Citrus Telecom has expanded its range of VoIP services for its residential and business markets. Citrus deployed DIGITALK Broadband Telephony and Web calling Card in 2005 and are now introducing IP Virtual Office and Service Numbers to the range of services on the DIGITALK Multiservice Platform.

The two new additions will enhance Citrus's offering to its business subscribers who will now be able to offer virtual office features and intelligent inbound routing to customers and resellers in over 60 countries.

Citrus is able to offer SMEs a simple, cost-effective and professional business communications service using DIGITALK IP Virtual Office, that includes multiple calling features and network and services management software, plus full billing, rating and web self-care functionality.

Talkster officially launches its integration with GTalk2VoIP, offering callers worldwide free international, long distance and group conference calls. Talkster’s partnership with GTalk2VoIP extends the company’s ad-supported free calling service from 34 countries to cover the entire globe.

The partnership between Talkster and GTalk2VoIP allows callers from any country in the world to leverage Google Talk to make free calls to or from anywhere else in the world. Now, if the country you are calling to or from is not included in Talkster’s network of more than 30 countries worldwide, you can simply use Google Talk to call the Talkster number provided to make your portion of the call completely free.

Telchemy announces that over 100 equipment manufacturers have successfully integrated Telchemy’s VQmon software into a wide range of products, such as IP phones, VoIP Gateways, Routers, Session Border Controllers, Probes and Analyzers. Over 30 million units of VQmon have been shipped, representing an annual growth rate of over 200%. This number does not include an estimated 100 million additional shipments by a number of large ISPs who license VQmon on a subscription model basis.

Buzz Technologies has released independent Web Traffic Data from Truehits. The Data reflects the rapid uptake of the site amongst users in Asia.

Month        Page Views            Thai Users          Sessions
04/2008      226,733(+41.69%)      32,698(+94.77%)     75,238(+128.26%)

05/2008      2,208,797(+874.18%)   351,965(+976.41%)   1,552,147(+1962.98%)

06/2008      10,765,687(+387.40%)  980,096(+178.46%)   4,277,642(+175.60%)

Average daily users is in excess of 150,000

Dash Carrier Services announces a new version of its 911 management system, DASH911. It is currently available to all 911 customers and is a full replacement for the previous system. The new system give users the best E911 coverage of any 911 provider. Included with the new system is advanced address processing logic that makes it simple to provision 911 addresses.

The improved E911 coverage is accomplished by leveraging the E911 footprints of multiple E911 providers. Along with E911, Dash Carrier Services will continue to provide Advanced 911 to all addresses in the United States and Canada.

JAJAH announces its platform has been selected by Gizmo5, a widely used free mobile and computer-based VoIP service. The partnership adds millions of users to the JAJAH platform, with JAJAH handling all call termination for Gizmo5 as well as additional tailored services including customer care and billing.

Softphones, or software-based-phones, enable people to make IP-telephone calls directly from Internet-connected computers or mobile devices, and are increasingly being seen as an alternative to traditional landline phones for telecommuters and mobile users. The softphone market is poised for significant growth as competition heats up and global unified communications take hold. A recent Frost & Sullivan report finds that the percentage of the total IP-telephone market that softphones represent will increase from 5 percent to 20 percent by 2014. Softphone sales rose to 416,000 units, worth $18.9 million in 2007, a 30 percent increase in dollar terms over the previous year.

SotaComm said it has begun providing completely wireless communications and networking solutions to small and midsize businesses that are a radical improvement over anything previously available to these firms. SotaComm has released a completely wireless IP PBX and SIP business phone system and has added DECT wireless functionality to it's current PBX lineup so it organizations can have both wireless and wired SIP phones.

The Solution:
SotaComm's objective was to create a digital wireless solution that would integrate with our complete line of IP-PBXs. We explored WiFi compatable SIP phones first, using traditional WiFi frequencies. Next we explored DECT technology which can be deployed as a multi-cell solution for handover between access points. It differs from Wi-Fi in that DECT technology can be deployed as a multi-cell solution for handover between access points. DECT is also designed specifically for voice, where Wi-Fi is designed primarily for data. Voice over Wi-Fi requires software applications for inter-cell handover and offers minimal power management which can result in lower talk and standby times. DECT, however, has native support for inter-cell handover and power management; offers a longer range than a typical Wi-Fi access point; and uses the 1.9 GHz frequency, cutting down on the interference experienced with voice over Wi-Fi, which uses the crowded 2.4 GHz frequency.

Rebtel is consistently the low-price leader among 15 companies compared side by side in a new report just released by Technology Appraisals Limited, an independent market research and publishing company based in London.

On the world's most heavily trafficked calling corridors Rebtel's per minute rates beat Jajah, EQO, mig33, Mobivox, and Truphone, to name just few of the better known companies the study compared. Rebtel's standard rates quoted in the study, entitled Low Cost & Mobile VoIP, also beat market leaders not included, such as Skype, Reliance and Stana Card.

VoIPshield Laboratories made its second announcement of security vulnerabilities in Voice over IP systems marketed by Avaya, Cisco and Nortel. This brings the total number of vulnerability groups reported to VoIP vendors in 2008 to over fifty, representing over 175 unique vulnerabilities. The vulnerability groups will be disclosed in limited detail on VoIPshield's website at, available at noon EDT today. Vulnerabilities are categorized into four exploit types based on their most likely malicious intent: remote code execution; unauthorized access; denial of service; and information harvesting.

Vonage hails the United States House of Representatives' passage of the New and Emerging Technologies 911 Improvement Act of 2008. This new act grants long awaited rights and protection to VoIP service providers to interconnect to the traditional 911 network operated by incumbent telephone providers.

"Vonage is grateful for the many efforts in Congress to make this legislation a priority. It helps consumers, Public Safety and Vonage support the best possible emergency solution," said Jeffrey Citron, Chairman, Chief Strategist, and Interim CEO of Vonage. "With over 98% of our subscriber's lines with access to E911, Congress has provided additional tools, leadership and encouragement to get all parties to work together."