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Articles tagged with: Voip
Vonage To Pay $3 Million To Settle Consumer Complaints
Internet telephone provider Vonage says it will pay $3 million to 32 states who sued the company on behalf of consumers. Without admitting to any wrongdoing, Vonage also said it would give refunds to affected consumers and change its business practices. more
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Vonage 3Q loss widens on charge linked to rally
Vonage Holdings posts wider 3rd-quarter loss on charge booked because of late August rally more
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Venezuelan VoIP hacker caught, back in court Friday
Edwin Pena, 26, of Venezuela allegedly hacked into the networks of VoIP service providers and routed his customer's traffic through the compromised networks. more
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Mobile VoIP in Europe Unlikely to Achieve Mass Market Soon
Fitch Ratings says today that mobile voip (voice over internet protocol) in the European telecoms industry is unlikely to achieve mass market take up for some time. However, as network quality improves, selective usage of mobile voip could start to impact operators' revenue from higher tariff services like international calls and voice roaming. more
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FCC launches probe of Google Voice service
Federal regulators will look into complaints by AT&T that Google's free messaging and calling service, Google Voice, blocks calls to rural communities where local phone companies charge high connection fees. more
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AT&T to Enable VoIP services on iPhone
AT&T said late Tuesday that it will begin allowing iPhone owners to use Internet calling services on its wireless network. more
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Vonage releases calling app for iPhone, BlackBerry
Vonage Holdings, a pioneer in Internet-based home phone service, is launching applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry that undercut the international calling rates of major wireless carriers. more
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Mobile VoIP Could Transform Mobile Landscape
Mobile voip is moving beyond its initial function as a new mechanism to get inexpensive international calls, reports In-Stat. While Mobile voip still poses a direct threat to operator voice revenue, it also represents a dynamic new capability that promises numerous applications. In-Stat projects that by 2013 Mobile voip applications will generate annual revenues of $32.2 billion, driven by over 278 million registered users worldwide. more
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Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIP
Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations that go over computers instead of a regular phone line. more
EBay to sell part of telecom service Skype for $2B
EBay is trading control of the online telecommunications service Skype for about $2 billion, reversing a 2005 acquisition that many analysts considered a head scratcher from the beginning. more
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