8x8 has successfully provisioned nomadic E911 emergency calling throughout its network of domestic residential and business Packet8 subscribers.

Effective immediately, all Packet8 subscribers with a U.S. service address can now contact emergency service personnel by dialing 911 from their Packet8 phone. Previously, Packet8 offered E911 service as an optional feature to subscribers, however, earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission issued an order requiring all interconnected VoIP providers to provide E911 capabilities to their subscribers as a standard component of their service.

ARRIS announced that Mexican Multiple System Cable Operator (MSO) Cablemas has selected the ARRIS Cadant C4 CMTS to provide advanced voice (VoIP) and high-speed data service to its customers. Several fully-loaded C4 CMTS chassis have been installed and activated in Tijuana in anticipation of widespread VoIP and high speed data deployments throughout the Cablemas service area of more than 1.5 million homes passed.

SunRocket, one of the nation's leading Internet phone service providers, announced that it has equipped 96% of its customers with E-911 services, in advance of the original November 28th deadline ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last May. "E-911", short for "Enhanced 911", is a technology that allows emergency services to pinpoint the physical location and identify the call-back number of the 911-caller.

XO Communications, Inc. announced the launch of its industry-leading Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services bundle, XOptions Flex, in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

XOptions Flex is an integrated VoIP services solution that gives business customers enhanced features, functionality and value for their voice and Internet services, all in one simple package. It is the industry's first VoIP services bundle for businesses that combines unlimited local and long distance calling, dedicated Internet access and web hosting services for a flat monthly price.

Cablevision's Optimum Online and Optimum Voice have been named the top high-speed Internet and VoIP services in the nation by the readers of PC Magazine in the publication's 18th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and VoIP Digital Voice Service Providers, available on newsstands this month.

For the second year in a row, Optimum Online received the highest overall rating among all high-speed Internet providers in the nation, with top ratings in the categories of speed and reliability as well. Optimum Voice received the highest overall rating in the nation, as well as top scores in the categories of sound quality and connection reliability. As part of the survey, Optimum Online and Optimum Voice were also awarded PC Magazine 2005 Readers' Choice Awards -- the second year in a row Optimum Online received this coveted distinction.

Farmstead Telephone Group, Inc. announced that it installed its One IP Voice network service in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Company continues to roll out its One IP Voice offering in Tier 1 cities, with scheduled deployment in Dallas later this month. The Company's full-service VoIP hosted solution, when fully deployed in January of 2006, will provide local, long distance and internet service along with fully bundled hosted solutions to small and medium sized businesses. Small and medium sized businesses represent approximately 47% of gross domestic product.

JDSU announced that its Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) test and performance management service assurance solution, called NetComplete, was selected by Saskatchewan Telecommunications to help ensure reliability, efficiency and quality of service (QoS) for SaskTel's deployment of VoIP services. SaskTel is the leading full-service communications company in Saskatchewan, Canada offering complete wireline, wireless, internet and e-business solutions via a digital network. NetComplete is a triple-play service assurance solution that combines active testing and passive monitoring of VoIP equipment.

Patriot Media has deployed cable VoIP technology from Nortel to offer Patriot's Digital Phone service to more than 115,000 homes in central New Jersey. The initial deployment was accomplished in one month from shipment to in-service with the aid of Nortel Global Services.

"Adding voice capability to the Patriot Media network was a significant and critical step for us, and we presented Nortel with an extremely aggressive deployment schedule," said Jim Holanda, president and general manger, Patriot Media. "To successfully meet each of our deadlines, Nortel brought together an exceptional team of services engineers with a robust cable VoIP solution to ensure Patriot Media's Digital Phone service delivers the highest standards of quality and reliability for our customers."

Fonix Telecom, an operating subsidiary of Fonix Corp., an integrated communications carrier providing telecommunications services and value-added speech technologies, announces the availability of residential and business Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone services in Georgia, North Carolina and Utah.

High-speed Internet subscribers in these three states can purchase Fonix Telecom's Fonix Fone(TM) VoIP service starting at $16.95. Fonix Fone offers local and long distance calling, including features such as call waiting, call forwarding, E-911 and voice mail. Customers may check availability and purchase Fonix Fone products online at www.fonix.com or www.fonixtelecom.com.

CrystalVoice Communications, Inc., a leading provider of Voice over Internet software solutions, and United Online, Inc., a leading provider of consumer Internet subscription services, announced that CrystalVoice's enterprise-class Internet protocol (IP) voice communications software is the core voice quality technology within the newly launched NetZero Voice, Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) Internet phone service.

The software enables United Online to deliver quality Internet phone calling over both dial-up and broadband Internet connections, utilizing CrystalVoice's patented Acoustic QoS technology. The CrystalVoice technology continually monitors the voice flow over the Internet and is able to make real-time data and acoustic adjustments that compensate for low-bandwidth availability or variable Internet conditions. CrystalVoice allows NetZero Voice to deliver high quality calling with a fraction of the bandwidth that other solutions require.

Peer 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. announced that Vonage Canada has selected Peer 1 to provide Internet infrastructure for Vonage Canada's Internet phone service roll-out to a growing number of Canadian homes and businesses.

Vonage Canada and its parent company Vonage Holdings Corp. currently supply more than 1,000,000 customers in North America with telephone service over the Internet, providing customers with a reliable network and secure infrastructure for dependable, trustworthy service. To further expand its network, Vonage Canada sought to partner with an Internet network and infrastructure provider that could provide world-class service uptime, full redundancy and disaster recovery solutions to minimize service disruptions. As consumer acceptance of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) grows, and more people subscribe to Vonage Internet Phone Service, Peer 1 Network's scalability across numerous locations becomes even more critical.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) won't require Internet phone service providers to disconnect customers who don't have reliable 911 emergency call service (E911).

The FCC issued a notice late Monday said, "providers that have not achieved full 911 compliance by Nov. 28, will not be forced to discontinue such service to any existing customers."

At the same time, the FCC expects providers to discontinue marketing their Internet call service and accepting new customers in areas where the companies are not routing 911 calls to emergency response centers, even if the subscribers would have access to "basic" 911 service.

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General Bandwidth, a leading Voice over IP (VoIP) equipment manufacturer enabling rapid deployment and new service revenue generation over broadband networks, has been selected by Falcon Broadband, a fiber-to-the-premises, cable, and wireless service provider based in Colorado, to enable the launch of its SIP-based Voice over IP (VoIP) service offering.

Falcon Broadband is deploying this new service to customers over its own broadband networks as well as other broadband networks, using General Bandwidth's G6(R) Universal Media Gateway in conjunction with a SIP-based Next Generation call control platform. In addition, the G6 platform is being used concurrently to deliver Class 5-based Voice over IP (VoIP) services to Falcon Broadband's customers on their fiber-to-the-premises network. Future plans include using the G6 platform to deliver dynamic T1 VoIP services to businesses.

Verso Technologies, a leading provider of packet-based solutions, announced today a paid trial of Verso's NetSpective M-Class Solution to filter Skype and other peer to peer (P2P) communications with a Tier-One carrier based in China. The trial is for an initial city level deployment and part of a sale for the fourth quarter of 2005, subject to customer acceptance.

The trial marks the introduction of the NetSpective M-Class with Skype filtering technology, a first of its kind carrier-grade application filter for mobile operators offering a bandwidth optimization and content management tool specifically for the mobile carrier market.