My parents are scheduled to close on their new house a week from today! One major hassle about moving is telling everyone your new phone number. Enter Vonage. Most VoIP providers allow you to transfer your old land-line number over to VoIP. When you move, simply take your VoIP modem with [...]
From Slashdot:
Keynote Systems Inc. made 154,000 VOIP calls during the months of May and June. In total they tested six VOIP providers and seven ISPs. Their conclusion was that VOIP isn’t quite as robust as the public phone network due to dropped calls, lower audio quality, and latency (audio delay), but it is still pretty [...]
From Engadget:
Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom announced the company plans to put out a VoWLAN phone, which will allow customers to connect to the Skype voice network via WiFi. Not too many specifics were given, other than that it’ll be out later this year. Let’s hope they inject it with a little more style than Vonage’s [...]
Engadget is reporting that Vonage and Uniden are teaming up to add support for Vonage’s VoIP broadband phone service to Uniden’s UIP1869V cordless phone base station. The base station will have a VoIP gate built in! I’ve already got Vonage and Uniden cordless phones. Time to upgrade? We’ll see…
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This is great news for VoIP users! I’m currently in an area serviced by SBC, so hopefully this means true 911 service in the future.
SBC Communications announced plans on Wednesday to help Internet phone companies offer more-reliable 911 services for their subscribers, becoming the last of the Baby Bells to tackle worrisome emergency-service defects.
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NewsFactor Network - Tech Trends - FCC To Require 911 for VoIP
The FCC has expressed concern after hearing about lawsuits against Vonage, in which users sued the company for inadequately warning them about the potential inability to dial 911 through its services in an emergency.
The article doesn’t mention a timeline for the regulation, but I [...]
Verizon is joining Quest communications in opening up their 911 netowrks to VoIP companies. Verizon will be testing in New York City with Vonage over the summer, and if that goes well, they will open it up to more cities.
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Vonage cracks into market dominated by landlines | CNET News.com
Net phone operator Vonage has teamed up with Alarm.com to tackle a common problem that has kept some consumers with home alarm systems from subscribing to Internet phone services.
This is a smart move for Vonage. Next to 911 service, home alarm systems is probably the [...]
In true AOL fashion, Nate Kettlewell, AOL product manager for voice services, calls the company’s VoIP offering easy to set up and use. At $40/month for non-subscribers (after promotion period ends), I’m not sure why anyone would choose this service.
I currently use Vonage and couldn’t be happier. At $15/month, the price is right!
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Automatic Asset Location System uses Wi-Fi Access Point Triangulation | digg this story
Barcoding Inc. has created an application that automatically detects the location of an asset using standard wireless infrastructure.
Does this mean any unique wifi device can be located? If true, people using WiFi enabled pdas, laptops, or even VoIP phones can be physically [...]