Bandwidth.com has signed a commercial deal with the Verizon wireline companies under which the parties agree to terminate each other’s VoIP traffic at a rate of $0.0007 per minute.

The agreed upon rate, which applies to traffic that originates from or terminates to a VoIP end user, provides the companies with cost certainty for the traffic they exchange, thereby increasing the opportunity for both companies to make further investments in innovative services that benefit their customers.

Electronic Frontier Ltd has launched a range of end-to-end VoIP products to provide telecoms and IT resellers with a simple way to offer a complete IP telephony solution to their customers. Each package offered by EFL uses IP-PBX and handsets provided by IP telephony solution provider snom, allowing the distributor to offer bundled solutions at a competitive price without compromising on functionality.

Leading VoIP and Unified Communications service providers Broadvox and Cypress Communications announce the completion of their merger. The merged company will be identified as Broadvox, while retaining Cypress as a distinguished brand of the Broadvox service offerings.

This merger reflects the strategy of both companies to provide customers with high-quality, innovative and cost-effective communication services with unsurpassed customer service.

announces the launch of its new BlackBerry application, allowing BlackBerry users to make and receive free international calls between more than 50 countries.

The news immediately affects millions of BlackBerry users looking for a smart and simple solution for making free or affordable international calls. Rebtel currently has mobile offerings with similar Free Calls functionality available for the Android platform (since March 2010) and is adding it to their next version of Apple’s iOS iteration slated for release in Spring 2011.

According to a January 2011 report from app store analytics company Distimo, RIM’s BlackBerry App World showed triple digit growth in the last year, growing to nearly 18,000 applications.

Mirial announces the availability of the first professional video conferencing client for Apple iOS devices, supporting both SIP and H.323 standards, featuring high-quality video conference and optimized in order to get the most out of the mobile networks.

The software is available today for iPhone® 4 and iPod Touch 4th gen, and in few weeks for iPhone 3GS and iPad.

Built by Mirial on over 10 years of video communication excellence, it provides a standards-based solution for video conferencing over Wi-Fi, 3G and 4G networks, enabling iPhone users to connect to other iPhones, iPods, Android phones and tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Windows PC and Mac or to any H323 standards-based video conferencing equipment such as room systems or existing MCUs.

FeatureTel has expanded to the Atlanta market, making its private, cloud-based telecom services available to businesses in the city and the surrounding region. Triangle-based FeatureTel has been providing hosted VoIP business phone services to customers across North Carolina since 2003. Providing phone systems as a service over a private voice network, FeatureTel eliminates the need for clients to purchase a premise-based phone system while clients also benefit from the cloud technology.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Business of Mobile VoIP: IP Voice Communications in the Enterprise" report to their offering.

Over the past several years, Voice over IP has become a cornerstone of business communications systems. The benefits that IP-based communications delivers is being extended to mobile devices through mobile VoIP, a solution which enables VoIP calls to be placed over a cellular data or Wi-Fi network from a mobile device. Business implementation of mobile VoIP is varied and is both, enterprise and individual driven. This report focuses on top-down enterprise-driven mobile VoIP, which In-Stat defines to be associated with an IP or hosted PBX solution.

VoIP is spreading from the fixed-line world to the mobile world. Usage is on the rise creating significant opportunity for mobile VoIP gateway equipment suppliers as expenditures in this space are expected to soar beyond the $6 billion mark in 2015, says In-Stat.

"Mobile VoIP has only recently begun being implemented in the business environment," says Amy Cravens, Market Analyst. "One of the key benefits of mobile VoIP for enterprises is extending desk phone functionality to mobile devices. Business-oriented solutions will essentially enable the users' cellphones to become an extension of their desk phones and will deliver, in addition to voice, a unified communications experience, including email, IM, and collaboration."

Pac-West Telecomm announces that its Telastic on-demand border controller service, launched in September, has rated and routed in excess of a billion minutes through the end of 2010.

