Nortel has signed a contract with wireless broadband pioneer Clearwire to deliver a complete carrier VoIP solution to provide a residential VoIP service to Clearwire's U.S. customers. Nortel will also provide services to Clearwire from its Global Services portfolio, including network engineering, multi-vendor network integration, network deployment and support.

Clearwire's Internet Phone Service is currently available in 37 of the company's 46 markets in the U.S. and works with their customers' existing high-speed Internet access to provide unlimited local and long-distance calling from a regular telephone. The Nortel solution will provide end-to-end carrier VoIP infrastructure for Clearwire's Internet Phone Service, while laying the foundation for Clearwire to easily evolve their network to potentially deliver converged fixed and mobile services.

Detroit is the first area in the nation where AT&T U-verse Voice is available. AT&T U-verse Voice is a digital voice service delivered over the AT&T U-verse Internet Protocol network. The company began a controlled launch in late December and has since expanded the service's availability. The service will continue to expand to more local customers and additional markets in 2008.

AT&T U-verse Voice completes the company's IP triple play. With U-verse Voice, U-verse customers receive all the benefits of having advanced video, broadband, voice and wireless services from a single provider, and having their services work together for a new level of integration, functionality and convenience.

Interlink Communication Systems is now a distributor for snom. snom phones will now be available to Interlink’s North American network of Value Added Resellers, Network Service Providers and Systems Integrators.

Interlink will distribute snom’s full line of VoIP telephones including the snom 300 series of IP phones, as well as the new IP DECT phone for VoIP users, the snom m3. The snom m3 provides an optimal VoIP communication system for the home office, SMB or enterprise. snom provides customers with feature-rich business telephones that offer plug-and-play integration into any SIP-based telephony platform.

TelExtreme will be offering its first VoIP services within the United States by January 31st. The decision to enter the fast-growing U.S. VoIP market is part of a growth initiative aimed at increasing the company's revenues to over $60 million for 2008.

TelExtreme intends to reproduce in the U.S. the very sales/marketing model that has generated great success in overseas markets, where sales rose from $30.1 million in 2006 to a projected $40+ million in 2007, with the increase being primarily attributable to penetration into the Mexican and Latin American markets. In addition to its projected U.S. expansion, the company anticipates growth opportunities stemming from the organic increase of consumer interest in VoIP-based telephone services.

RCN announces the launch of its new Starpower Internet Phone Service. RCN’s Starpower Internet Phone Service is powered by the Hosted Consumer VoIP Solution of deltathree. RCN’s Starpower Internet Phone Service is a VoIP solution that provides new competitive choice for phone users who may not be on the RCN network or within its service area, but who have a high-speed data connection from a broadband service provider. The service is an ideal option for consumers who only have mobile phone service but would like an Internet phone for a second line, fax, home office, or as an alternative to traditional service. Starpower will supplement RCN’s reliable, circuit-switched and digital phone service using VoIP last mile, which will expand RCN’s broadbased marketing capabilities.

Interactive Intelligence opens a regional office in Denver to better support its growing number of customers migrating VoIP. Specializing in developing high-end IP-based telecommunications applications for mid-size and large contact centers and enterprises. Interactive Intelligence has been serving Colorado businesses since it released its first software product in 1997.

Interactive Intelligence offers these businesses an “all-in-one” VoIP-based software suite designed to deliver contact center automation, enterprise IP telephony and messaging capabilities minus the cost and complexity introduced by product portfolio vendors.

360networks is expanding coverage into the state of Nebraska. This expansion will add 23 new rate centers serving Omaha and other cities throughout the eastern half of the state.

With the addition of Nebraska, 360networks now covers 682 rate centers across 13 western states with population coverage of over 30 million. The increased coverage will help facilitate the deployment of consumer and enterprise VoIP services throughout the state of Nebraska. 360's VoIP offering includes high quality, low cost wholesale origination and termination VoIP services.

Acme Packet announces three service provider customers in the Caribbean and Latin America are deploying its Net-Net session border controllers: Amzak International, IPLAN Telecomunicaciones and WorldNet Telecommunications. Acme Packet SBCs are now helping service providers in 18 countries throughout the region control their IP network borders, enabling their customers to fully leverage a wide range of trusted, first-class IP communications.

