March 13-14, 2007
Budapest, Hungary

The industry-leading Global VoIP Strategies event is back.

VoIP has finally reached the mainstream and is revolutionising the telecommunications industry. With recent developments in wireless VoIP and VoIP enabled mobile handsets driving the market in new directions, the forthcoming event will feature presentations, case studies and panel discussions covering the latest challenges in VoIP including:

March 26-29, 2007
Arabella Sheraton Grand Hotel, Munich, Germany

WiMAX faces current challenges from 3G/HSPA and UMTS-TDD and future threats from 3GPP’s LTE for MIMO-OFDM based UMTS wireless broadband which is already optimised for voice and video. Can WiMAX service providers sufficiently develop their markets and solve the QoS challenges to delivering voice and video in the face of these existing and evolving threats? Find out at WiMAX 2007.

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.”

Nicer Canada Corp., announced that it has entered into formal discussions to acquire Yoda Communications, Inc. a privately held company incorporated under the laws of Taiwan, Republic of China.

Yoda is a leading supplier of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Customer Premises Equipment (such as Phone Adapter, Gateways and Intellectual Property (IP) handsets) throughout Europe and Asia. Complementary to Nicer's enterprise and Telco grade IP phone switches, the combination of Nicer and Yoda will provide customers a full set of vertical VOIP solutions for creating, managing and delivering compelling voice over IP devices and applications. Together, the two companies will meet a wider set of customer needs and have a significantly greater opportunity to grow into new markets, particularly in the mobile and carrier segments.

Symmetricom, Inc. will be presenting a free TechThink Webinar entitled “Ensuring QoS Through Timing in Next-Generation Networks: The Impact of Timing and Real Time Applications on Carrier Infrastructure” along with the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solution (ATIS) on Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST. The ATIS TechThink Webinar is the second in a series of three precise timing and synchronization Webinars and will focus on precise timing and synchronization issues for specific applications such as IPTV, VoIP, online gaming and other Next-Generation Network services.

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.

IDT’s TúYo Mobile announced the launch of a new holiday season promotion. Starting Friday, November 24, 2006 and ending Sunday, January 31, 2007, TúYo Mobile will add five dollars of free talk time to new customer account balances once each week with the purchase and use of a new phone. Customers can talk up to 490 minutes for free over the ten-week holiday program. Additionally, customers can choose to apply their free five-dollar credit towards downloading content. TúYo Mobile is IDT Telecom’s prepaid wireless service designed to meet the mobile calling needs of U.S. Hispanics. IDT Telecom is a subsidiary of IDT Corporation an international telecommunications and technology company.

“Reaching out to family and friends can become very expensive as we tend to make more calls during the holiday season,” said Louis Ferraro, General Manager of TúYo Mobile. “That’s why now is the best time to become a TúYo Mobile customer to take advantage of the great savings.”

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.

VocalTec Communications, announces that it will be presenting its suite of VoIP/NGN solutions at ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong. Comprised of trunking, peering, access gateway, and service delivery solutions, VocalTec provides highly interoperable solutions for the smooth and flexible deployment of next-generation networks (NGNs).

VocalTec will present its NGN solutions in Hall 9, booth #9047 and together with IBM, in Hall 2, booth #2018.

Nokia announces that users of the Nokia N80 Internet Edition will have easy access to low-cost calls over the Internet with SIPphone's Gizmo Voice over IP (VoIP) services. The Nokia N80 Internet Edition is optimized for SIP-based Internet calls, and now Nokia and SIPphone have worked together to create an easy way to configure and make calls using Gizmo VoIP directly from your multimedia computer.

"Mobilizing the Internet is a key focus for Nokia and I'm excited to see how a multimedia computer like the Nokia N80 Internet Edition can provide people with the convenience of Internet calling," said Ralph Eric Kunz, Vice President, Multimedia, at Nokia. "Our collaboration with SIPphone makes Internet calling easy, plus our open VoIP platform allows for any SIP-based VoIP provider to incorporate their services in our device architecture, giving consumers the best of the Internet world."

Nokia N80 Internet Edition users download the free Gizmo VoIP settings from the Download! folder in their device, automatically beginning the installation process. During installation, users go through a simple two-step process for creating a free account that they'll use to make Internet calls. Other capabilities, such as customizing voicemail greetings, purchasing Gizmo Call Out credit for dialing landlines and mobile devices and managing Gizmo account settings are available by using the Nokia N80 Internet Edition to browse the www.gizmovoip.com web site.

Vistula Communications Services, announced that Envox IP, a leading telecommunications VoIP carrier in Venezuela, officially deployed it's first of a series of franchised retail call shops across the country, following several months of trial deployments of Vistula's VoIP technology platform, V-Cube.

Based exclusively on Vistula's V-Cube VoIP platform, Envox and a group of local equipment and software providers will deploy a proprietary VoIP-based telephony solution that runs on Venezuela's most commonly used call shop equipment and software. This will allow for very quick and easy installation of a VoIP offering at a fraction of the equipment and software costs typically associated with the installation of a standard PSTN solution.

The Bralorne Mining Company announced that its 100% owned subsidiary company -- Beijing Quan Tong Chang Information Service Limited has signed a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Telephone service agreement with Beijing Oriental Jiachuang International Exhibition Inc., a leading exhibition and conference holding company in China. According to the agreement, Beijing QTC will deploy its 3GenisIP Integrated Access System to Beijing Oriental to support its VoIP Broadband Phone Network service with local, long distance and international calling.

CounterPath Solutions and Hana Micron announced that the companies have entered into co-marketing and reseller agreements.

Under the terms of the agreements, Hana Micron will be a representative of CounterPath's softphone products in the Korean market and CounterPath will be a representative of Hana Micron's VoIP products in the United States, Canada and all European markets.

The relationship not only creates new sales opportunities for both companies in their partner's primary markets, but includes a technical collaboration which will see the integration of superior and field-proven VoIP solutions by CounterPath with Hana Micron's VoIP products. Both parties have agreed to cooperate in entering the IP-TV market by co-developing VoIP solutions for TPS (Triple Play Services: High-speed Internet, Broadcasting, and Telephony).

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.

UBIFone, has selected deltathree's Outsourced Platform Solution to provide a hosted, back-end solution for its private label VoIP service and its current worldwide customer base. The deltathree platform supports UBIFone's VoIP services and will also provide thousands of UBIFone's existing customers with Direct Inward Dialing (DID), allowing them to request specific phone numbers to designated regions worldwide. The partnership will provide UBIFone's global community, in over 150 countries, with deltathree's innovative VoIP applications and services.