Momentum Telecom announces that it has acquired CommPartners – a VoIP services provider based in Las Vegas – through an asset liquidation process resulting from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Momentum was the highest bidder of several companies considering the acquisition of CommPartners’ assets.

CommPartners currently supports approximately 200 reseller customers and more than 27,000 hosted seats and SIP trunks. At its peak, the company reported annual revenues of $77 million. CommPartners has primarily serviced data VARs and other resellers that provide hosted IP telephony to small and medium-sized businesses, closely mirroring Momentum’s focus on providing hosted solutions to cable company and municipality subscribers throughout the U.S.

Sangoma launches the D150 voice transcoding series, the latest addition to its transcoding board offering, targeted for the embedded and stand-alone VoIP solutions markets.

In a constant battle to maximize capital investment and improve ROI, network operators need to push as much voice traffic through their existing infrastructure as possible. Operators may choose to encode (or compress) the voice signals with any one of a variety of VoIP codecs, such as G.723 or G.729. Moreover, if a call needs to traverse two different networks that each support different codecs, the voice signal must be transcoded in real time. The processes of encoding and transcoding are processor intense and can often cause load related issues with the server that is managing the process. The D150 boards are specifically engineered to perform the required transcoding without impacting the host performance, allowing the system to support a significantly increased number of calls.

888VoIP announces it will market, sell and support the complete portfolio of VU TelePresence’s video conferencing technologies to its reseller channel.

"The VU HD conferencing systems is a perfect fit for our reseller community," says Dan Shurmatz, Director of Business Development, 888VoIP. "With 888VoIP’s move into IP surveillance, security and IP video conferencing, we are expanding the total solution our resellers can provide to their customers. By providing lead generation, training, marketing and technical expertise, 888VoIP is investing in the success of its channel partners and its manufacturers."

Openmind Networks announced results of a recent market study of mobile VoIP users. Openmind found that subscribers of its mobile VoIP and messaging solution, Portico are talking on average, over two and a half (2.5) times longer than the average mobile voice call. This trend is significant as it points to valuable revenue opportunities for mobile operators as they compete with Skype and other over-the-top service providers.

The study was carried out amongst Portico users from April 22nd through April 25th, 2011 over a busy holiday weekend. With Portico, users can make and receive calls and texts using their existing mobile number by using a personal webphone, accessed online from their mobile service provider’s portal. Users can make calls for the same cost of a local mobile call, even when abroad. The launch of the service has discouraged subscribers from using over-the-top services such as Skype and offers a more compelling user experience.

Broadvox opened the 2011 Partner Summit today in Dallas. Sales channel partners and OEMs attended to share information about new products and sales positioning and to learn about the new Broadvox cloud solutions.

The Summit event opened with an Executive Round Table where the CEO of Broadvox and Cypress Communications, Andre Temnorod, and EVP Sales and Marketing, David Byrd, welcomed over 150 participants and discussed the evolution of Broadvox, the SIP Trunking Industry and its role in delivering Cloud Communication solutions. The session was moderated by Rich Tehrani, the CEO of Telecom Marketing Corporation, the only publishing and tradeshow company focusing exclusively on the rapidly growing voice/data convergence and on computer telephony integration. Rich Tehrani is a VoIP industry expert, visionary, author and columnist.

ITP VoIP is offering two digital phone plans custom-tailored for businesses. The hosted PBX and SIP trunking plans both start as low as $19.99 and allow business owners to choose between managing their systems in-house or letting ITP VoIP handle everything remotely.

Many businesses - small businesses in particular - are not interested in hiring an additional person or persons for an IT department to handle their phone and computer systems, so ITP VoIP offers to do it for them with its VoIP hosted PBX service.

The hosted PBX plans begin with the Metered Plus plan at under $20 per month. From there, clients can upgrade to a selection of Unlimited Plus plans offering support for multiple business lines, as well as unlimited calling through the U.S. and Canada. The hosted PBX packages include conference calling, caller ID, online call log viewing, number portability, music on hold, and individual extensions, among other features.

Tpad announced its confidence that SIP trunking services will reach its all-time high demand in 2011. It announced that with companies all over the world seeking to improve existing telephone systems, it is only a matter of time for SIP trunking to be integrated fully into the telecommunications industry and deployed in business enterprises worldwide. "We are positive that this new service we provide will become widely accepted, especially for companies that make and take calls from clients, local and international," says Tpad CEO Tahir Mohsan.