These new customers have deployed Acme Packet’s Net-Net SBCs to support two primary applications: enterprise hosted voice services and VoIP peering between service providers. With Acme Packet’s SBCs deployed, Amzak, IPLAN and WorldNet benefit from Acme Packet’s Net-SAFE® architecture, which provides protection to the SBCs themselves, softswitches and other elements of the service delivery infrastructure, with access control, topology hiding and denial of service attack protection.

Cordia has begun to sell unlimited bundle plans at $29.95. With service offerings in 17 states this new pricing will be one of the most aggressive in the wireline industry. This service, available in most areas, offers the consumer an unlimited local and long distance bundled service plan which also includes their local line, call waiting, caller ID and 3-way calling.

Ribbit unveils a new platform for developing telephony services and a new business model for serving the new global telephony market. In addition, the company formally announced a diverse team of technologists, business leaders and a community of third-party developers that it has recruited over the past two years to execute on its mission.

The company also unveiled some of the first applications from its partner and 600-plus developer community, including an integration with salesforce.com. The first applications illustrate the kind of innovation that the company hopes to deliver to both the consumer and business marketplace.

Phone.com commences operations with the introduction of IP-based phone services targeting entrepreneurs and households. Designed as a one-stop portal for communications services, Phone.com features new Virtual Office and Home Phone offerings with plans starting at $9.88 per month. The company is also in the developmental stages of several additional communications technologies and anticipates adding new products in the first half of 2008.

Phone.com products provide the ability to customize a variety of phone services for professional or personal use, and to modify their operations as needed via the user-friendly web interface or customer service agents.

Demand for VoIP in Canada is at all time high according to the recent report conducted by VoIPGizmos.ca and other VoIP providers in Canada. It estimates that 1 out of every 12 Canadian is currently enjoying the benefits of VoIP. This increasing trend may not prove surprising considering the benefits of this feature-rich technology.

Various providers of VoIP gadgets and solutions in Canada have witnessed this overwhelming increase in demand for VoIP services in the country. "The demand for VoIP has not only been overwhelming for service providers, but for gadget providers as well. We are already way past our sales target for the year, and the trend is very promising. The number of companies, home-based business and ordinary individuals coming to us for their VoIP needs have grown substantially," says VoIPGizmos.ca founder Alex Kovalenko.

NCISP has launched VoIP and fiber broadband services, adding to the company's long list of business-oriented Internet services, which also include low-cost static IP DSL, inexpensive T1s, Web hosting, and server collocation. NCISP VoIP provides an alternative to expensive telephone company phone services. NCISP can actually replace ATT, Embarq or Verizon lines for a fraction of the cost.

For example, businesses can get a phone line, all the features, such as Auto Attendant, caller ID, voicemail, ACD (queues) groups, etc., and unlimited local and long distance calling for as little as $40.00 per month ($20 residential). Unlimited VoIP services cost even less when the customer has NCISP DSL or some other type of NCISP broadband. The company's "Broadband+ VoIP" product provides broadband, phone service and unlimited long distance starting at $59 per month. There are also multiple line discounts.

deltathree will be offering Canadian inbound phone numbers, otherwise known as direct inward dialing (DID) numbers, to its reseller, service provider and direct-to-consumer clients. deltathree's ability to provide 9-1-1 services in Canada was made possible by its long-standing partnership with Intrado, the core provider of North America's 9-1-1 emergency communications network. Per the regulations of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, all VoIP subscribers in the country with the ability to make and receive calls must be equipped with 9-1-1 service. Therefore, with this new 9-1-1 capability deltathree is able to expand its inbound calling offers to include Canada.

Global Crossing has once again broadened the scope and reach of its VoIP services for customers around the world by extending its Global Crossing VoIP Local Service to 16 major metropolitan cities in Mexico and nearly 400 additional cities in the United States. The addition of Mexico brings to 21 the total number of countries worldwide where the service is offered. In the U.S., the company expanded availability of VoIP Local Service to nearly 400 additional cities, including Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and Tucson, bringing that total to more than 1,400 nationwide.