Skype Adds More Termination

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Skype has announced another termination agreement, this time in Norway. As Skype keeps cutting these kinds of deals, and as they link the various networks together the sound quality of Skype Out has to only improve.

Voice Over WiMax Interest Growing

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Voice over WiMax interest and demand will grow, once the standards for WiMax get sorted out according to a report. The big reason for this is the fact that WiMax enables the ability to put next generation services where they aren’t now. Developing countries, outlying regions here in the USA where interest for Internet exists, … Read more

California PUC Gives Up VoIP Power

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Last night the California Public Utilities Commission gave up its attempts to regulate VoIP in the state, formally saying that the FCC is in charge. While consumer watchdog groups think this will be the end of regulation as they know it of phone service, what this really means is the first step towards a national … Read more

SkypeIn Now Out For Real

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The folks at Skype have officially announced Skype In and Skype VoiceMail. i have both. They work fine. Skype continues to offer phone like services for fractions of the cost of regular phone service. For college students who talk mostly to each other and pals from high school this is far better than Vonage’s College … Read more

Comcast Outage Plagues VoIP Carriers

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On my daily broadcast for KenRadio I fill in co-host Peter York who is a data networking expert explained that the issue with Comcast was their having a faulty DNS server. That likely led to this whole issue. The problem wasn’t AT&T’s and this could have easily been Vonage or Packet 8 who got broad … Read more

Skype Research Group Started

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A new research project about Skype has been started by one of the Blog experts in India. Check out Dina’s post on Stuart’s Skype Journal. I’m beginning to wonder if Skype is behind any of this !