Actiontec Electronics announced a new distributor agreement for its VoSKY family of Skype-certified products with Azlan, the Enterprise business unit of Tech Data Europe, serving resellers throughout the UK and Ireland. The agreement covers VoSKY Exchange, the first solution that enables businesses to take advantage of Skype's Internet phone service, as well as three other VoSKY products for making Skype calls from home phones, mobile phones, and hands-free speakerphones.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of France Telecom SA: Company Analysis to their offering.

This report starts with an overview of France Telecom, its organizational structure, and an assessment of its various businesses. It traces the growth of the company and how it has changed over the years. It also includes a critical analysis of France Telecom within the SWOT framework and a summary of its financial performance.

The 2006 Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Service Innovation in the audio conferencing service provider market has been awarded to MeetingZone Limited, in recognition of its application of information systems technology to support innovative customer services.

One of the largest independent, UK-owned conferencing service providers, MeetingZone focuses on the delivery of high-quality conferencing solutions, tailored specifically to meet customers' needs. The company aims to use the principles of mass customisation, combined with the application of new technologies to deliver flexible solutions as well as consistent high levels of service at very competitive prices.

Vistula Communications Services, Inc., a global supplier of flexible and reliable Voice over Internet Protocol ("VoIP") services to major telecommunications carriers and Internet service providers, announced that Telstra Europe has officially launched their V-Cube-based Hosted IP- PBX Service across the UK.

Home is set to become the new office as new broadband technology means calls can be made and received from your business number wherever you set up a desk, says internet phone company VoIP Traders.

With the number of teleworkers having more than doubled in the past eight years thanks to email and internet access, VoIP Traders predicts the figures will rise higher still as the broadband revolution steps up a gear with the use of internet phones or VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).

Sonus Networks, Inc., a leading supplier of service provider Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions, and NVision Group, a market-leading Russian system integrator, announced that the two companies have entered into a cooperative marketing and teaming agreement, whereby NVision Group will promote Sonus' industry-leading IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-ready architecture and work with Sonus to pursue opportunities with service providers throughout Russia and the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Cedar Point Communications, the leader in integrated VoIP switching technologies for the cable industry, announced that it has selected a new joint venture by two of Europe's leading cable networking companies to support international deployments of Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed) Media Switching System.

TelTel, a provider of SIP-based global Internet telephony services, announced that Peer Telecom is using TelTel's SVNO (SIP Virtual Network Operator) program to deliver its Eggee VoIP telephony service in France. The SVNO program provides Peer Telecom with a whole suite of solutions including a managed network, branded hardware devices, and softphone client, enabling rapid deployment of global Internet telephony based on the open Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

BroadSoft Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, announced that Russian national operator RTComm, has selected BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform to deliver the first hosted PBX services to the Russian marketplace. RTComm will use the BroadWorks platform to assist service providers in opening up a new market for affordable IP based corporate triple-play applications and hosted PBX services.

RTComm will offer BroadWorks' hosted PBX applications to service providers as part of its corporate over IP (CoIP) product, helping them to deliver a complete suite of enhanced PBX functionality over an IP connection to their customers. Correspondingly, end-users will benefit from flexible communications capability throughout the enterprise and access to true business-grade triple-play services at highly economical rates.

BroadSoft Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, announced that VoIP Solutions, the provider of cutting-edge VoIP technology to the Irish market, has selected the BroadWorks application platform to complete its voice over IP product portfolio, enabling the delivery of turnkey telephony solutions to residential and small and medium sized enterprise customers across Ireland.

BroadSoft Inc, the leading provider of VoIP application software, announced that it is working with Romania's Atlas Telecom to deliver residential VoIP over a fixed-wireless telecoms network using DECT cordless technology. The innovative combination of DECT fixed-wireless infrastructure and the BroadWorks VoIP application platform will enable customers across the country to experience next generation call functionality using proven and affordable technology.

Sonus Networks, Inc., a leading supplier of service provider Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions, announced that Telio, the largest and fastest growing access independent VoIP provider in Europe, has selected Sonus' industry-leading IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-ready solutions as the foundation for its next generation IP-based voice network. Telio, which offers primary line residential services throughout Europe, selected Sonus because of its ability to meet European-specific signaling requirements and to support carrier-grade reliability and scalability for Telio's plug-and-play IP-based voice service, which currently carries more than 100 million minutes of voice traffic per month.

Ruckus Wireless, the innovator of smart Wi-Fi technology, announced that Maxisat Ltd., a leading Finnish triple play provider, has selected the Ruckus Wireless smart Wi-Fi system to solve the growing problem of how to reliably distribute digital voice, video and data services throughout subscriber homes.

The Ruckus MediaFlex system is an advanced in-home multimedia solution and the first developed to enable the reliable transmission of digital multimedia content using standard 802.11g Wi-Fi technology.

SPIRIT DSP, the world's leading provider of embedded voice and communication software products, has released the latest edition of its TeamSpirit Mobile software solution - the fastest voice engine running on mobile devices. TeamSpirit Mobile provides a Voice Engine Software Development Kit (SDK) that incorporates complete voice engine functionality of a softphone for mobile devices.

LignUp Corporation, a leading provider of converged communications solutions, announced the general availability of the FastLign managed services offerings for hosted telephony service providers. FastLign is an industry alliance founded by LignUp, NexTone and other industry leaders, to accelerate the adoption of IP telephony services by allowing service providers to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver competitive services to the marketplace.