VoSKY announces a major global expansion of its VoSKY Exchange VoIP application gateway business through an agreement with Digital China. VoSKY Exchange is the first Skype solution for business to be sold through the Digital China network, reflecting growing market interest in the gateway's ability to add enhanced VoIP-based business applications and Skype trunks to any traditional or IP-based office phone system.

Effective immediately, Digital China's 6,000 VARs have access to the full VoSKY Exchange product line, including seven four-port and eight-port editions that seamlessly connect to any PBX with no modifications to existing PBX equipment, desk phones or user PCs. This will enable resellers to offer low-cost, easily deployable, value-added VoIP solutions to the 8.3 million small and medium businesses in China.

TRUE Corporation has selected NICE SmartCenter for its VoIP contact centers. NICE Perform and the NICE workforce management solutions will replace competing systems being used today. TRUE selected NICE SmartCenter to leverage the synergies of the NICE solutions, to improve customer service, dispute resolution capabilities, and operational efficiency.

TRUE Corporation is Thailand’s leading and only fully-integrated provider of telecommunications services, with more than 10,000 employees, and operates five core businesses, including: mobile, business, online business, pay-TV, digital commerce, and digital content. TRUE’s contact centers handle over 8 million annual customer calls covering topics such as account information inquiries, telephony needs, and technical support requests.

The Smooth Global (China) Holdings has signed an agreement with Beijing Shunyi Investment Promotion Bureau for the launching of ''VoIP Networkwork Construction'' service in the Shunyi District of Beijing, which offers the construction of VoIP Network for brand named companies in the district of Shunyi in Beijing, targeting for $1.2 million gross margin annually.

According to the general plan of Beijing Municipality, Shunyi is located in the middle segment of the East Development Band with the concept of ''2 axles - 2 bands - multi-centers". With this plan, Shunyi District will be awarded with four functions: modern manufacturing, a logistics hub, an international exchange and holiday relaxation. Shunyi District has attracted over 300 large and medium foreign enterprises from over 18 countries including some famous brands such as Ericsson, SONY, JVC, AIRBUS, Panasonic and Citizen. More than 20 factories and R&D companies, which are listed in the World's Top 500 Companies, established their business in Shunyi District based on its predominant investing environment, excellent office settings and well-served daily assistance.

A partnership bringing free video sharing and VoIP services to Taiwan was announced Friday by Globe7 and ChinaTimes.com.

The agreement will allow ChinaTimes.com to provide users with Globe7’s free Internet calling to 25 countries as well as free sharing and downloading of pictures, videos and music. One of Taiwan’s largest domestically owned Websites, ChinaTimes.com is the fourth largest recipient of online advertising in Taiwan.

VoIP-PAL.com is pleased to announce that the Company will be expanding its market to 50 million users by launching its first foreign e-commerce Web site to South Korea. The Web site will enable users in South Korea to purchase the Company's VoIP products online, which will build VoIP-PAL.com's customer base substantially.

VoIP allows voice and data transmissions to be sent across a wide variety of Internet networks, allowing users to talk to each other using PC phones over the Internet. Consumers and businesses will be able to utilize VoIP at home or at the office for all of their communications needs, providing them with an alternative to expensive long distance telephone costs, saving them up to 70 percent.

Buzz Technologies is pleased to announce a series of developments in the company’s mobile unit. One of them is a WAP based VoIP that allows mobile phone users to make low cost calls directly from their mobile phone. “This service is free to all members of Buzz’s Social Networking Sites, BuzZMe In and the Chinese Xirxi. Services such as VoIP, video, music, radio, news and instant messaging coupled with mobile devices such as a WiFi enabled iPod, and the ubiquity of broadband will result in 100 million consumer mobile VoIP users in 2011,” says Sutida Suwunnavid, Chairwoman of Buzz Technologies. “WiFi enabled mobile entertainment devices will make up 36% of all mobile VoIP devices sold in 2011.”

Buzz needs no special equipment or software, just a WAP enabled phone. Sutida also predicts that by 2011 Skype will have 25% of the world's VoIP users and $1.2 billion in voice service revenues. Buzz is aiming at Market penetration of 12.5% and $600m in revenue by 2011.

SK Telink announces at the BroadSoft Connections 2007 Executive Users Conference that it will work with five major cable providers in South Korea to bring VoIP services to residential consumers, small businesses and home offices using BroadSoft's BroadWorks application platform.

SK Telink's new offering integrates VoIP with customers' set-top television cable boxes. The BroadWorks-based services work through customers' cable boxes to display caller ID, a phone directory and other phone services on the TV, while customers watch television programs. These calling features can be controlled with the TV remote control. Residential customers can get premium services such as call pick-up, call transfer and shared-call appearance to use among family members.

Reportlinker.com announces that a new report related to the Chinese telecommunication industry is now available to its catalogue. The VoIP business volume in China telecom operation market increased dramatically. Presently, the call duration of VoIP in China is the same to that of PSTN basically, but the growth rate of VoIP business is higher compared to PSTN. Up to Sep 2006, the IP call duration of telecom operators was 109.931 billion minutes, up 11.8% y-o-y, and accounting for 43.16% in the long-distance call duration. It is forecasted that the share of VoIP in the long-distance call market will be equal to or even exceed the total long-distance call of PSTN and mobile in the following two or three years gradually.

New World Telecommunications celebrates the worldwide launch of talk2hk, a new-generation VoIP service.

With an authentic Hong Kong fixed line number talk2hk enables customers to enjoy unlimited calls with their friends, families and business associates in Hong Kong at a flat, low monthly charge of US$12. Apart from unlimited calls to and from Hong Kong, customers can also interact with business partners and friends all over the world at very competitive IDD rates. For instance, calls to China and other countries only cost as little as US $0.02.

Mainland China is expected to increase output of VoIP phones by 34 percent in 2007 to more than 29 million units, spurred by growing domestic and global demand, according to Global Sources' China Sourcing Report: VoIP Phones.

"China's VoIP phone industry is poised for continuous growth, with both production and exports forecast to grow," said publisher of the report, Mark A. Saunderson. "Manufacturers are developing product lines and raising output capacity."

The report indicates mainland China's exports of VoIP phones are expected to reach 21 million units in 2007 -- up 26 percent from 2006.