Lingo VoIP has a new offer which makes it one of the best options for international callers who make frequent calls to certain countries. Callers will get unlimited long distance calling in the USA and to 45 countries with Lingo for the low rate of $21.95 per month. During the current sign-up special, new customers will get one month of Free Service, Free activation, Free …  Read More →

VoIP is an abbreviation of the phrase “Voice over Internet Protocol”. VoIP is not about a single process. Rather, it refers to an entire set of modern communication processes. Basically, it covers all means of voice communication via the Internet. VoIP has become increasingly popular due to its many benefits. For one thing, it assures  Read More →

Skype, the Internet voice and video company has ambitions that go beyond simply offering cheap voice. The company now wants to turn itself into a communication platform that is embedded in various computer applications, consumer electronics and mobile devices. It is a strategy that it learned from Netflix . In order to do that the company is ramping up its presence in Silicon Valley. It currently has about 80 people in Silicon Valley but it... 

Mig33, a mobile social service with 34 million members, in October of last year decided to shift its center of gravity to where its customers were: Asia. It was a high-risk move for the company, which has raised $13.5 million in funding from Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and DCM . But so far, it seems to be paying off. The company is on track to break even by the second half of 2010 and be profitable by end of the year, CEO and founder Steven... 

Skype is launching a new set of subscription plans that would make it even cheaper to call landline and mobile phones in about 170 countries. They come as a 60-minute to unlimited calling packages and are available in 1-month, 3-month and 12-month plans. Skype says that prices to many (if not all locations) across the globe are going to be around a penny a minute. The…  Read More →

Rates on international calls to India have dropped dramatically over the past few years due to increased competition and a reduction in regulations. It is now possible to call India from the USA for just over 1 cent per minute with a phone card and some international VoIP plans even allow unlimited international calling to India from North America. There is so much competition in this market that it is tough to keep up with all of the new products.... 

Peter Sisson, the founder and chief executive officer of Toktumi , a San Francisco-based VoIP startup, is elated. He was jumping with joy when I spoke with him earlier today. Why? Because Apple just approved the latest version (2.0) of his company’s mobile VoIP app, Line2. The app, which costs 99 cents, allows you to call and receive phone calls over both 3G and Wi-Fi networks. What Toktumi has done is build a back end similar to that... 

Skype and Verizon are likely to announce a brand new partnership tomorrow at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), currently being held in Barcelona. The two companies are keeping mum about their plans. Just not quiet enough. The Verizon-Skype partnership isn’t going to mimic the relationship between Skype and 3 U.K, a division of Hutchison Whampoa . The result of that partnership was the launch of Skypephone. In that specific case, 3 U.K.... 

When it comes to mobile, time is literally money. Carriers like AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and the rest make us pay based on how many minutes we use — or in the case of prepaid plans, expect to use. If we want to talk more, we can expect to pay more. But VoIP over 3G networks could drastically change that. Callers could place calls for little or no fee with VoIP apps and in the process, opt for less expensive plans with less... 

Apple and AT&T have come under continued criticism for not allowing VoIP over today’s 3G mobile broadband connections when using the iPhone. So much so that the matter got the attention of the FCC back in August, leading to explanations  from Apple and Ma Bell . A few weeks ago, we had wondered why there were still no VoIP-over-3G connections. More recently, others asked that very question. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski  sidestepped... 

When a crappy economy meets VoIP, cheaper IP telecommunications win, according to research out today from TeleGeography showing that Skype is taking market share from the international calling market. TeleGeography found that the projected growth of international telephone traffic was almost halved in 2009 — to a mere 8 percent — while Skype’s growth accelerated by 51 percent. TeleGeography also notes that over the past 25 years,... 

Skype , a big proponent of open networks and net neutrality, in a filing today with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) argued that net neutrality was “about growing the broadband ecosystem and preserving a borderless, open Internet” and it would “promote investment, jobs and innovation.” The company said that it “welcomes the Commission’s focus on preserving an open Internet and strongly supports…  Read More →

Google is “just scratching the surface” with Google Voice, Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product Management, said today on eWeek.com , and will move aggressively next year to further blur the line between telephony and the Internet. And as the search giant turns voice into an application and dives deeper into carriers’ domain, network operators will have to find ways to leverage their networks and provide competing apps and services... 

O2, a division of Telefonica, a Spanish telecommunications company, is in talks to acquire Jajah, a VoIP startup, for about $200 million, Reuters reported today. The company had raised $35 million from various investors including Deutsche Telekom, Intel Capital and Sequoia Capital . According to some rumors, Microsoft and Cisco Systems were also bidding for Jajah, which has had its shares of ups and downs. The company is over 4 years old and... 

Making international phone calls from France or other European countries to the USA has never been easier or cheaper. As consumer prices continue to climb the cost of making international phone calls continue to drop. This is the result of increased competition and advances in technology. It is now possible to make free international calls using PC-to-Phone service or other INTERNET based technologies like VoIP phone service from nearly any location...