Voxpath Networks announces that it has reached agreements with several Houston-based telecommunications and IT providers to distribute Harmonica Complete services to small businesses throughout the Greater Houston market.

Harmonica Complete provides customers with complete end-to-end communications services, including the phone system, expanded local, long distance and international phone service, and broadband access services. Harmonica Complete offers a full range of enhanced small business features, such as advanced voice mail, group call routing, “Find Me” capabilities, music on hold, configurable line and extension status keys, multi-location support, and virtual receptionist. These elements are bundled into a single-source solution to give small businesses a comprehensive, robust communications system for a fixed monthly fee. In addition, Harmonica Complete customers enjoy a highly efficient and user-friendly system, and do not have to worry about managing or maintaining complex premise-based communications systems, or trying to decipher complicated monthly phone bills.

AccessLine, announced the availability of its new retail version of SmartVoice Service for business in Virginia. SmartVoice, the company’s hosted VoIP service that delivers the benefits of advanced business telephone service at a fraction of the cost, is specifically designed and built for Small and Medium Businesses and offers as much as 50 percent savings over traditional business phone service rates. Combining local, long distance, and toll free phone service with no need for the purchase of any phone equipment, AccessLine’s SmartVoice Service delivers savings while making it easy for customers to transition from their current legacy phone service.

GlobeTel Communications Corp. announces that it has successfully built and deployed a HotZone 4010-based wireless broadband network within a city northeast of Mexico City, Mexico, and has begun to service customers through the network.

“The Company began offering Internet services on the network in conjunction with an introductory promotion to residential users within the network’s cloud,” stated Peter Khoury, Chief Executive Officer of GlobeTel Communications. “We experienced a favorable response rate and we are optimistic that these products and services will continue to be well-received through the extension of this network, and other HotZone-based networks in Mexico.”

Level 3 Communications' Wholesale Markets Group announces that it has expanded its relationship with BendBroadband to serve as the underlying service provider for BendBroadband's new Business Voice Service offering.

Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, BendBroadband, an Oregon-based cable operator, will use the Level 3 VoIP Enhanced Local service to provide small and medium-sized businesses with a new, cost-effective solution for local and long-distance calling. BendBroadband Business Phone will include enhanced voicemail, E-911 service and popular calling features such as caller ID, call waiting and 3-way calling.

ScanSafe, announces that Dan Nadir, vice president of product strategy, will be speaking on the Application & Content Security panel at the upcoming Network World IT Roadmap event in San Francisco on November 30.

The Application & Content Security panel will be led by Andreas Antonopoulos, senior vice president and founding partner, Nemertes Research and will focus on topics including VoIP and wireless security, the high cost of spyware, application security and information protection. Nadir will discuss the benefits of Web Security-as-a-Service in a constantly evolving threat landscape. He will also examine how Paul Davril and Morehead Memorial Hospital leveraged ScanSafe’s Web Security-as-a-Service to defeat Web-based malware and control Internet usage.

Atreus Systems, announced that Cincinnati Bell, has successfully deployed Atreus' IP Service Provisioning Solution to automate the provisioning and management of its business trunking service.

Currently in production, Atreus' IP Provisioning Solution is empowering Cincinnati Bell to deliver business voice services to enterprises at varying stages of IP deployment, ranging from those customers looking to leverage their existing PBX equipment to those requiring a fully-featured hosted VoIP service. By streamlining and simplifying the provisioning process, Cincinnati Bell will sign up new customers quickly and cost effectively while generating significant follow-on revenue by automating the delivery of a wide variety of value-added IP services from a single system. The Atreus solution enables Cincinnati Bell to provision a comprehensive range of VoIP applications, including hosted PBX and business trunking, while supporting their growing requirements for converged voice, video, and data services. The Atreus solution automates the provisioning and activation of advanced applications with the reliability, scalability and standards-based capabilities required to deliver a carrier-class service.

Pembina Trails, a major school division in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada), announced the launch of the fastest, most powerful fiber optic educational network in Canada.

