Codima has announced the launch of operations in the French market.
The VoIP software tools provider is to offer sales, marketing and support to new and existing resellers throughout France from offices in Paris.
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The US had almost one million installed hosted IP telephony lines at the end of 2008.
This figure is expected to grow to about 3.6 million lines in 2014, according to a report by Frost & Sullivan.
Google today launched a free service in the US called Google Voice that gives users access to all their phones, voicemail and text messages through one phone number.
The move is being seen as a threat to Skype – but also to telecom operators and technology firms.
Vyke today announced it has formed a partnership with mobile social networking company Nimbuzz.
The move is intended to build upon the strengths of both Vyke and Nimbuzz by combining the former’s paid mVoIP service with the latter’s mobile peer to peer mobile social messaging and VoIP services.
One of the US’s largest providers of VoIP solutions, Cypress Communications, is to announce shortly that it is expanding operations into Europe and the Middle East.
After more than 20 years providing managed communication solutions to clients across the States, the Atlanta, Georgia-based company is to extend its network internationally.
VoIP telephone services in Western Europe leapt to just under 30 million consumer lines by mid-2008 – up from 20 million only a year earlier.
That figure has continued to climb and totalled 35 million lines at the end of the year, according to a survey by researchers TeleGeography.
The worldwide market for carrier VoIP equipment has stalled after a pro-longed period of double-digit annual revenue growth that began in 2002.
This led to the market contracting for the first time ever in 2008, with a drop in revenue of 6 per cent, according to Infonetics Research.
Skype is to license for free a high-quality audio codec in its latest VoIP software to any developer or vendor.
Called Silk, the "super-wideband" codec delivers a sound quality that captures the full sound of the human voice.
IPsmarx was named as joint winner of the 2008 voip-biz.news Product of the Year Award last week for its SIP-based calling card platform.
Carrie Hartford Fedders, account manager with IPsmarx, spoke to voip-biz.news about the solution, which eliminates the need for a VoIP gateway and PSTN lines using DID (Direct Inward Dialing)
technology.
Operators O2 and Orange have reacted to plans by Nokia to embed Skype in handsets and may refuse to stock the N97.
Skype is linking up with Nokia to embed its calling software in the Finnish company’s new handsets.