Fonix Telecom, a subsidiary of Fonix Corp., an integrated telecommunications provider, and Lucent Technologies today announced the completion of Fonix's next generation IP network. Fonix Telecom began delivering new VoIP services, known as Fonix Fone(tm), to customers across the new infrastructure earlier this month.

Tekelec, a leading developer of telecommunications products for next-generation fixed, mobile and packet networks, today announced that UK telecommunication systems provider, Voicenet Solutions, is deploying its Voice over IP (VoIP) service over the Tekelec 6000 platform. The Tekelec 6000 VoIP Application Server will provide Voicenet Solutions with a fast path to IP Centrex service delivery by providing IP telephony customers with easily accessible, enhanced communication solutions.

Terayon Communication Systems, Inc., a leading provider of digital networking applications and home access solutions, is showing several of its latest Home Access solutions at Texas Instruments Incorporated 'Toy Tour,' a multi-city and multi-nation traveling tour which highlights the latest, most innovative consumer electronics based on TI technology. The tour is in San Francisco this week, after a successful event in New York, and will move on to major cities in Europe and Asia in September and October.

Cable One, a leading rural market cable operator in the United States, has selected Nortel as its primary VoIP technology and professional services provider. Cable One plans to launch full-featured primary line telephony services in up to 45 markets throughout the midwestern, southern and western United States.

UTStarcom, Inc., a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, today announced a partnership with Mude, one of the largest solutions distributors in the communication, security and data storage segments in Brazil. The two companies are partnering to deliver triple play solutions -- high-speed data, Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and IPTV services -- to the Brazilian telecom market.

AT&T announced today that it has won a $7.5 million networking contract with St. Louis-based Graybar, a leader in the distribution of high-quality electrical, telecommunications and networking products, and an expert provider of related supply chain management and logistic services. The three-year contract expands a longstanding relationship between the two companies.

Empirix Inc., the industry's leading supplier of VoIP testing systems, today announced that Buckeye TeleSystem(R)., a fiber- and cable-based competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) based in Toledo, Ohio, has selected the Hammer XMS(TM) monitoring system to support its VoIP service deployments.

SBC Communications Inc. today announced a new contract to deliver a hosted Voice over IP (VoIP) network to San Diego, Calif.-based NCE Computer Group, a data-storage service and provider of integrated storage solutions.

Bivio Networks(TM), a leading supplier of next-generation application-oriented networking platforms, today announced the launch of the Bivio 500(TM), a new advanced network appliance designed from the ground up to enable wire-speed execution of Linux network applications at multi-Gigabit speeds. With the Bivio 500, Bivio continues to reshape the networking landscape by allowing Linux network applications to entrench themselves in the emerging multi-Gigabit network infrastructure as a de-facto standard, bringing the benefits of open architectures to a market that has been traditionally constricted by proprietary solutions.

Datameg Corporation today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, North Electric Company, Inc., changed its name to QoVox Corporation (www.qovox.com) to better reflect its core business of helping service providers assure the quality of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and other next generation IP-based services. This announcement is another in a series of milestones marking Datameg's aggressive moves to create a top flight organization and build-out and deliver an integrated suite of tools and services for VoIP service management for service providers worldwide.

Pannaway Technologies, Inc., designers and developers of converged broadband voice, video and data platforms, today announced that Canadian-based Bruce Municipal Telephone System (BMTS/BMI) has selected their IP-enabled Service Convergence Network (SCN(TM)) solution to deliver next-generation broadband services to their customer base of 15,000 existing telecom subscribers. The deal marks an important first step into the Canadian market for Pannaway, whose patent-pending Primary Line VoIP(SM) functionality will enable customers such as BMTS/BMI to adhere to recent Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) legislation which mandates that all VoIP deployments possess the ability to offer emergency 911 services comparable to incumbent carriers.

The subscriber base of Voice over IP (Internet Protocol) services worldwide will remain small compared to the numbers of conventional fixed and mobile phone customers, even by 2010. But in terms of relative growth, VoIP is -- and will remain -- a dynamic market. And the most successful business model for VoIP services uses its strengths to add value to existing broadband subscriptions.

Brightpoint, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Skype Technologies S.A. ("Skype"), the Global Internet Telephony Company(TM), under which Brightpoint will act as an authorized distributor of Skype products and services.

CommPartners, an IP-based network operator and telephony services and solutions provider, today announced the expansion of its Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network coverage area to include over 92% of the calling public in the domestic U.S., including Hawaii. With today's announcement, CommPartners will offer the broadest IP-based network coverage to deliver residential, SMB and enterprise hosted VoIP services with over 5,000 rate centers in the domestic U.S.

AT&T announced today that it has introduced an enhanced tool for AT&T CallVantage® Service users that will improve their ability to self-install the popular broadband phone service for the first time, provision a new telephone adapter, or troubleshoot problems on their account.