As more businesses move from conventional voice services to VoIP-based offerings, the need for testing tools to ensure the reliable operation of session border controllers is growing among both enterprises and providers of VoIP services, according to the latest report published by Light Reading's VoIP Services Insider.

Phone Power has announced the acquisition of all residential Broadvox Direct VoIP customers. The transfer will occur in stages, starting on 9/15/09 and completing in early October. All services and rates will continue uninterrupted. This move has allowed Phone Power to expand its nationwide coverage into even more Tier 2 markets and Canada.

Rack-Soft announces the general availability of 4PSA VoipNow 2.0.3, the new version of the company's Unified Communications solution that delivers rich multimedia communication services like voice, video, presence, instant messaging and faxing. Service providers use 4PSA VoipNow to deliver Unified Communications to SMB market.

Broadvox's GO! SIP Trunking product line has received a “Best of Show Award” in the Service Provider Solution category at Technology Marketing Corporation ITEXPO West 2009 in Los Angeles.

Delivering 70% savings on telecom costs, Broadvox VoIP solutions can be customized for the needs of any business, from SMBs to enterprises, and is certified interoperable with more OEMs than any other ITSP. Broadvox GO! SIP Trunks deliver clear voice quality, earning the confidence thousands of businesses nationwide. With competitive pricing and an award-winning VAR Partner Program that offers potential sales incentives of up to 25%, Broadvox consistently delivers IP communications solutions that benefit both end users and resellers. Business continuity, geographic load balancing and scalability of Broadvox GO! SIP Trunking allows businesses to migrate to IP communications in with confidence in stages or all at once, aided by a premier customer service department.

SoliCall’s PBXMate is now available for H.323 VoIP Networks. PBXMate, which also continuously monitor the quality of the calls, was initially used for VoIP networks using SIP signaling only. Following increased market demand, SoliCall has added integration procedures to the H.323 signaling. The recent release by the company will allow users to improve voice quality (remove noise & echo) and monitor quality in any VoIP network that works with either SIP signaling or H.323 signaling.

Voiceserve announces that its Voipswitch software has been accepted as a member of the Symbian Foundation, enabling Voipswitch to further develop and deploy innovative mobile solutions that enhance and simplify devices based on the Symbian operating system. The Symbian Foundation, together with its ecosystem, is creating the most proven, open and complete mobile software platform.

snom has teamed with Phybridge, this technology partnership gives businesses the ability to take advantage of the productivity enhancing features of IP telephony with minimal capital investment. Together, the two companies have conducted rigorous testing and evaluation that demonstrates full interoperability between snom’s suite of IP business phones and the Phybridge UniPhyer, an IP PBX and IP end-point enabler. The plug-and-play nature of UniPhyer allows a business to deploy a state of the art VoIP system while still retaining their legacy analog phone infrastructure - driving down the cost and risk for businesses to migrate to an end-to-end IP-based solution.

More businesses can now maximize the potential of their IP-enabled communications, thanks to Verizon Business. The company's award-winning Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks feature is now available in Europe, enabling customers to enhance the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IP networks by allowing capacity to be allocated on demand to support business needs across customers' VoIP locations.

A recent report published by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, indicates that the carrier IP telephony market rose 7 percent sequentially in the second quarter of 2009, to $737 million, as service providers replenished equipment and license inventories and purchased infrastructure to serve near-term customer needs.

Challenger Mobile announces the launch of its ground-breaking platform for Google's Android mobile operating system. Challenger Mobile will allow mobile operators, wireless ISPs and related service providers to now deliver mVoIP services to customers switching to Android-based mobile phones, which utilize the innovative operating system developed by one of the tech world's biggest companies -- Google.

Australian firm Matrix announces the launch of its proprietary V Phone: wireless and mobile VoIP software for the iPhone platform, which has the immense potential to be a forerunner in the supply of software to VoIP Service Providers.

The V Phone software client is targeted at IP Telephony companies that are or intend to provide voice and telephony services to end-users. For VoIP Service Providers that are providing land based voice services, the V Phone solution is the ideal opportunity for providers to further boost their revenue stream by offering wireless or mobile VOIP calls. Matrix will provide a white label or branded version of the V Phone that is customised to a provider’s specifications. This versatile application can be locked down to a provider's settings, branded with their logo and integrated with the provider's backend system or toolbox.

Skype and ShoreTel announces interoperability between ShoreTel's UC system and the beta version of Skype for SIP. ShoreTel is the world's first UC vendor to achieve interoperability with Skype for SIP. The nearly 11,000 ShoreTel enterprise customers can now register to try Skype for SIP in beta, giving them the opportunity to save money, save time and stay ahead by integrating Skype into their communications portfolios.

AT&T has admitted to the Federal Communications Commission that it struck a deal to prevent mobile VoIP calling on its 3G network. In fact, no cellular carrier in the United States allows VoIP calling across their mobile network. VoIP technology saves consumers money by routing calls over the Internet instead of traditional networks. AT&T responded to the FCC inquiry, arguing that the deal was needed to assure that revenues from its current voice plans would not be reduced by enabling mobile VoIP calling.

Wavion released a new software version with enhanced support for VoIP applications for residential and business connectivity. Wavion base stations can now support a multitude of concurrent high quality voice calls in parallel to high capacity data flows. This capability is achieved by using a new mechanism that optimizes the air utilization and by leveraging Wavion’s unique and powerful beamforming technology that provides robust and high quality links.

Internet America announces it has selected Austin-based StarView to provide VoIP and Hosted VoIP PBX services to its embedded customer base throughout Texas and to new residential and business customers nationwide. StarView uses SIP technology - session initiation protocol - to deliver VoIP services, enabling businesses to significantly reduce communications costs and improve efficiency without investing in a new phone system or disrupting business.