The new 'dark fiber' network consists of 44 kms (27.3 miles) of fiber optic cable, providing virtually unlimited bandwidth, and the introduction of Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, over this network has the potential to provide savings of some $200,000 per year.

Students now have access to information at a speed 850 times faster than at home with DSL or cable Internet service, and the potential to link with other fiber optic networks at libraries and universities around the world. Robust security features are integrated, and the entire network is maintained in-house.

VoX Communications Corp., announced the launch of an Hispanic-targeted advertising campaign promoting the availability of Puerto Rico virtual telephone numbers. VoX is the first to offer customers in the 50 U.S. states the ability to add a Puerto Rico telephone number to any U.S.-based VoX plan for just $4.95 per month, allowing friends and family living in Puerto Rico to call them on a local number rather than a long distance number.

VoIP, Inc., a leading provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications solutions for service providers, resellers and consumers, announced that its carrier subsidiary, Volo Communications, has completed the initial phase of its nationwide network infrastructure service, with area expansion through the addition of locations in New York, Florida, Massachusetts and Georgia. The expansion will allow the Company to service over fifty million households and business subscriber lines in those areas.

Vonage America Inc., a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading Internet telephony provider, announced that over 91% of its U.S. subscriber lines are now equipped with Enhanced 911 (E911) service -- a feature that automatically associates a physical address with the calling party's telephone number.

In less than 30 days, Vonage has equipped an additional 80 locally-run emergency call centers across the U.S. with E911 -- bringing the total number of calling centers with emergency 911 service to over 5900.

Citynet has expanded its Digital Phone service to southern West Virginia after successfully introducing it over the summer to the Charleston area, as well as in Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Digital Phone can cut in half many West Virginians' monthly phone bills by offering residential customers both local and long-distance service for $24.95 a month using proven technology that has already benefited Citynet's business customers.

"This type of phone service has been widely available in other parts of the United States and other nations, but until recently, its availability in West Virginia and parts of neighboring states has been limited," Citynet President Jim Martin said. "Citynet is out to change that by making Digital Phone service available to most areas in those four states."

TurboPhone is a new company in the telecommunications industry with a unique approach to marketing their services.

"I’ve got a great deal on my phone service, you ought to take a look at it too", are the words Gabe Castillo, President of TurboPhone Communications, hopes to hear thousands of satisfied customers say over the next few months.

TurboPhone Communications, LLC announced the official launch of their Digital Telephone service, available throughout the US and Canada.

Digital telephony, also known as Broadband or Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) is a rapidly growing market. There are currently, an estimated 6 million VoIP subscribers in the US and that number is expected to grow to over 25 million in the next 5 years.

Far Reach Technologies announced that it will be launching mobile VoIP and Broadband services in 76 markets across 8 states in the US. The networks and handsets will be produced by xG Technology and the services will be branded as xMax. “xG’s technology is the greatest technical advance in RF communications in 100 years. The xG systems will enable us to offer in-demand broadband services at lower rates, and a path to 4G services in 2008,” said Russ White, president of Far Reach Technologies. The first system launch will occur in March, 2007 in Volusia County, Florida. The additional launches will take place in the second quarter of 2007. Far Reach’s deployment has been funded with $100 million by the multi-billion dollar US based Phoenix Foundation and underwritten by a major UK based bank.

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43156) has announced the addition of Forecasting the Commercial Impact of Wireless VoIP in the USA and Western Europe to their offering.

Forecasting the Commercial Impact of Wireless VoIP in the USA and Western Europe answers your key questions:

The Power of VoIP Seminar Series begins on October 19 in Philadelphia. "Can VoIP really lower business costs?" will explain the financial impact, technology and communications efficiencies of Voice over IP and is ideal for finance and IT executives.

Lyrio co-founder Paul Sewards said, "VoIP promises to open up exciting opportunities for businesses from improved service offerings to lowered operational costs. With The Power of VoIP Seminar Series, our goal is to help business decision-makers navigate through the maze of myths, contradictions and vendor messages."