VoIP Commentary

The VoIP industry is fast paced and ever changing. The VoIP Insider makes keeping up to date with trends, themes and emerging players in the market with weekly editorial commentary from some of the industries best and brightest.

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Consumers cutting VoIP?

There’s an interesting new survey out by Alcatel-Lucent that’s raising some eyebrows within the VoIP industry.
The reason?
The report noted that a portion of the respondents deemed paid VoIP services to be expendable, whilst a land line connection (and a cellular phone) was an essential. This is in stark contrast with a series of surveys and [...]

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Getting your numbers ported faster

Hidden in last week’s news that the FCC would soon be imposing new regulations requiring  VoIP providers to provide “reasonable notice” to customers and regulatory officials before they shut down, was a new rule requiring land line, cellular and VoIP providers to port numbers to another provider within one business day.
It’s funny (to me at [...]

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POTS lines are an endangered species

I know the title of this post is telling you something that you probably already know. Unfortunately, not everyone is as informed as you are.
Case in point, Larry Midge at Cnet.
Larry is worried about land lines. His kid’s prefer their cellphones. He even bought one of them Vonage – which they never even used.
And apparently [...]

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SIP Trunking Redux

Back in October 2008 we featured a piece on SIP Trunking, which explained the basics of the technology and the potential benefits for business users.
SIP Trunking continues to proliferate, and I recently came across some excellent stories related to SIP Trunking that I thought I would share.
Over at NoJitter.com, Alan Percy from Audiocodes [...]

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