of the enormously popular and free mobile VoIP Viber application.

Backed by SPIRIT's Voice Engine Mobile, Viber offers HD (wideband) VoIP free calls from iPhone and Android mobile devices. Viber's free mobile VoIP app can make calls over 3G and Wi-Fi connections, bypassing the use of any cellular voice minutes; calls are free worldwide. Unlike other VoIP services such as Skype, Viber requires no registration or need to log-in to make calls.

Voxofon announces the availability of its services to users of Hewlett Packard’s new compact Veer 4G mobile phone. Currently, VOXOFON IS THE ONLY COMPANY OFFERING A DEDICATED APPLICATION FOR AFFORDABLE INTERNATIONAL CALLING TO VEER USERS.

“Voxofon is delighted to extend our reliable, simple, and affordable international calling services to users of Hewlett Packard’s new Veer 4G mobile phone,” said Alexey Goloshubin, president of Voxofon. “The Veer-Voxofon combination is ideal for individuals on the go who want travel-sized, global communication capability. With Voxofon, Veer users can stay in touch with their contacts from anywhere and at any time, with high quality, budget-friendly international calling.”