Hughes Network Systems announces that its European operating entity, Hughes Europe, has completed the roll-out of a high-quality HN System solution for Telefonica Espana to deliver satellite-based VoIP rural telecommunications services. The implementation had to meet the very tight compliance deadlines imposed by the Spanish authorities, which Hughes successfully met.

Ziggo selects an IP-Powered Business solution from Nortel to help them launch advanced business voice services for small and medium businesses. Ziggo has enjoyed considerable success in the consumer telecommunications market in The Netherlands and now Nortel will assist them to expand into the SMB market with a pre-tested, end-to-end solution. The Nortel IP-Powered Business solution is specifically designed to help provide SMBs with all the standard telephony features that a business needs over a secure, reliable, and cost-effective IP-based system. IP-Powered Business can also be used to provide SMBs with advanced VoIP services such as 'click-to-call,' 'find me/follow me' capabilities and audio conferencing.

VocalTec announces that its Essentra VoIP softswitch has received Class-4, Class-5 and Lawful Interception certification from the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Radio and Television; this is part of VocalTec’s ongoing measures to position itself as a significant provider of VoIP solutions across the Ukraine.

Codima announces the launch of its operations in Scotland. The Edinburgh office will offer sales and support services to the company’s growing base of resellers and end users. Appointed VP Sales and Business Development Scotland John Howell heads the operation.

Codima continues its European expansion. Following the recent roll out in the Benelux, German, French and Scandinavian markets the company reinforces its UK organization based in London. Focusing on private and public sectors throughout Scotland, the Scottish branch will offer the company’s software tools to improve Quality of Service while reducing IT costs in VoIP and data networks.

Codima announces that the company has established operations in the Benelux market. With head offices in Brussels, the local multi lingual team will offer services in sales, marketing and technical support to new and existing resellers throughout the Benelux region. The Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg operation is the Company’s fourth European roll out in 2009.

Russian Company selected VocalTec's technology to further develop its VoIP network. Through this collaboration, Russian Company can now seamlessly connect their legacy telephony network with VocalTec's new packet based network. The deployment was achieved in partnership with Sintera, a leading Russian systems integrator.

Codima announces the launch of operations in the French market. A fully operational organization with local staff will offer sales, marketing and support to new and existing resellers throughout France from the company's offices in Paris. With the expansion, Codima strengthens its position in the French market and continues its successful adaptation to new markets implementing local organizations.

VMB has selected VocalTec’s solutions for its VoIP network roll out. Performed in partnership with SATEL, a leading system integrator in Russia, the deployment is focused around the migration of VMB’s infrastructure into an advanced packet-based Class 4 and Class 5 network.

ICC Worldwide has implemented a major upgrade to its VoIP call traffic handling capabilities. The firm now has three European VoIP Point Of Presence sites located in Milan, Amsterdam, and London. At the Milan site, ICC has recently installed its own DIGITALK Intelligent Switch and Data Server. This action dramatically expands the firm's call handling capacity and overall network reliability. The centrally managed system also enables highly effective network utilization, ensuring the preferential use of capacity to route traffic in a way that is most cost effective for international calling destinations. This allows ICC to efficiently pass savings on to customers, thus ensuring the firm is able to provide the best possible value to its VoIP services subscribers.

VoipUser announces the interconnection of British Telecom 0870 range numbers to the VoIP peering iNUM network. British Telecom will make 0870 numbers free to call to subscribers on their Anytime call plan starting on January 16th, 2009.

John Peter, managing Director of BT's Consumer Business, said in a Press Release on Thursday "All of our 14 million Anytime customers have free calls included in their package and now all 14 million have free calls to 0870 at times that fit with their calling plan, which is something not offered by any of our competitors."

TalkSwitch has appointed ICON as its distributor for the United Kingdom. At recommended retail prices starting from GBP499, TalkSwitch comes complete with an extensive feature set that includes built-in voicemail, auto-attendant greetings, call forwarding to mobiles, remote management, and support for both analogue and IP handsets for up to 16 extensions, with modular growth to 64.

Codima is expanding in the German, Austrian and Swiss markets launching local operations. The organization will operate with local staff throughout the region, offering sales, marketing and support services to new and existing reselling partners. Codima continues its strategy to operate locally in all markets with local staff contributing to the company’s successful market adaptation.

Patton has inaugurated a regional sales office in Milan, Italy. As Patton's center of operations and business development for Southern Europe, the Milan office supplies Patton's full catalog of over 1,000 data, voice, VoIP, and triple-play networking products to carriers, enterprises, VARs, and integrators throughout the region.

The announcement follows recent carrier Ethernet rollouts from KPN, Tiscali, and AT&T.

CounterPath's VoIP and Video over IP telephony technology has been integrated into the product offering of European service provider Belgacom and is now available to Belgacom subscribers as Videotalk.

Belgacom is the leading telecommunications provider in Belgium. Launched November 1st, its Videotalk solution allows users to make voice and video calls directly from their computer using a webcam, a Belgacom Internet line and the company's I-Talk service. The solution was built using CounterPath's softphone technology, which enables VoIP voice and video calling, IM and presence management in an easy to use and versatile desktop communications application.

Comstar has implemented a VoIP network solution from Nortel to help accommodate the need for reliable, affordable long-distance VoIP across the entire Russian Federation. Comstar obtained its long-distance access area codes for Russia in July 2008 and has begun commercial operations of long-distance voice services.

Russia is the largest country in the world spanning more than an eighth of the Earth's land area. In a country of this size, affordable communications - especially long-distance communications - is important to stay connected with friends and family. With the new Carrier VoIP network from Nortel, Comstar can provide affordable, long-distance VoIP across all regions of the Russian Federation including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-na-Donu, Vladivostok and other regional centres.