Vyke launches its commercial mobile VoIP service from any of The Cloud's 9,500+ UK and European hotspots and metropolitan area networks. This brings free access to Vyke's mobile VoIP service to the millions of individuals that enter into The Cloud hotspots each day. To use Vyke's mobile VoIP service from a The Cloud wireless network, Vyke users need only to connect to Vyke as normal from their mobile phone, no separate The Cloud account or signup is necessary.

Setting up a Call Shop has never been easier. By implementing BlasterPhone Call Shop solution Cyber Café and Phone Booths owners benefit from best quality of calls, advanced management tools, great bonuses and the most competitive international rates.

Entrepreneurs with Internet access can now quickly and easily set up a Call Shop at any location worldwide, essentially becoming telephone operators enabling people to make high quality VoIP phone calls across the globe for previously unimaginable low prices. Call Shops can provide very competitive rates to any traveler and migrant worker without a phone.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Softswitch RFP to their offering.

Voice over Internet Protocol products in various forms has been available for about a decade. To date, VoIP enjoys a market share of less than 10% of the US residential voice market. For a number of reasons, VoIP growth is about to begin a dramatic, "hockey stick" growth curve. At the forefront of this development is the softswitch. Firstly, legacy time division multiplexing switches such as the Lucent 5ESS or the Nortel DMS series are no longer being sold in any quantity in the US market. The last "fleet" sale of such switches was to the "old" AT&T in 1998. The giants of the telecommunications switch industry (Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent, for example) have long since moved on to promoting their VoIP-oriented softswitches. Secondly, incumbent telcos large and small seek "investment protection" for the billions of dollars of TDM switches in their inventories through various technology band aids. However, the harsh reality is that the majority of US-based TDM switches will have to be replaced in the next 5 years if their service providers are to remain competitive as the telecom world moves to Internet Protocol-based technologies. Finally, the emergence of new IP-base service providers drives demand for all-IP networks utilizing softswitch for voice services.

Technology Marketing Corporation have teamed with Fonality to launch trixCon: The Open Communication Conference this January in Miami. To be held January 24-25, 2008 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, trixCon will feature a dedicated presentation theater and exhibition on the INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2008 show floor. Attendees seeking open source telephony solutions can attend free educational sessions and visit leading vendors showcasing the latest open source products and services.

Packet8's Complete Contact Center has received a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation's Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. Designed specifically for small to medium sized businesses with call center operations consisting of less than 100 seats, the Packet8 Complete Contact Center is a multimedia distribution and management platform that works with any broadband Internet service and provides enterprise class contact center functionality combined with Virtual Office hosted iPBX calling features and Packet8's cost efficient business VoIP calling plans. Developed in partnership with Contactual, Inc., a global leader in on demand contact center technology solutions, the Packet8 Complete Contact Center lets companies quickly deploy and operate multi-channel contact centers within Packet8's hosted iPBX infrastructure without the time and expense of purchasing, installing and maintaining costly, specialized equipment.

Digium announces OrecX’s support for Asterisk Business Edition, the professional version of Digium's open source telephony engine. Compatibility with Asterisk Business Edition allows OrecX to provide small and mid-sized businesses running the Asterisk platform a modular, cross-platform recording and retrieval system for audio streams. OrecX has also become a Digium|Asterisk Software Partner to enhance the relationship between OrecX and Digium.

By leveraging the power of open source, the OrecX suite of applications delivers end users a voice recording platform that is easy to install and maintain and that continually evolves to meet the needs of Asterisk users at a significantly lower cost than proprietary voice recorders.

Worldwide sales of service provider next gen voice equipment are up 5% in 3Q07 from 2Q07 to $956.4 million, says Infonetics Research in its "Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers" report.

Year-over-year, the next gen voice market is up 15%, the report shows.

Other report highlights:

• The service provider next gen voice equipment market is forecast to more than double between 2006 and 2010, when it will reach $6.9 billion worldwide
• The number of worldwide residential and SOHO VoIP subscribers will grow to nearly 172 million in 2010, led by the Asia Pacific region
• Worldwide media gateway manufacturer revenue is down 4% in 3Q07 over 2Q07
• Nortel takes back the lead in worldwide softswitch revenue market share, pushing Nokia Siemens to 2nd; Huawei remains in 3rd
• It's a tight race for the lead in the trunk media gateway market, with Sonus edging back into the lead, followed closely by Nortel and Cisco

Klausner Technologies files patent lawsuits under its visual voicemail patents against Comcast, Cablevision and eBay Inc.’s Skype with damages and future royalties estimated at $300 million.

The lawsuit asserts that the above companies’ VOIP voicemail products and services infringe Klausner Technologies’ U.S. Patent 5,572,576. The patent has already been licensed to various other companies which provide the same visual voice messaging services, including Time Warner’s AOL for its AOL Voicemail services, Vonage Holdings for its Vonage Voicemail Plus services as well as others, under the Klausner Patents.

MediaRing will extend its MediaRing Talk Unlimited Free Calls promotion through 31 January 2008. This special promotion offers unlimited free calls to key global destinations including Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, UK and USA. See website for promotion terms & conditions.

At the same time, MediaRing is also offering a special rate promotion to India at US$0.05 cents / minute on all fixed and mobile lines. This promotion also ends on 31st January 2008.