Pac-West recently launched the Telastic on-demand service set, consisting of three integrated elements: Telastic Infrastructure, Telastic Application Capacity, and Telastic Turnkey VoIP Applications. Telastic Border Controller technology is at the heart of the Telastic Infrastructure offering, which provides scalable on-demand border control, including VoIP security with network address translation capability, firewall traversal, and interworking. The Telastic Border Controller also includes a suite of advanced managerial features including domestic and international routing, VoIP peering, numbers management, billing, traffic analysis and reporting, revenue protection, fraud detection, and traffic management.

CyberData Corporation announces the release of the highly anticipated VoIP Indoor Keypad Intercom with Night Ringer, available in flush or wall mount versions.

The Keypad Intercom, next in the line of SIP intercom devices which includes the Outdoor, Emergency and Indoor Intercoms, combines the functions of the current line of intercoms with a 12-key keypad that has programmable speed dial and provides local and remote secure door lock control.

The SIP Forum announces the SIP Network Operators Conference (SIPNOC), a new annual conference for the international service provider community. The two-day conference will bring together the leading technical minds from the telecommunications industry to learn, discuss and formulate new ideas and strategies concerning the challenges and opportunities for SIP-based carrier services in fixed and mobile IP network environments. Unlike other events, this conference is for SIP network operations personnel, such as NOC engineers, instead of a high-level conference for executives. The first SIPNOC 2011 conference will be held at the Hyatt Dulles Hotel in Herndon, VA April 25 -27, 2011.

Digium caps off a year marked by strong growth in the use of Asterisk and substantial technical advances in the product. Contributions from the open source community matched Digium’s investment in Asterisk over the past year. To date, more than 9,800 people have contributed code to Asterisk, including more than 200 who worked on Asterisk 1.8. After releasing version 1.8 in October, the momentum continued later that month when the company also announced a new open source project, Asterisk SCF. Enthusiasm for Asterisk among users, including developers, resellers, integrators and systems administrators, also increased as they downloaded the software more than two million times in 2010.

Hughes Network Systems launches its managed VoIP solution for the distributed enterprise. Using the new Hughes ActiveQoS technology, Hughes can provide superior voice quality over affordable broadband, eliminating the need for customers to invest in expensive leased line MPLS networks.

ActiveQoS Ensures High Quality Voice

Hughes ActiveQoS technology is integrated into the Hughes customer premise equipment and actively monitors and adapts to network congestion over the broadband network. Hughes ActiveQoS incorporates several innovative optimization methods, including traffic metering, network change adaptation, and traffic prioritization, to ensure that real-time, latency sensitive applications, such as voice, are prioritized on an end-to-end basis. As a result, users enjoy a high-quality voice experience with minimal packet loss and jitter.

Wireless and Skype announce that mobile with video will soon be available on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network. This new version of Skype mobile from Verizon Wireless will be deeply integrated into a wide range of 4G smartphones to be available by mid-2011. With front- and rear-facing cameras, these Android-based 4G LTE smartphones will make it simple for customers to make Skype-to-Skype video calls over Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network.

Customers will be able to see and hear their friends and family when making or receiving Skype-to-Skype video calls on Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network, the fastest and most advanced 4G network in the nation. The new offer expands Skype’s video calling capabilities for millions and provides a great video experience using the speed, low-latency and quality of Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE wireless network.

has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Qik, a provider of mobile video software and services that enable individuals to capture, instantly share and preserve great moments on video from anywhere. Qik has 60 employees, and is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has an office in Moscow, Russia. The transaction is expected to close in January 2011. Terms of the acquisition will not be disclosed.

Qik was founded in 2006 and offers innovative and flexible solutions to capture and share video with anyone across mobile devices, the web, and desktop platforms. Videos can be shared in real time or stored so moments can be viewed later, allowing for video messaging, sharing and archiving. The Qik service is available on over 200 mobile phones across the Android, iPhone, Symbian, Blackberry and Windows Mobile platforms, and comes pre-loaded on a wide variety of mobile handsets through partnerships with leading handset manufacturers and carriers.