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VoIP News

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:34:53 -0000

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irst forum will be held on Tuesday, March 27 at the Cisco building (Level 10, 80 Pacific Highway, North Sydney) from 8:00am until 10:00am (breakfast included).

While the first of the forums will be co-hosted by ISPhone's partner, Linksys, there seems no detail or commitment to further forums.

By educating our Channel Partners and resellers they in turn will be able to properly advise and best serve SMEs on business grade VoIP solutions.

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iTWire - Telstra USA to offer global IP based business services

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:54:58 -0000

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ommPartners is a US competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) that provides wholesale VoIP and enhanced IP applications to carriers, strategic partners and value added resellers. These include the Linksys One IP telephony service for small business, IP PBX, IP trunking, hosted call centre and other IP-based applications for the SMB/E market is the US

Telstra's US subsidiary, Telstra Inc, has partnered with CommPartners - a US provider of IP services for SMEs - to offer VoIP, hosted IP telephony and other applications around the globe.

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Telstra plan to cut red tape derided - National - smh.com.au

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:46:34 -0000

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Given Telstra's margins are higher than any other incumbent telco in the world

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iTWire - Avaya goes for the low end of the SMB IP telephony market

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:27:39 -0000

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He added that the new release would require Avaya's resellers to promote the company's products to a new market of sub 30-employee SMBs, but said "Many of them are already addressing this market with products from other vendors...We will have to persuade them to take our products instead."

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iTWire - Avaya goes for the low end of the SMB IP telephony market

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:26:27 -0000

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The new IP Office 500 Communications Server, aimed at businesses with 10-30 users starts at a price which Avaya says is 25 percent lower than the entry level price of its current hardware.

Avaya has introduced Release 4.0 of its SMB IP telephony software Avaya IP Office, a five year-old product installed in 90,000 businesses worldwide and in 4000 in Australian and New Zealand.

Avaya has introduced new IP telephony hardware and software that it says wil enable it to address SMBs with as few as two employees, in contrast to its current SMB offerings which are aimed at the 301-100 employee market.

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VoIP News

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:43:09 -0000

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Warhurst found a new home with ShoreTel, a company with many similarities to his previous employer.

Warhurst, erstwhile Country Manager for SME VoIP provider Zultys is back in Australia after spending time in the United States training on a new set of products designed to revolutionise small and medium enterprise communications and so far business looks promising he says.

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VoIP News

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:40:55 -0000

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partnership between Freshtel and Tesco has been hugely beneficial so far and we look forward to continued success and many new opportunities," he said.

push to achieve a global footprint in the emerging whitelabel VoIP business.

Freshtel founder and CEO, Michael Carew has stepped aside to focus on winning more business as the wholesale VoIP provider re-jigs its senior executive in what appears to be a prelude to major International expansion.

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BuddeBlog » Blog Archive » A new CEO for Telecom New Zealand

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:29:53 -0000

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main customers will be those companies whose future rests in digital media and other Internet-based operations. This will include the government, healthcare, education, big business and media, as well as many of the few hundred thousand small businesses in the country.

Telecom needs to change from a subscription-based telephone company to a wholesale-based/Internet economy/infrastructure company.

underinvested in its local access network and it is now paying the price for this. Its customers are unhappy – either about the lack of broadband or about the quality of those services.

t Telecom is going to concentrate increasingly on its infrastructure. It has brought the timeframe of its infrastructure upgrade forwards from 2012 to 2008 and I predict that the money from Yellow Pages will be used to fund some of the new infrastructure plans.

PowerTel acquisition is Telecom’s third attempt at achieving new growth, which I agree can only come from other markets such as Australia

failure of the AAPT acquisition, also, is clearly something for which Gattung is responsible – again taking an arrogant monopolistic approach, thinking the best way to proceed was to integrate the challenger AAPT into the incumbent Telecom, a strategic error of the highest order.

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Competitor analysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:49:47 -0000

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rank the key success factors by giving each one a weighting

what the key success factors are in your industr

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VeMail - Market Clarity Newsletter: VoIP Services - Shara Evans

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:37:24 -0000

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The challenge for providers is to survive until the VoIP services market is stable. VoIP providers can’t live on excitement alone: in 2007, they will need information, planning, and execution.

VoIP as a means by which they can reduce churn.

Both of these will feed wholesale suppliers, the “third arm” of the VoIP services market.

make the VoIP services case more compelling to the business customer

Capex cycles (how long until the TDM PABX needs replacement?);
Integration and process re-engineering (will VoIP help support other business process initiatives?);

Total cost of ownership (how does a VoIP system stack up against a TDM PABX in terms of price/performance and value?); and
Skills availability (can you find the personnel needed to maintain a TDM system in the long term?).

Price is important — but a great many other considerations are also in play for the business user, including:

during 2007, business VoIP revenue will outstrip residential revenue, a trend that will continue through 2011 and beyond.

“whitebox” wholesale VoIP revolution has continued to drive rapid growth in the number of VoIP service providers.

Wholesale VoIP services available to the retail market include branded bundles (such as Engin), ‘back office’ functions such as billing management, or complete “white box” wholesale offerings which include all necessary technology and infrastructure, with the retailer adding its own brand to the product (such solutions include WCG’s VOBphone wholesale product).

The hypothetical user would only save around $3 per month using Skype compared to the local provider if he or she took the cheapest plan.

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iTWire - Nortel & Microsoft flesh out unified comms alliance

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:12:46 -0000

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extend their current combined soft phone for VoIP, e-mail, instant messaging and presence client software for PCs to work with the Nortel Communication Server 2100, a carrier-grade IP PBX system supporting up to 200,000 users on a single system.

Nortel Multimedia Conferencing and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 will be integrated to deliver "a single, familiar client experience consistent across applications such as voice, instant messaging, presence, and audio- and videoconferencing." The is planned to be available in the fourth quarter of 2007.

In the second quarter of 2007 the two plan to offer native session initiation protocol (SIP) interoperability between the Nortel Communication Server 1000 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

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iTWire - Nortel & Microsoft flesh out unified comms alliance

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:10:57 -0000

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UC Integrated Branch. This incorporates Nortel and Microsoft technology on a single piece of hardware and promises to deliver "cost-effective, high-quality and easy-to-deploy VoIP and unified communications in remote offices.

new product offerings are:

hree new joint product offerings

1 new implementation services from Nortel and the opening of more than 20 joint demonstration centres in North America, Europe and Asia,

CEOs of Microsoft and Nortel have fleshed out their joint plan for the global enterprise unified communications market, announced in July 2006 when they formed the Innovative Communication Alliance (ICA).

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2007: Let the crystal ball gazing begin: ZDNet Australia: News: Communications

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:55:29 -0000

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technologies

Voice over Internet Protocol: The adoption of VoIP by both consumers and enterprises will accelerate -- particularly as more ISPs start to bundle it with broadband to consumers.

Volante buys that respectively gave Optus and Commander bigger, pure IT systems integration assets. >

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Asterisk provider pricing

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:14:20 -0000

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t’s been a while since we last looked at the VoIP Providers that make Internet telephony hum with Asterisk systems. So today we wanted to share our experiences with the best of the best over the past six months. For those just making the plunge, our most important rule of thumb remains the same: DON’T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET. Particularly in the Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP) business, there are some excellent small providers that tend to be one-man bands. And, without casting a spell on anyone, you certainly need to be aware that these small companies depend upon the good health of their fearless leaders to survive. As Forrest Gump would say, “Stuff happens.”

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Telstra is a tale of two technologies - Business - Business - smh.com.au

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:31:41 -0000

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Its overall margin of earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation as a proportion of revenue fell from 48.6 per cent to 46.3 per cent. EBITDA fell 3.4 per cent.

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Web Host Industry News | Primus Launches Partner Program

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:24:30 -0000

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Primus business partner program, offering partners enhanced solution sets and increased revenue potential.

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VoIP News

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:12:24 -0000

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IP Telephony, data, VPNs and value-added services such as hosted PBXs, converged services, presence management, unified messaging and audio and video conferencing, says the company.

OneStream Offi >ce and it bundles a hosted PBX solution, business-grade Internet and CPE > equipment including advanced IP phones >. You get the phone calls thrown into the bundle and pay for it at a set price per user per month.

number of services and hosted solutions into bundles you can pay for by the month.

turning to the SMB market with a solutions suite based on its OneStream network

convergence network using building blocks from Cisco and Ericsson

Commander Launches New Services Brand

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iTWire - Microsoft gets into telephony

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:57:59 -0000

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deployed with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, which "complements the voice capabilities of Office Communications Server 2007 with a built-in auto-attendant for answering and routing inbound voice calls as well as unified messaging that unifies voice mail and e-mail in a single inbox."

capabilities available in the private beta are: "placing and receiving voice calls; advanced call routing...multiparty conferencing; call holding, forwarding and transferring; and compliance capabilities." Microsoft adds that these are all possible "while working in concert with existing telephony infrastructure," but this begs the question of why that existing infrastructure is necessary

Communications Server 2007 already sounds very much like an IP PBX.

Customers will also able to leverage the softphone capabilities of Office Communicator to make and receive phone calls from their PCs, eliminating the need to purchase expensive IP-compatible phones."

designed to interwork with IP PBXs from the likes of Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, Mitel, NEC etc but already Microsoft is suggesting that enterprise will be able to do away with desk phones, which account for a significant portion of revenue in IP telephony systems sales

allow workers to instantly launch a phone call from 2007 Microsoft Office applications, such as Office Word 2007, Office Outlook 2007 or Office Communicator, by simply clicking on a colleague's name to determine his or her availability and initiate a person-to-person or multiparty call."

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VoIP News

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:39:04 -0000

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Nortel has entered the managed VoIP service market big time with a global announcement that seems targeted at medium to large enterprise looing for a solution to do it yourself IP Telephony.

Nortel calls Proactive Voice Quality Management (PVQM) provides round-the-clock IP telephony network operation and management, along with the industry's first comprehensive, real-time support for VoIP quality of service, says the company

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VoIP News

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:34:33 -0000

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BigAir announced its own VoIP services more than a year ago, though it's been very quite on that front and the VoIP service which included an IP Centrex offering rates zero space on the company's website, so may have quietly died already.

MyNetFone is making a bid for the heart and phones of SMBs by teaming up with junior telco the wireless broadband carrier BigAir.

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