The complete list of winning companies is available today in a special issue of FierceVoIP and on the FierceVoIP Web site at http://www.fiercevoip.com/top-voip-companies-2006.

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"After deep thought, long and careful deliberations, numerous trips to the coffee pot, three bottles of Visine and an absolute minimum of coin-flipping, I am delighted to present the 2006 Fierce 15."

"This list, as any such list must be, is subjective and as such can reasonably be debated more or less endlessly. At the end of the process, I was surprised to find that there is only one repeat from the 2005 list, which itself held very few repeats from the year previous. That speaks to the vigor of the VoIP business. It's not that the earlier winners have vanished. It's that they've either grown and gone public or have been supplanted by a neater newer idea or a fiercer company. Heat, however, is a cheap commodity in the blogosphere. We tried to look past the sizzle to find the meat."