SIP Trunking is a telecommunications technology that allows convergence of voice and data into one single, merged line. The SIP trunk will serve as a converter that enables the data network to access voice traffic through Internet connectivity. With SIP Trunking, companies can enjoy local and long distance calls, video conference, E911, caller ID, and directory listing features with their current telephony systems without shelling out big investments. Calls are specifically routed through a VoIP network so call charges are significantly reduced. Tpad Marketing Manager Steven Johns adds, "This new technology allows enhanced use of our clients' existing IP or IP-PBX phones without the need for additional physical hardware like PSTN circuits to convert TDM to voice."

8x8 announces the launch and immediate availability of its new 8x8 Virtual Office Solo service, a groundbreaking, all-in-one, business VoIP telephone and unified cloud communications solution designed specifically to meet the needs of single person businesses.

Offering unprecedented "big business" caliber communications services with complete office telephone capabilities, including voicemail, call recording and archiving, call forwarding, Internet fax and unlimited local and long-distance in the U.S. and Canada, 8x8 Virtual Office Solo delivers a complete business communications package for one unbeatable low monthly price of just $7.99 per month plus taxes and fees. With no hardware or software to buy or maintain, Virtual Office Solo is the most powerful and affordable communications platform on the market for solopreneurs, home-based office workers and mobile professionals.

The partnership between alwaysON and SIPCOM has been shaped with specific focus on the enhancement of alwaysON's voice and unified communication solutions. SIPCOM specialise in hosted solutions and bring new capabilities to the alwaysON portfolio.

The new relationship will enable alwaysON to replace their existing hosted IP PBX solution with Hosted Voice from SIPCOM. SIPCOM's Hosted IP PBX is an affordable, easily scalable and flexible platform that can be setup up in a fraction of the time of other voice systems. This means that businesses can be responsive and agile, irrespective of size, number of offices and geographic location.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Mobile VoIP - Is it Really a Threat to Operator Voice Revenues?" report to their offering.

This study looks at the changing landscape of the mobile VoIP market; the main over the top players, the new entrants together with what they bring, and how the operators are reacting. The technical challenges are assessed, and an analysis as to the level of threat mobile VoIP brings to operator revenues is made. It concludes with a scenario for the development of this emerging market.

3CX announces a strategic partnership. Under the terms of the agreement, 3CX will become one of the preferred PBX partners of Grandstream, and 3CX will fully certify and integrate Grandstream’s broad portfolio of IP phones, gateways and multimedia phones, allowing for customers to easily provision and manage Grandstream phones from the 3CX Management console. With the integration, initial configuration and setup of a complete phone system will be much easier and ongoing management will be reduced. 3CX and Grandstream will also commit to advanced feature development and providing end-to-end support to customers, giving companies peace of mind that the complete solution is supported by both companies.

The partnership has already resulted in benefits for customers and resellers: 3CX has shipped enhanced Grandstream phone support in Service Pack 4 of 3CX Phone System 9. It is now possible to provision and manage Grandstream phones from the 3CX management console, including the ability to upgrade the firmware network wide via the 3CX management console.

Windstream and IPitomy announced that they have successfully completed interoperability testing between SIP products and services. Windstream is now interoperable with IPitomy’s Pure IP PBX platform.

IPitomy designs and manufactures IP telephony equipment for businesses. Windstream delivers telecommunications services to residential and business customers in 29 states and the District of Columbia.

IPitomy’s PBX and Windtream services create a complete telecommunication solution for businesses of all sizes using SIP trunking as well as traditional TDM services.

The latest version of the FriendCaller Android app is now available for free download. This update includes numerous improvements in the user interface and there are optimizations made in various functions.

FriendCaller.com is operated by C2Call GmbH, and is an easy-to-use, browser based VoIP solution, allowing users to make free calls from the WebPhone to anyone on the Internet, with no software installation for the "callee" or the person being called. Additionally, the invited call participant does not require to register with FriendCaller. The peer-to-peer calls work with any browser on Windows, OS X and Linux, and is also available for Android, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Nokia Series 40 SIP Phones, as a Facebook App and for SIP capable clients.

Research In Motion is helping more businesses bring together the desk phone and smartphone. RIM announced plans to make BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5 available to more corporate phone systems and unified communications applications. BlackBerry MVS 5 with voice over Wi-Fi calling will soon be available for Avaya Aura 6.1, Avaya CS1000 Communication Server, as well as legacy phone systems such as Avaya Communications Manager and Nortel Communication Server. It is also currently available for Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Call Manager Express, and Mitel Communications Director. BlackBerry MVS 5 has also been re-architected to be more extensible with third party applications and phone systems.