Vonage is allowing customers to extend their Vonage home calling plans to any phone, including mobiles. The move allows customers to use Vonage's signature unlimited international calling plans from their mobile phones to call friends and family abroad. The new service offering -- Extensions -- is free to all Vonage customers and builds upon Vonage's history of providing unsurpassed value to customers for both domestic and international calling.

Existing customers can add any U.S. phone number as an extension by logging into their online account at www.vonage.com. The extension phone number can be a cell phone, a home phone or even an office number. Once registered, the service works like a virtual calling card. Simply dial the access number and international destination number and the call is connected over the Vonage network.

Goober Networks announces the immediate availability of its CallingAmerica web-based solution, offering anyone in America with a broadband connection to place free VoIP calls to any landline or mobile phone in the United States. Goober’s CallingAmerica platform also gives callers access to make calls internationally to select countries, which include Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. This latest service from Goober is aimed at providing users with access to calling landlines, both domestically and internationally, which is currently not offered by competing VoIP providers, such as Skype.

Thinking Phone Networks announces that leading industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has included the Company among the top cloud VoIP service providers in its 2011 “Competitive Landscape: Cloud-based VoIP Providers, North America” report, published July 7, 2011.

“As Gartner mentions, the cloud VoIP market is evolving, with an increasing number of enterprises looking to cloud communications to avoid capital expenditures, reduce technology risk, lower ongoing costs, and streamline business processes,” said Steve Kokinos, Thinking Phone Networks president & CEO. “Thinking Phone Networks is proud to be among the leading cloud communications providers in this key growth market.”

Citrus Telecom has introduced DIGITALK’s Session Border Controller VoIP Peering to their established DIGITALK network. The VoIP Peering application will allow Citrus to rapidly add multiple carrier groups and interconnects to terminate traffic, offering their customers greater service flexibility than other competing facilities management providers. To Citrus this also means greater operations efficiency as they are able to automate routing options in real time to critically control profitability.

The advanced routing capabilities within the DIGITALK VoIP Peering solution provides application service providers with precise control over route selection based on carrier cost, quality and margin. Specifically, quality indicators such as ASR, ACD and PDD regulate service levels and provide the ability to offer different grades of service to their customers. Margin-based routing criteria can be applied to ensure traffic is routed without loss or within a minimum profit threshold meaning Citrus have control over and are protected from loss-making routes.

PortaOne announces the successful completion of interoperability testing between PortaOne's PortaSwitch VoIP call control/subscriber management platform and MailVision's PICO Mobile VoIP Client Management System. The compatibility is a major advancement for VoIP telephony providers and their customers, enabling easy, inexpensive VoIP calling and value-added services on smart devices including iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, Android, BlackBerry and Nokia smartphones.

MailVision's PICO Mobile Client system supports private-branded delivery of high quality VoIP telephony and SMS via WiFi and 3G data networks. The PICO mobile client is distributed, managed, configured and upgraded remotely by the Client Management System that gives telcos, NGNs, ITSPs and carriers a complete solution for managing business, residential and roaming customers.

Broadband IP telephony is used to transport voice calls over an IP network, and, if need be, to connect to the PSTN. This looks like traditional telephone service to the end-user and, in the case of cable VoIP service, is often marketed as a “digital” voice service, leaving many users unaware that they are using a VoIP service. This has been a popular form of VoIP in both the work-at-home and small business arenas, and that trend will continue according to new In-Stat research, which forecasts that the small office (1 to 4 employees) spend on broadband IP telephony will increase by 83% from 2010-2015.

Twilio announces the release of Twilio Client, a software toolkit for web, iOS, and Android development. With Twilio Client, mobile and web developers can now enable voice communications within any application by programmatically embedding two-way audio between their users on websites, inside web and mobile applications, and with traditional landline and office phones.

With Twilio Client, millions of web developers worldwide can now build Skype-like voice capabilities with Twilio’s scalable, reliable communications infrastructure-as-a-service. With just a few lines of code, web and mobile applications can host voice conversations, conference calls, and other forms of rich communication. Twilio Client works simultaneously across platforms, allowing web browsers, mobile phones, and tablets running iOS or Android to communicate seamlessly. The service also integrates with traditional phone service and SMS using Twilio’s existing web service APIs for making and receiving phone calls and text messages.

snom has forged a new technology partnership with SIP Print, a maker of SIP-based call recording, accounting and management software. After a battery of tests, SIP Print’s call recording platform has been approved as interoperable with snom’s portfolio of desktop phones and IP PBXs, including the snom ONE plus IP PBX appliance.

