KyLinTV announces the launch of its VoIP based home telephony service, “KyLinVoice” in North America, as a new standalone service. KyLinVoice, a digital home phone service, offers free domestic and international calling with its most unique feature “free In-account calls” first introduced in the VoIP industry. By bundling this unbeatable home phone service with its award winning Chinese pay-TV service, KyLinTV offers the best value to its customers through the double play service with significant savings.

Followed by a successful launch of the first Chinese IPTV content in true HD and Chinese live channels and VOD content viewing on multiple devices (“KyLinTV Everywhere”) in 2011 and 2012, KyLinTV now provides customers with KyLinVoice, a high quality local, long distance and international home phone service via VoIP. Empowered by its new robust technology platform, KyLinVoice offers tons of advanced VoIP features, including free In-network Call, Number Porting, Mobile Access and many more.

Inflow Communications has expanded its consultation, installation and follow-up support services with the acquisition of San Francisco VoIP phone system provider, Ketchum Integration.

Inflow’s expanded service offering builds on the core competencies of both companies. Ketchum Integration provides single and multi-site VoIP installation. Inflow Communications has been a provider of strategic consultative services and installation of ShoreTel VoIP business phone systems and HD video conferencing with Unified Communications integration since 1997. The new San Francisco location joins Inflow Communications’ other offices in Oregon and Washington.

“Our new partnership with Ketchum is very exciting for us,” says Inflow Communications President Travis Dillard. “With this expansion, we have improved our ability to service customers in and around San Francisco and ensure they receive the same level of support our customers in Portland and Seattle enjoy.”

Truphone announces the establishment of a Technology Center. The New Jersey center complements Truphone's United States headquarters in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park.

The technology center is led by Ed Guy, Ph.D., Vice President of Engineering, and Chris Celiberti, Vice President of Business Engineering. They and their staff of computer and communications engineers are responsible for developing innovative mobile services for the global business market. Both report to Truphone founder and Chief Technology Officer James Tagg.

Located in the Enterprise Development Center at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, the Truphone technology center initially consists of a staff of 12, many of whom are NJIT graduates.

VoX Communications has now added an unlimited Canada calling plan to its Android mobile voice app available in Google Play. VoX's Chief Marketing Officer, Barry MacCheyne, noted, "We continue to add creative and very competitive calling plans to our Android app. With both Yahoo and our UK marketing partner launching marketing campaigns, we are very excited by where we are as a company today. With summer travel and the London Olympics coming, we intend to heavily market our app in July. We are also happy that Google recently reported that more than one million new Android devices are activated each day and we predict that this number will rise to over three million units a day by 2015. People are finally seeing the attraction of mobile VoIP apps that allow them to avoid massive roaming charges when travelling and to make a Wi-Fi call from anywhere in the world. They can now use VoX without using their carrier minutes or worrying about roaming charges."

Acme Packet announces that WIND Mobile selected the Acme Packet Net-Net Session Director session border controllers to securely connect WIND's VoIP core network with other service providers. The Acme Packet Net-Net Session Director enables a secure, flexible and interoperable SIP interconnect solution for off-net voice traffic, helping reduce costly origination and termination time-division multiplexing fees.

Using SIP interconnect, WIND's calls travel to other service providers over IP, which eliminates costly TDM fees and scales the company's VoIP interconnect relationships. The Acme Packet Net-SAFE's security architecture protects WIND from denial of service attacks and network overloads with access control lists, topology hiding and dynamic rate limiting.

iTel announces completion of its IP network expansion today, boosting coverage from 940 to 1,049 service areas across Canada. With the addition of 109 new rate centres, the massive infrastructure build-out now gives iTel the largest VoIP footprint in Canada. The expansion will allow iTel to deliver new levels of high performance and redundancy, effectively meeting the increasing connectivity needs of today’s businesses.

iTel self-designed and custom-built its own network, investing heavily in infrastructure over the course of years to bring customers the best in telecommunications. By owning and operating its own network, iTel is able to provide a full suite of telecommunications products and services at below current market rates. With its continued commitment to build Canada’s fastest, most reliable network, iTel is the best choice for Canadian businesses to stay connected.

Dialogic announces that SIPxchange chose Dialogic as its core technology provider. The Dialogic ControlSwitch System and media gateway solutions provide SIPxchange with robust routing capabilities, while supporting both TDM and IP traffic. This positions SIPxchange to reliably and cost-effectively support its rapidly expanding DID origination, Toll-Free and VoIP Termination network that provides ubiquitous Local Access Transport Area coverage in the key markets of Texas.

In need of a reliable solution that would support its existing customer base while allowing for growth throughout the United States, SIPxchange chose Dialogic for its strong leadership position in class 4 switching, support for SS7, its carrier-grade Dialogic® I-Gate® 4000 PRO Media Gateway, and an extensive array of Codecs and Protocols, including SIP, MGCP, H.323, T.38, G.711, G.729, G.723, GSM. In addition, as VoIP becomes the emerging choice for business among carriers within the United States, SIPxchange needed a solution that would allow for cost-effective direct interconnection to the Legacy PSTN Tandems. Dialogic's ControlSwitch System, with its distributed media gateway architecture, provides reliability and scalability for interconnection to the PSTN.

