Vodafone Germany has confirmed to teltarif.de that it has enabled mobile VoIP services on its network. The operator's press departments told teltarif that users would have to pay additional costs for mobile VoIP and other new services, which will be available only with the company's SuperFlat internet tariffs. Customers subscribing to the SuperFlat Internet Weekend tariff will pay an extra EUR 29.95 for the Internet Plus option with a 24-month contract.

Level 3 has been selected to provide voice communications services to San Francisco Bay Area-based Dialink Corporation, a provider of voice and data solutions for enterprises.

Under the contract, Level 3 is providing Dialink with two voice-related services:

• Level 3 Voice Termination service, which provides worldwide termination of long-distance voice traffic, including VoIP. This service is highly flexible and scalable, allowing customers such as Dialink to quickly adjust their communications needs to meet the requirements of their business environment.
• Level 3 Local Inbound service, which allows companies to offer VoIP service to businesses and consumers with broadband connections. This service targets VoIP providers that manage large volumes of traffic, operate their own softswitch infrastructure, and need a cost-efficient, one-way connection that originates on the traditional public-switched telephone network but requires a handoff to an IP network.

VoIP Supply announces their selection to Inc. Magazine’s 28th annual list of America’s fastest growing private companies based on revenue growth of 55.7% from 2005 to 2008. The selection marks the third year in a row that VoIP Supply has appeared on this prestigious list.

“It’s always an incredible honor to be named to a list that contains the best and brightest companies in America,” stated Benjamin P. Sayers CEO of VoIP Supply, LLC. “This year’s selection is especially gratifying given the economic turmoil everyone experienced during 2008. The fact that VoIP Supply was once again named the Inc. 5000 with these factors in play is a testament to the hard work, dedication and team effort put forth each day by the entire VoIP Supply staff. I could not be more proud of everyone who has played a part in our continued success.”

JAJAH is working with Microsoft to provide SIP Trunking services to Microsoft enterprise customers globally, allowing companies to make high quality voice calls over JAJAH's IP Platform in the cloud, without requiring an infrastructure upgrade.

Enterprises using Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 can now connect directly with JAJAH's global carrier-grade IP network to make high quality voice calls. In addition to the significant cost-benefits, JAJAH's extensive range of calling solutions integrate seamlessly into the enterprise, so voice calls can be made from computers and landlines.

Accredited journalists and published telecom analysts will be some of the first to test drive the world’s first truly mobile VoIP system. xG Technology is opening its lab facilities in Sunrise, Florida to media and analysts in order to preview its new technology, which has the potential to dramatically drive down the cost of calling. xG Technology has developed xMax—a system that allows consumers to benefit from much lower-cost mobile calls via the Internet. Major cellular providers have blocked these Internet calls on their networks.

Vonage introduces two new services that dramatically improve the value of its core offering. "Vonage World," provides unlimited calling around the world to more than 60 countries, including India, Mexico and China for the current flat monthly rate of $24.99.

In addition, the new Vonage Visual Voicemail service extends the company's presence onto other devices by providing unlimited "readable voicemail" delivered via email or SMS text message. Vonage is the only U.S. home phone service provider to offer voice-to-text conversion at no additional charge. Both services will become basic features of the core Vonage offering.

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BT is halfway towards its goal this year of building a million-strong Wi-Fi hotspot network, the company announced today. High speed public wireless broadband is now available at 500,000 homes, businesses and city centres in the UK and Ireland.

The sites include hotspots provided by the BT FON Wi-Fi Community, BT Openzone, 12 ‘wireless’ city centres, plus BT Openzone hotspots via the BT Business Hub. Well known brands offering access include Hilton, Thistle and Ramada Jarvis hotels, Caffe Nero and Starbucks coffee stores, Welcome Break and Roadchef Costa service stations, BA, Flybe and Skyteam airport lounges.

snom and Technology Alignment announce the full integration of the entire product line of telephones on its VoIPTelCaster PBX ranging from the VTC 50 to the VTC 1000. After testing and deploying the phones internally, the company has selected snom phones as the premier line of its telephony offering. snom's green VoIP phone portfolio, noted for being the lowest power consumption telephones in the market today, makes snom the perfect match for the VTC green series aimed at the SOHO and SMB markets.

Sipera Systems announces an initiative with Westcon Group the leading specialty distributor in networking, convergence, security and mobility, to provide comprehensive VoIP/UC security solutions customized for education, healthcare, and finance.

AltiGen announces at the annual Boomer Technology Circle conference that its VoIP solution has provided significant return on investment for accounting firm member Gifford & Cox.

Gifford & Cox is a firm of Certified Public Accountants and Consultants with offices across Western Nebraska. The firm's services are provided to closely held companies and family owned businesses such as tax planning and preparation, accounting and auditing.

GigaOM announces the winners of the Mobile LaunchPad, which recognizes the 10 best mobile startups of the year, at Mobilize 09. Find out after the jump the companies honored as LaunchPad winners for the best mobile startups.

BroadSoft announces its involvement in the industry's first smartphone to smartphone VoIP call by mobile communications provider TerreStar Networks. On July 20, TerreStar announced the completion of an end-to-end VoIP call over TerreStar-1, the world's largest, most advanced commercial communications satellite. BroadSoft's VoIP application platform, BroadWorks, was used to route the call over TerreStar's all-IP core network.

SIP Print announce that the SIPfoundry sipXecs IP PBX as been certified via SIP Print Labs program testing. This certification acknowledges the sipXecs as delivering high performance and compliance with SIP standards, and interoperability with SIP Print's call recording solutions for IP-based phone systems.

8x8 announces it has completed its move to expanded corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley, enabling it to better accommodate a workforce that has increased steadily over the past 12 months. The 52,000 square foot facility houses roughly 230 employees and includes executive and administrative offices, sales and customer support call centers, a state of the art 24/7 Network Operations Center, product warehousing and shipping facilities and a hands-on training center. The company employs a direct sales team to consult with prospective small business customers about the advantages of its VoIP hosted PBX phone service, currently in use by over 17,000 companies. This segment of 8x8's workforce has grown more than 50% since June 2008 and will continue to be an area of expansion for the company in the months and years to come.