ip telephony in news
Procter & Gamble in $650m network deal with BT
News BT will provide a state-of-the-art, high speed, IP-based, firewall protected network that will offer conferencing, remote access, voice calls, IP telephony and internet services. Consumer packaged goods manufacturer Procter and Gamble (P&G) has... [10 Jun 2008]
Aviva signs £300m comms deal
News It is expected that the move to IP telephony will significantly reduce costs for the insurance group. The insurance company, which was formed from Norwich Union and GNU (itself the union of Commercial Union and General Accident) in 2002, will be... [13 May 2008]
Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract
News AT&T will deliver WAN and LAN, voice services including IP-based telephony, managed security solutions, mobility services and will support Shell's Virtual Private Network service for more than 50,000 remote workers. [31 Mar 2008]
BT wins £62m outsourcing deal from KPMG Europe
News BT will be responsible for KPMG's wide area network and local area network refresh and management, deployment of Cisco IP telephony, integration with an existing Microsoft Office Communications Server platform, video and audio conferencing. [31 Mar 2008]
C&W hooks up with Orange over FMC
News The benefits of FMC to enterprise are it has the potential to cut mobile costs - by utilising VoIP in the office - while also reducing the number of telephony devices a company needs. Fixed-mobile convergence enables a single device to be used to... [05 Mar 2008]
Swinton Insurance gets chatty with IP tech
News High street insurance chain Swinton has completed a roll-out of IP telephony and contact centre technology from Alcatel-Lucent. Swinton paid €2.5m for improved call handling and internal communications across 450 sites aimed at boosting the... [21 Feb 2008]
eBay takes $900m hit for Skype buy
News This means eBay has been forced to reassess the value of the internet telephony company relative to its overall business today. Even though Skype has grown into the largest voice over IP provider on the planet, the bottom line is clear - it still... [02 Oct 2007]
Vonage loses bulk of Verizon patent appeal
News And as the legal dust settles, the small voice over IP company now faces the possibility of paying hefty monetary damages and a total shutdown of its IP telephony service. Essentially, US Patent No.and US Patent No.define how phone calls are routed... [27 Sep 2007]
Vonage infringed Sprint patents, says jury
News A US federal jury has found internet telephony player Vonage infringed on six patents held by Sprint Nextel. This is the latest in a series of legal setbacks the voice over IP provider has faced this year. [26 Sep 2007]
Cisco and Microsoft fall in love?
News This collaboration will focus on unified communications tech - essentially the convergence of telephony, email, instant messaging and videoconferencing using IP technology. The recent display of public affection between Cisco and Microsoft will... [22 Aug 2007]
Urban wireless networks set to surge
News He said: "Our idea was that the [Milton Keynes] network was built not just for internet access but to support voice over IP and that's really beginning to pick up as the [Apple] iPhone is coming out, people are becoming more aware of internet... [26 Jul 2007]
VoIP services must offer 999, says watchdog
News The number of households who say they have used VoIP telephony has grown rapidly - from around 1.2 million households at the end of 2005 to around 2.4 million households at the end of 2006. Voice over IP phone services must allow users to make 999... [26 Jul 2007]
NHS slashes costs with VoIP upgrade
News A hosted voice service will allow smaller NHS organisations to have their IP telephony hosted by BT - taking away the management of the infrastructure and billing. Voice over IP (VoIP) has been added to the BT managed infrastructure, allowing free... [23 Jul 2007]
Government strikes £105m network deal
News The extension of the contract brings with it new developments in IP telephony hosting and mobile working. Originally signed in 1996, the deal involves the provision of managed IP network services to 125,000 public sector employees within 90 UK... [13 Jun 2007]
VPNs, IP telephony biggest homeworking headaches
News It was chosen by 37 per cent of respondents as the remote working technology that causes the most headaches in a survey commissioned by IP telephony company, ShoreTel. IP telephony and PDAs linking to office email followed VPN as the trickiest... [11 Jun 2007]
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