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The small-to-medium sized business Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone service provider Vocalocity, based in Atlanta, has just been acquired by Vonage. The deal was signed on October 10th, 2013, and both parties agreed to the sale for $105 million in cash and $25 million in Vonage Stock. This $130 million sale marks the industry wide move towards the up and coming SMB VoIP market.
Anyone with family or business partners in foreign countries is all too familiar with how expensive it is to hear their voices with traditional telephone companies. Calls made to suppliers or loved ones should never have to be timed, since these calls go best when there aren’t any time constraints. But with the prices regular phone companies gouge for, how can callers relax enough to simply talk?
It turns out that allowing employees to stay at home leads to healthy workers, and a healthy business in turn. Many employers are skeptical of such practices, such as Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, who revoked several hundred yahoo employees’ telecommuting privileges early this year.
People use the Internet for everything from shopping to making dinner reservations, so why not use it to make phone calls? That’s exactly what millions of people all over the world are doing by switching to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies for their homes and businesses.
Retail Internet companies need to keep up with technological trends, because their customers certainly are. Sticking with a traditional phone system not only means getting left behind in the dust, but to add insult to injury, it will cost more money.
FreedomPop, the mobile virtual network operator, stands poised to become the first to offer a completely IP-based mobile service powered by Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Mobile VoIP phone systems place calls through the Internet instead of through local phone lines, which saves users money while delivering a higher quality phone call.
Project Loon, headed by Google, is a controversial plan to launch self-regulating high-altitude balloons that broadcast access points to WiFi Internet routers. The idea is that these balloons will be deployed in rural areas and developing nations, where the Internet is otherwise unavailable. While the benefits of increased Internet connectivity are obvious, Project Loon is plagued with a few problems that are less visible.
Alliance Phones is a superb hosted VoIP provider. Alliance Phones offers hosted VoIP solutions for small and medium businesses around the country. Alliance Phones focuses purely on business needs, and made the deliberate decision to not sell phone service to residential users in order to fully cater to business innovation.
With offices in New York, New York, and Vancouver, British Columbia, FonAngle is an award-winning business VoIP provider that caters to small and medium-sized businesses. FonAngle offers top-quality platforms that combine voice, fax, instant messaging, mobility, conference call capabilities, and web integration into one system.
You’ve been tapped. Well, that’s the plan at least. Your VoIP phone calls might soon fall into new, broader surveillance laws if the FBI is successful in their new wiretapping proposals.
Privacy advocacy groups and Internet companies are both concerned with the latest news that the FBI wants to overhaul the current surveillance laws to include more forms of Internet communication. However, the FBI and other government agencies see the matter as a national security issue, and a necessity to keep civilians safe.
Wondering about the simple working principles behind VoIP technology? VoIP technology runs on some very simple principles. Basically, VoIP works by connecting telephones and computers through their IP addresses. Every private network that is connected to the Internet has an IP address. An IP address is just like a street address. If you were a packet of data trying to find your way through the Internet, you could find your destination on the map with an IP address.
Earlier today, I saw an article on how Aptela (read Aptela reviews) used AppNeta's application performance management software to diagnose network connectivity problems.
Basically, Aptela found that, in certain cases, spotty call quality was caused not by their service but by the customer's internal Internet network.
The IEEE recently ratified 802.3at, a new Power over Ethernet Plus standard. The IEEE 802.3at-2009 Power over Ethernet (PoE) Plus standard defies the technology for powering a wide range of powered devices at up to 25W over existing CAT5e and above cables.
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