ASC announced its VoIP recording solution. EVOip active, has been certified by Alcatel-Lucent for connection via the IP DR-Link on the company´s OmniPCX Enterprise R9.0.

The certification, provided by Alcatel-Lucent engineers at their laboratory in Brest, France, encompasses the use of ASC’s RIAactive via EVOip Server Software Version 9.0. Thus, ASC has added another prominent integration to the many it already offers with major telecommunications vendors.

The certification was issued by Alcatel-Lucent’s Alliance and Application Partner Program after ASC’s EVOip recording system successfully passed the standards of inter-working with its OmniPCX Enterprise R9.0 communications platform.

Truphone announces that its Truphone Local Anywhere service will be available in the Netherlands and Spain within months. The global mobile operator has forged agreements with Vodafone Netherlands and Orange in Spain (part of the France Telecom Group) providing Truphone with access to the operators' mobile networks in these markets to deliver Truphone Local Anywhere voice and data rates and local numbers to its worldwide customer base.

These partnerships will mean that customers will benefit from the service's proposition of 'local rates and local numbers' in five countries: Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and the US. Elsewhere, the service provides competitive roaming rates.

Vox Communications has launched a mobile VoIP service and smart phone app to U.S. military personnel and their families.

Kevin Sullivan, President of Leading Points Corporation, which specializes in marketing to the military on a global scale, noted, “We are very excited about the mobile VoIP product and the ease of which an application can be downloaded to a smart phone in the U.S. or overseas. Vox is offering a 10% discount to military members, and has a special landing page for military personnel and their families. Based upon other programs that Leading Points has run for military personnel, we believe the VoX app will be very successful.”

Vocalocity has launched a video contest for small businesses across the nation. The 'Phone System Makeover Contest' was launched to promote helping small businesses become more efficient and cost effective. The winning submission will receive free service and a new phone system, which has an estimated value of up to $10,000. All of those who enter will receive 25% off their Vocalocity Service.

Running between June 14th and August 1st, the contest invites small businesses to send in a short thirty second to two minute video of how Vocalocity's technology can help to improve their business. Vocalocity recommends being creative and having fun with your submission. To encourage this, the submission guidelines have been kept short, with the exception of the time limit constraints.

Acme Packet announces four new customers across southeastern Asia. These incumbent, wireless and competitive service providers rely on Acme Packet’s Net-Net session border controllers to control the delivery of trusted, first-class IP communications to their customers. With these four customers, Acme Packet SBCs are now deployed by over 100 service providers in 19 Asia Pacific countries, ranging from Australia to China and India to Japan.

CounterPath announces the worldwide availability of Bria iPhone Edition for Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Bria iPhone Edition is a highly secure, standards-based VoIP softphone that works over both 3G and Wi-Fi networks.

Bria iPhone Edition integrates seamlessly with other CounterPath desktop and convergence solutions, as well as with enterprise and carrier infrastructure equipment from major vendors such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, BroadSoft, Metaswitch, Avaya, Cisco and NEC. Bria iPhone Edition also supports Asterisk-based telephony systems.

HelloSoft announces the availability of its award winning VoIP, IMS and IP Convergence software suite for the 4G HTC EVO phone launched by Sprint on June 4th. HelloSoft is the global leader in the embedded VoIP and IP convergence client market, and provides multimedia mobile device solutions to top tier carriers and ODM/OEMs around the world. HelloSoft will be demoing its Android client at the 4G WiMAX Developer Symposium at Stanford Developer Conference in Palo Alto June 15th, which will be the first public demonstration of any IMS compliant VoIP solution on Sprint's 4G HTC EVO phone.

VoIP Supply announces the release of their VoIP Phone Buyers Guide. The VoIP Phone Buyers Guide is the second guide to be released from their “Learn More” series of educational guides to VoIP equipment.