Atlantic Tele-Network has selected the DIGITALK SBC VoIP Peering Platform to consolidate national and international call routing across its subsidiaries.

Atlantic Tele-Network has chosen to streamline the operations and management of routing and rating, with the DIGITALK VoIP Peering Session Border Controller sitting at the network core. The DIGITALK Carrier Platform will support US jurisdictional routing including local, intra and interstate routing, with local number portability look-up.

netTALK.com announced new pricing on its netTALK DUO in Canada. Across Canada, the retail price of the current netTALK DUO changes from $79.95 to $59.95 (which includes one year of service), delivering the best value in low cost communications. In addition to the lowest price on the most innovative VoIP device on the market, netTALK's calling plans are the most competitive and comprehensive, offering calling solutions that connect friends and family worldwide for a low annual price. netTALK also provides unrivaled live, trilingual technical support, seven days a week, devoted to ensuring customer satisfaction.

This development follows the addition of the affordable Enhanced Call Plans, netTALK’s flat-rate International Call Plans. The new North America Add-On is $70 (plus taxes) per year for calls to the U.S., Canada, with the addition of Mexico and Puerto Rico. The International Add-On is an unprecedented $120 (plus taxes) per year for calls to 60 additional countries. It is an offering unmatched by netTALK's competitors, such as Vonage, Skype, magicJack, or traditional phone companies.

Ooma is expanding into the Canadian market. Beginning today, Canadians can now choose to receive free crystal-clear calls to any phone number within Canada with the one-time purchase of the Ooma Telo. For Premier subscribers in the U.S., Ooma has now expanded the free-calling area to Canada as well.

The innovative Ooma Telo device plugs into a high-speed Internet connection and existing home phone to provide free phone calls and bundled features including voicemail, caller ID, call waiting and 911 service. After the initial purchase, customers pay only applicable taxes and fees. Based on an average phone bill of $40/month, the Ooma Telo pays for itself in just six months and customers will save more than $200 in the first year, more than $600 in just two years and nearly $2,000 in five years.

360networks announces the addition of 48 rate centers in the Houston LATA with population coverage of 4.5 million, to its IP Origination footprint. With this expansion 360networks provides wholesale VoIP services in six of the nation's 10 largest metropolitan areas, and 1606 rate centers covering a population base of over 80 million people across 17 states.

360networks offers a full suite of VoIP services to include IP Origination, IP Termination, and Toll Free, with a variety of pricing models and features to meet customers' unique requirements. 360networks VoIP services leverage the company's 18,500 route mile fiber optic backbone to reduce costs and minimize third party dependencies. 360networks launched its new VoIP customer portal, 360connect, in July and is currently in Beta trial for the 360connect Application Programming Interface. Customers can also bundle the company's VoIP services with its Ethernet, Private Line and IP Transit solutions for a single source provider option.

netTALK.com announces the netTALK DUO VoIP device and digital phone service is now being sold by Zellers in all of its stores across Canada. Zellers is Canada’s second-largest chain of mass merchandise discount stores, with 273 locations covering all 10 Canadian provinces.

“Having the netTALK DUO available for sale at all Zellers stores across Canada marks a major milestone in our drive into bricks n’ mortar and into this key market,” commented Anastasios ‘Takis’ Kyriakides, President and CEO of netTALK. “Canadian demand for our products is overwhelming, and we are proud to offer all Canadians the opportunity to enjoy free calls nationwide and to the US, via this easy-to-use telephone device and digital phone service.”

Internet phone service ITP VoIP is showcasing its fully featured VoIP hosted PBX plans and encouraging small business owners to take advantage of their value and comprehensive functionalities. The digital phone company offers a roster of VoIP business features with every plan.

ITP VoIP’s Call Forwarding feature, for instance, allows the user to have calls from one line forwarded to another, such as a cell phone — a capability ideal for someone who splits his or her business between home and the road.

Voxbone is expanding efforts to help service providers and enterprises in North America extend the reach of their international networking capabilities rapidly and cost-effectively.

Voxbone said it is bolstering its presence in North America with the addition of Hugh Goldstein, an experienced expert in the VoIP and telecommunications services industry, as Vice President for Business Development for North America.

The only operator of its kind with self-owned licenses and number ranges, Voxbone has experienced rapid growth since 2005. It already serves more than 300 service providers in the United States, and its global network footprint includes PoPs in Los Angeles and New York.

VoIP Innovations announced the expansion of its VoIP termination footprint and service offering for SIP providers. VoIP Innovations has been at the forefront of VoIP expansion and innovation for nearly a decade. It is the underlying carrier for several hundred Hosted PBX, Calling Card Providers, Carriers and Resellers offering VoIP service.

VoIP Innovations has a business model that is uniquely different than those of traditional carriers. VoIP Innovations offers their own termination routes as well as routes from dozens of the top US and Canadian termination carriers. In addition to aggregation benefit, VoIP Innovations large traffic volume, allows them to provides a more competitive pricing model than most clients would get direct from those carriers.