Where once business led the way in bringing the cost benefits of cheap internet telephony to the bottom line, consumers are now taking it up and driving its development. This has led to a rush of improvements by telecoms equipment makers to appeal to home users. New offerings are appearing to bridge the gap between standard telephony services and cheaper new telephony offerings.

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A hot new driver of growth in low-end VoIP applications is emerging. The key players go by names such as value-added resellers (VARs), system integrators, IT consultants and the like. Usually small businesses themselves, they’ve been helping other small businesses with their technology needs for a long time.

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Pioneering broadband wireless Internet access supplier, Ice Broadband, has chosen Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) technology to expand its high- speed wireless broadband services to consumers and businesses across the country. Ice has expanded rapidly since its launch in 2006 delivering broadband data and voice services to areas of Ireland with little or no fixed line broadband coverage.

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Today it was announced that a group of American experts and academics have launched a special group to analyze VoIP sewcurity issues and develop ways of its improving. The collaboration sees Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) partnering with BellSouth and Internet Security Systems (ISS).

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A huge VoIP service provider Vonage is now servicing 90% of its subscribers’ lines with E911 therefore being very close to reaching the 100% coverage in the nearest future. This service automatically associates the caller’s telephone number with their physical address. This makes it possible for the 911 emergency service operators to find out where the caller is to send the emergency squad. Earlier it was impossible coming up with various concerns when comparing VoIP and traditional lines.

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Absolutely not. We’ve recently found out that the prominent Adobe team is now working hard integrating various VoIP protocols into their Flash Player. Dr. Henry Sinnreich who is the father of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is now a member of the team. Sounds sweet.

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Two years ago, Siemens Business Services, SAP and Intel Corporation teamed up to develop a joint RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) package for first-time users. Now, Siemens Communications and Intel are reuniting to form a brand-new technology relationship.

The two industry behemoths have agreed to work collaboratively to create open unified communications solutions based on VoIP. The partnership includes an agreement to jointly fund and cooperatively conduct research focused on secure wireless networks and real-time open unified communications in the short term as well as work together longer term to create comprehensive vertical industry collaboration solutions to drive business process optimization for key market segments such as telecommunications service providers, financial services and digital healthcare. Read the rest of this entry »

The ever increasing rivalry in VoIP services industry leads to great changes. Now that the big players come to pick up a considerable share of the multi-billion market, smaller providers have to come up with plans of survival.

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It is now time for the huge telecommunication companies to consider implementing some new technologies into their business and offering new services for their users. VoIP and calling cards rivals are much more dynamic in their development thus creating a serious threat to the previously undisputed leaders of the industry.

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There are no doubts that VoIP is one of the most demanded technologies among those introduced during the last years. Such services as Skype and Vonage were able to earn piles of money and then sell themselves to bigger investors. However, like in any other fast-growing market, there is a danger of new big players coming onto the stage. Big companies always come where there’s still some room for profit.

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