“As VoIP technology hits the mainstream prosumer there is a great need for educational resources that help demystify and explain the various components that comprise a complete VoIP solution so that solid purchase decisions can be made,” stated Garrett Smith, Director of Marketing and Business Development at VoIP Supply, LLC. “The VoIP Phone Buyers Guide is that type of resource.”

A new version of the Call Global iPhone app is now available in iTunes, the latest version of the mobile VoIP app allows users to make high definition VoIP calls over their 3G Network at no extra charge. Mobile VoIP calls are now no longer limited to WIFI zones, iPhone users can now make HD VoIP calls from anywhere their phone has a signal.

iPhone user's will now have the ability to make mobile VoIP calls from anywhere their iPhone has a 3G signal. In the past VoIP calls have been limited to WIFI zones, restricting most free and low-cost VoIP calls to a user's home or office.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Mobile VoIP: Technology and Business" report to their offering.

This report examines the technical, regulatory and business aspects of VoIP on mobile networks. It analyzes the key aspects of the HSPA, HSPA+ and LTE technology and highlights its challenges and opportunities. It evaluates current standardization efforts in 3GPP bodies on IMS and VoLGA and the status of regulatory requirements in different countries. The business impact of each of the technology, standards and regulatory restrictions are presented. A survey of the key players - client and infrastructure - and their offerings are presented. Potential deployment trends are examined based on the current VoIP solutions in the market.

Speakeasy has entered into an agreement to combine its business with Covad Communications Company and MegaPath Inc. in a deal that will create the first managed services local exchange carrier able to provide a full range of IP voice, security, VPN and Internet services nationwide. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2010, contingent upon closing of the previously announced transaction between MegaPath and Covad. Financial terms will not be disclosed.

This transaction will combine Speakeasy’s market-leading small business voice and data services with MegaPath’s wide selection of products and value-added services for distributed enterprises, and make them available over Covad’s intelligent, nationwide broadband network.

Phone.com announces the availability of two mobile apps that make the Phone.com Virtual Office service accessible from iPhones and Android devices. Phone.com Mobile Office, the first app to extend office phone capabilities for Android-powered phones, lets subscribers make and receive calls, send and receive text messages, and more from their Phone.com number using their Android phone.

Phone.com Mobile VoIP for the iPhone allows subscribers to use their Phone.com Virtual Office account from an iPhone to place VoIP-based calls using either a Wi-Fi or 3G data connection.

VocalTec announces that New Telephone Company, a triple-play carrier headquartered in Vladivostok, Russia, selected VocalTec as their preferred supplier for the roll-out of their Next Generation VoIP network.

VocalTec's Voice-over-IP solutions were selected to power NTC's migration to packet-based telephony and serve as the core voice platform for NTC's triple-play offering. VocalTec's solution fully satisfies all local regulatory requirements and allowed NTC to launch their VoIP service in record time.

Voxbone announces availability of its local number service in a 50th country: South Africa. Carriers and large enterprises wanting a local-call presence in South Africa now can purchase direct-inward-dial numbers and origination service through Voxbone, which carries the call over the long international leg via IP, delivering it to the network of the end user.

With this milestone, Voxbone establishes its first offering in Africa, after providing local DID coverage for all European Union and North American nations, as well as many Latin American, Asia Pacific and Middle Eastern countries.

Acrobits announces the latest feature of Acrobits Softphone, provider provisioning. In just a few minutes, any SIP based VoIP operator can have their settings added to Acrobits Softphone’s preconfigured provider list completely free. Acrobits Softphone, the leading SIP Client for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, just became even more attractive to both SIP providers and users.

As any VoIP veteran knows, getting the correct settings for your provider entered in your SIP client can be a painful process. Since ease of use is a high priority for customers shopping for a service provider, this results in many customers picking a provider that has their own softphone client on multiple platforms. Since the iPhone OS is the leading mobile platform, having a reliable SIP client on Apple’s App Store is an important component to attracting new business. “By adding themselves to our list of preconfigured providers,” says Acrobits, “VoIP operators can provide their customers with a proven SIP client on the App Store and an easy way to use their service on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch."