Internet telephony services can “bolt on” to your existing service and provide specific features, such as free or darn cheap long distance calls, call forwarding from desk phone to home phone to cell ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. IBM and ...

Routing voice over WANs has been touted for nearly 10 years but mainstream businesses have only recently begun to reap the benefits The potential savings from using wide area networks (WANs) for ...

Technologically, when a call is dialed over an Internet connection, the conversation is just a fancy form of computer data that barely resembles a typical phone call. Never mind technology, some ...

Primus Telecom this morning became the latest telco to add a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to its broadband offerings. Like existing offerings from iiNet and Internode, Primus' service - ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ooma, Inc., a smart communications platform for businesses and consumers, today announced that TMC, a global integrated media company, has named the Continuous ...

"Siemens is delivering a giant step forward for Internet telephony for the residential market." - Niklas Zennstrom, Skype's chief executive. Skype, the "free Internet telephony that just works" is to ...

Internet television, video telephony and music from the Internet – the living room of the future will become the communication center for the entire house. Siemens Communications has developed a range ...

Online auction leader eBay Inc. took a huge step into the Internet telephony business Monday when it announced it was purchasing Skype Technologies SA for $2.6 billion in cash and stock, plus other ...

Federal regulators on Wednesday agreed to impose or increase universal service fees on wireless and Internet-based phone subscribers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) changed the “safe ...