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 ...

Internet telephony, known as "voice over Internet protocol" or VOIP, has grown to be a mainstream application that could someday replace traditional phone service. The market for VOIP is broadening to ...

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 ...

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 - ...

Qwest Communications International on Monday began selling Internet telephone service to a few hundred of its broadband customers in Minnesota. Qwest is selecting initial customers, then providing ...

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 ...

VOIP, or voice over internet protocol, is the technology used to transmit voices over the web. Most users exploiting the technology are still tied to their desktops and require headsets, but ...

If you want to dive into the world of Internet telephony but prefer to use your existing phone—not VoIP software on your Mac —as your primary calling device, you might consider subscribing to an ...

NEW DELHI: Internet service providers (ISPs) asked telecom regulator Trai to permit unrestricted internet telephony, saying that in return they could consider contributing up to five per cent of their ...

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released its recommendations on regulatory framework for Internet telephony business. As per the reports received from 16 service providers, providing ...

March 2005 According to a recent International Telecommunications Union (ITU) report there are two main areas of IP telephony. Firstly, there is Internet telephony which is the transmission of voice ...