Value of VoIP resonates with Long Island medical group: level 3 implementation cuts communications costs by 40 percent.
When Stefanie Bruemmer, the IT director for Queens Long Island Medical Group (QLIMG) in suburban New York, decided it was time to replace the legacy Avaya PBX system with new technology, she was looking to cut costs and minimize the capital outlay for replacement hardware. "I was...

Consolidated Telcom delivers latest VoIP software to rural N.D.
For many years, the City of Dickinson, Southwest Multi-County Correction Center and the Stark County government offices had separate telephone systems. The staff's multiple phone lines between the six government entities resulted in costly telephone bills each month. It wasn't long before several city and county officials decided something...

When distance becomes irrelevant: has the walk toward extinction begun for the IXCs?
Pressure is mounting on long distance providers to more quickly broaden their product offerings or face the possibility of a new round of bankruptcies. Financial report cards are in from the first quarter of the year, and the results show a continued erosion of customers and profits...

Steppe stumbling: AT&T's Russian calling card conundrum--and a call for action on VNXX minutes.
Confusion and chaos have been used to enable folks--with zero investment in facilities-based switching assets--to obtain virtual office codes (VNXX).These are then used to avoid paying toll access charges via Internet technology. That in turn permits Vonage123.com to offer nationwide unlimited access at $40 per month. As...

Asian telcos get serious about VoIP: Hong Kong's enormous metro Ethernet, mainland China's massive growth, Singapore's PBX gains. (From AN's international bureaus).
HONG KONG -- Every major carrier in Asia (including NTT, Telstra, PCCW, SingTel, China Telecom, and China Netcom) is either testing or deploying voice over IP (VoIP). After years of predicting about the annexation of modern TDM or circuit-switched networks by IP, the change is under way. ...

Looting the RBOC general store. (Far forward: trends and analysis of telecom developments).
Those stalwart Bells, the companies that are supposed to provide refuge from the telecom storm, are struggling themselves to find sanctuary in the bruising battle over local access. The four big local telcos made humbling revelations in recent weeks about declines in their core business of providing...

Telephony products enhance convenience, communication & distance learning.
Telephones and POTS (plain old telephone service) lines are one of the most-used technologies in existence, but probably the least appreciated. But now, with the proliferation of interactive voice response (IVR) applications and the move toward computer telephony integration (CTI) in consumer and commercial PCs, this 120-year-old technology is...

ARAB TELECOMS: MONOPOLIES CHALLENGED.
Throughout the Arab world, state telecom monopolies are being challenged, both by advocates of privatisation, and by consumers who are turning to new forms of communication, including mobile phone systems and Internet telephony. The challenge is urgent; telecoms are vital for survival in the modern global economy. ...

Talk is cheap.
While diplomats bicker over telecom trade rules, new technologies are shattering protectionist barriers. "Dial the world. Talk forever. Never Pay Long-Distance." This is the sales pitch for Digiphone, a software package that lets personal computer users talk to people across the country or around the world for the price...

Earnings Report: Nice Systems Ltd.
Nice Systems Ltd, the Ra'Annana, Israel developer of digital recording technology, said second quarter net income was $4.3m compared to $5.1m in the period last year, as revenue grew 19% to $28.5m. First half revenues grew 17% to $55m. Nice said its increased focus on the call center market...