Celebrate Canada Day, call home all day on the 1st of July free of charge. Rebtel is offering unlimited free calling to Canada from 48 countries in celebration of Canada Day from Newfoundland Daylight Saving time (UTC – 2.5) to Pacific Daylight Saving Time (UTC - 7).

“Rebtel was founded to be the best way to stay connected to your loved ones without paying too much and since Canada day is a big celebration for our users we want to help them re-connect by making the calling free on that day. We also want to show people calling Canada that you can just call as normal with local numbers from Rebtel and save up to 95%,” said Andreas Bernström, Rebtel’s CEO. “We have over four million users who stay in touch with their loved ones using our services from over 190 countries.”

Voip-Pal.Com released its new PointsPhone Mobile as an Apple App. This application allows extremely low cost international and domestic calls on your Apple iPhone. Downloading is simple and Free. Simply go to the iTunes store and download! Activation requires "Sign Up" on www.PointsPhone.com. Using your iPhone, the user can call international for as low as 2 cents per minute. Features include, Call Forwarding, Voice Mail, Call Backs, Free Peer to Peer Calling and Virtual Numbers.

360networks has deployed Dedicated Internet Access service for Velocity Networks. In addition to DIA, Velocity also uses 360networks' Wholesale VoIP services to include IP Origination, Toll Free Origination and IP Termination.

By integrating DIA with 360networks' Wholesale VoIP services, Velocity's customers can prioritize VoIP packets across the 360 IP backbone and route directly to the Velocity VoIP platform for call routing and processing. The direct routing will bypass the public internet and ensure low latency and the least possible hops.

Teo announces that Vassar College is the latest higher education institution to select its leading Enhanced 911 (E911) Emergency Response System. Vassar selected Teo's E911 system to improve its ability to identify the origin of 911 calls coming from its campus.

Many organizations have internal response teams that need to have precise situational information when a 911 call occurs. With conventional PBX technology, public E911 first responders often will not get location information that identifies a secondary building, floor or office the call came from -- only the street address of the primary business location.

Ooma announces the availability of the Ooma Mobile Application (app) for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The new app offers Ooma customers the ability to save money on their mobile calling plans with improved convenience and functionality and outstanding voice quality with Ooma’s PureVoiceTM Technology.

With the Ooma Mobile app, Ooma customers can make domestic and international calls from an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad over any Wi-Fi or 3G network. By tapping into an active Wi-Fi or 3G connection, Ooma customers can use their Ooma account credentials while on the road to connect calls and bypass the high international calling rates associated with mobile calling plans from major carriers.

For a limited time UniVoIP offers free business phones and unlimited training and support to all non profit organizations that sign up for a calling plan through their hosted PBX platform that features free inbound, free in-network and local, long distance and even international calls as low as $0.02 per minute with unlimited plans available.

Vopium's economic foundation is now secured so that the company can keep expanding internationally. The Indian investor, Raghuvinder Kataria, has with his own investment company invested $16.5 million in the Danish company and he now owns the majority of the shares in Vopium.

Vopium was established in Copenhagen by a group of people spearheaded by Tanveer Sharif. It was originally intended for immigrants who were looking for cheap telephony solutions to get in contact with family and friends in distant countries. This target group has since been expanded to all people and companies who want to make cheap international phone calls. With a software program installed on their mobile phone, users can make very cheap calls, e.g. from Denmark to the US for only $ 0,02 per minute, and with the same quality as that provided by traditional phone companies. One million users have already installed Vopium on their mobile phone and 250,000 users in 49 countries are using the solution.

Junction Networks announces that the company has won a Stevie Award for Best New Product of the Year - Telecommunications in the 2010 American Business Awards for its My.OnSIP product.

The awards were presented during ceremonies at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The ceremonies were hosted by Cheryl Casone of Fox Business Network and broadcast nationwide on radio by the Business TalkRadio Network.

Our customers have been nothing but thrilled with this feature and we look forward to continuing to add useful technology to our suite of products.

In winning the Stevie, Junction Networks beat out other finalists including Gigamon, Hatteras Networks, and Teo Technologies.

Truphone announces the availability of its updated application for the iPhone and iPod touch iOS 4 in the Apple iTunes store.

What's new?

• 3G Calling: The application now allows consumers to place and receive calls over 3G networks. This means that consumers have the option to make calls as part of their data package even when out of Wi-Fi range, using their mobile carrier's 3G network.
• Background calling: Thanks to Apple iOS 4's multi-tasking feature, Truphone now allows voice calls and data applications to run simultaneously. For customers, this ensures they won't miss incoming calls when running a data application and can place a call while surfing the Internet or checking email.
• Truphone Instant Messenger: The new updated applications include Truphone Instant Messenger. For the first time, customers will be able to chat via IM with other Truphone users as well as contacts on several of the most popular social networking sites, including Facebook, Skype, AIM, GoogleTalk, MSN and Yahoo! – all in one place, without having to open up multiple IM applications.