With both companies well-entrenched in the small and medium-sized business space, the partnership offers smaller companies and organizations an enterprise-class solution for call recording and accounting in a package designed specifically for SMBs. For organizations either required to track and record calls for compliance reasons, such as emergency call centers or small financial or legal institutions, or interested in call recording for internal business intelligence purposes, the snom-SIP Print combination provides an easily installed and managed, end-to-end solution with minimal capital investment.

VoIP Supply is happy to announce the addition of new Valcom IP Paging devices for mass notification and real time IP voice.

Paging system solutions for schools, manufacturers, hospitals, and businesses were traditionally a separate analog based system. Elimination of that separate analog system is possible with Valcom IP page controls that tie into an existing IP network that most institutions already employ for data and VoIP phones.

SPIRIT DSP announced that its TeamSpirit Voice Engine Mobile is enabling HD VoIP calling on the recently launched (July 19) Viber application for Android mobile devices, allowing Viber's Android users to experience the highest call quality possible. SPIRIT's Voice Engine Mobile has been powering the extremely popular free Viber application since it first came to market in Dec 2010 for iPhone users.

The Viber application lets iPhone and Android users make free HD Viber-to-Viber calls and send messages over 3G and Wi-Fi connections, bypassing the use of any cellular voice minutes. Today, SPIRIT's Voice Engine Mobile is powering quality Viber-to-Viber free calling to more than 20 million Viber-reported registered users on both Android and iPhone devices, representing a reported call traffic volume of more than one billion minutes of calls per quarter.

MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "North American Mobile VoIP Market 2010-2014," to their collection of Telecommunications market reports.

The North American Mobile VoIP market is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 57 percent over the period of 2010-2014. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the need to reduce the cost of communication. The North American Mobile VoIP market has also been witnessing increasing competition among vendors to offer cheaper services.

Junction Networks announced a promotion aimed at lowering the capital expense of switching to hosted VoIP. Beginning today, July 21st, a purchase of any five Polycom phones with the OnSIP provisioning package installed will earn the buyer a $300 credit towards their OnSIP account.

“In addition to achieving greater flexibility and productivity, businesses switching to hosted VoIP usually experience fairly dramatic cost savings,” said Rob Wolpov, President of Junction Networks. “But, there is a hurdle to get over first: the capital outlay of buying new phones. We’re stepping up to help customers get past that hurdle because we are confident OnSIP will exceed their expectations as an affordable and robust business communications service.”

Voip-Pal.Com and Bleam Technology Ventures announce that the two companies have reached an agreement for Voip-Pal to acquire Bleam Technology and its product and services including CallArc.com. Bleam Technology owns and operates CallArc.com, a mobile VoIP calling service. CallArc.com offers an alternative to expensive long distance and international calls by engaging callers with advertisers.

"We are delighted to welcome Bleam Technology into the Voip-Pal family," announces Dennis Chang, President of Voip-Pal. "Bleam and its CallArc services represent an established VoIP service which is in perfect synergy with Voip-Pal's products and services and our future plans. Along with Bleam's 43,000 loyal subscribers, we inherit a team of technical experts that will help develop Voip-Pal's model to the next level."

Already more than 25 million Apple iPads have been sold worldwide but no iPads are voice telephony enabled when they come out of the box. This represents a huge new market segment for Coms, as its services can be provided over the iPad’s inbuilt WiFi or GSM modem.

iPad subscribers can choose a new Coms telephone number from more than 250 area codes in the UK, including principle telephone suffixes such as London or Birmingham. The service includes free advanced telephone features such as voicemail, call forwarding, voice to email and calling line identifier display, as well as low cost call plans to all international locations.

MegaPath is listed as one of the Top 10 hosted VoIP providers in Infonetics Research’s North America Business VoIP Services Leadership Scorecard. Infonetics recognized the company for its financial stability, support options and go-to-market strategy in the report.

The North America Business VoIP Services Leadership Scorecard is part of Infonetics’ annual VoIP and Unified Communications Services and Subscribers Report. The report identifies the leading service providers in the hosted VoIP and IP connectivity markets based on several leading measurements including client install base, financial stability, market strategy, service capabilities and support options.