D2 Technologies announces that its mCUE product line now fully supports Skype’s SkypeKit SDK. mCUE gives OEMs and ODMs a quick and economical way to speed Android OS-based devices to market that offer a communications client with native Skype interoperability and powerful integrated communication capabilities. Combining the SkypeKit SDK with mCUE’s advanced user interface and high quality media engine offers customers the added benefit of mCUE’s advanced multi-mode, multi-session, multi-protocol engine for full interoperability with multiple carrier and enterprise communications systems and other social networking services.

Rebtel announces the new version of its Android app is now available, allowing users to make free Android-to-Android international calls between more than 50 countries, and realize savings of up to 95 percent when making calls to any other phone, compared to traditional long-distance rates.

Rebtel for Android v. 1.1 includes:

• Android-to-Android free calls: The international part of the call is completely free of charge. The caller and recipient only pay their carriers for local calling minutes determined by their calling plans.
• App works in background of default Android dial pad: When the user dials an international number from the native Android dial pad, or selects a contact with an international number from the address book, the call is automatically intercepted and routed via Rebtel instead of their carrier. Android-to-Android calls are free. Calls to any other phone cost a fraction of the regular international calling rate in a seamless calling experience as normally done on any Android phone. Just dial and smile. Rebtel does the rest.
• No Wi-Fi needed: Rebtel works on the standard cellular network using local phone numbers where the caller lives instead of requiring an active Wi-Fi connection to make free or low-cost international calls. Rebtel for Android works anytime, anywhere and works with the standard dial pad and address book.

Axvoice is a premium VoIP service provider in the U.S. Axvoice aims for nothing but excellence in terms of providing the best internet phone service to its customers by offering affordable calling plans in premium quality. With high quality services and a dedicated staff, Axvoice has made its reputation in the international market. That is why; it is standing tall among its competitors.

Axvoice proudly offers its valuable customers with a ‘CATCH’ -- three months free services offer with the residential international plan. If you sign up with the Axvoice internet phone service before 4th of July 2010, you will be able to enjoy making free calls with your residential international plan for an entire three months time! With a huge and ever-increasing customer base, the company is aiming to guarantee its customers satisfaction with the introduction of a three months free residential international plan. Axvoice Residential International plan allows you to enjoy making high quality calls to more than 40 destinations worldwide including free calls to US and Canada. Axvoice, with its remarkable history of the best calling plans makes sure that its users are free of all worries when making international calls. All the calling plans provided to the users by Axvoice are really amazing and cost you very little. The residential international plan allows you to make free in network calls.

As companies continue to push for more efficient and effective interaction among employees, customers and partners, Verizon Business is now offering new IP capabilities that make the adoption of unified communications and collaboration simpler and more cost-effective than ever before.

The new capabilities, unveiled Wednesday (June 23) feature:

• IP Audio Conferencing for conducting instant meetings that will speed collaboration while eliminating additional per minute charges for calls originating from a Verizon IP-enabled location leveraging the company's expansive global IP network.
• VoIP IP Enterprise Routing (VIPER) – a new cloud-based VoIP feature that enables more cost-effective business-to-business voice calls by eliminating domestic or international per minute calling charges when calls are made between Verizon VoIP customers in either the U.S. and Europe that sign up for the VIPER feature. As an added benefit, a customer using Verizon IP Audio Conferencing will not incur additional per minute charges from any VIPER-enabled location dialing into the host conference bridge.
• Centralized multi-site designs for Verizon Hosted IP Centrex customers in Europe to aggregate calls through a central "hub" location connected to Verizon's expansive global IP network, including calls from sites in other countries, or using third-party wide area network access, or both. Multi-site customers also benefit from a new pricing structure between countries where Verizon offers VoIP.

Digium announces the availability of Switchvox Mobile applications for iPhone and BlackBerry. The freely downloadable applications integrate with the company’s Switchvox VoI Unified Communications solution to bring advanced UC functionality to employees even when they are away from the office.

Switchvox Mobile applications are connected to an employee’s phone extension, so when mobile workers make a business call through Switchvox Mobile, the call appears to be from their work phone, rather than their mobile phone, and billing can be handled like any other call they would make from the office. To place a call using the Switchvox Mobile application, mobile workers can select a name from the company directory, dial the employee’s extension from the keypad, or easily return calls from the Voicemail and Call Log tools.

TalkFree has announced performance results for the first quarter of 2010. The company’s total number of calls more than doubled from 15.8 million to 33.4 million from the year-ago period and total revenue increased 37 percent, with explosive growth coming from its mobile VoIP solutions.

During the first quarter of 2010, TalkFree made several network and product enhancements, enabling the company to more effectively capture mobile VoIP opportunities in the Middle East and Africa, its core markets. Specifically, TalkFree integrated SMS functionality into its mobile platform, giving customers the ability to send international SMS messages at a fraction of the rate charged by traditional wireless carriers. In addition, TalkFree engineered its mobile VoIP products to be compatible with nearly the entire Nokia S60 phone series, which is very popular in Middle Eastern and African nations.