DIGITALK announces SBC VoIP Peering, a high capacity and low footprint network solution for international wholesale services with a complete integrated operations support capability. Based on DIGITALK’s carrier-grade Session Border Controller for VoIP routing, DIGITALK SBC VoIP Peering incorporates full carrier rates management, automated routing, reporting and troubleshooting plus the unique benefit of an integrated prepaid engine.

DIGITALK has taken its broad experience of delivering solutions worldwide to the international long distance market over the last 10 years to distil in a single application the benefits of a consolidated routing, rating and management solution. Justin Norris, CEO of DIGITALK said “Based on our considerable market experience, we have developed a solution that directly addresses the issues carriers face with out-dated and inflexible solutions, and provides a very powerful and cost-effective platform on which to seize critical growth opportunities, especially in these leaner times.”

360networks announces that VoicePulse has steadily expanded its relationship with the company since becoming a customer in 2008, recently adding Toll Free Origination. With this addition, VoicePulse currently utilizes all of 360networks' Wholesale VoIP services to include IP Origination and IP Termination.

VoicePulse delivers SIP trunking, worldwide termination, origination, and high-quality phone service to residential and business customers. The company offers flexible and innovative VoIP features along with a reputation for quality, reliability and excellent customer support. VoicePulse customers enjoy enterprise-like functions at no additional charge.

Phone.com announces that fully automated voicemail message transcriptions are now available. In addition to listening to their voicemails, every Phone.com customer can now also view the transcribed text of their voicemail messages on their phone and in their email inboxes.

Messages are transcribed immediately upon receipt and are forwarded to the customer’s email as well as to their phones as an SMS text message. Unlike other services that provide human-assisted transcriptions, Phone.com’s transcriptions are 100% automated. Based on software developed by Yap, Inc., the company’s automated Text Voicemail provides the highest level of speech recognition technology, enabling faster and more accurate transcriptions.

Mitel has worked closely with HIPCOM to certify its services for interoperability with Mitel’s IP communication systems and applications. HIPCOM’s services have been certified in Mitel’s SIP Centre of Excellence, which also celebrates its 5th anniversary this year.

In its five-year history, Mitel’s SIP Centre of Excellence has been utilised for certifying 47 providers globally for interoperability with Mitel systems. Based in Ottawa, Canada, the centre enables Mitel to manage its own SIP certification and work together with service providers to efficiently and reliably achieve certification. At Mitel’s SIP Centre of Excellence, the certification process can be completed in as little as two weeks, which is a significant time reduction on alternative methods.

Rebtel announces part two of a two-part survey conducted on their behalf by Harris Interactive online in September, which measured consumer sentiment on International calling services and providers.

According to the study, 1 in 4 U.S adults make international calls, and of those who spend money to make such calls, the average spend is approximately $34 every month. With an estimated 235 million U.S. adults, this works out to roughly 58.8 million Americans shelling out nearly $1.98 billion on international calls outside of the U.S. monthly and $23.8 billion annually.

Voip-Pal.Com has posted a new upgrade of their PointsPhone Mobile App for the BlackBerry which now is compatible for the OS6 version of the new BlackBerry Torch and all previous versions of the BlackBerry as well. The PointsPhone Mobile App for the BlackBerry is available on www.PointsPhone.com and users can now download for free the PointsPhone Mobile App for BlackBerry. A user account must be registered.

The PointsPhone Guard will be available for delivery as a stand-alone App on our retail website. It will also be available as an Add-On for all new and existing clients. In addition, a new PointsPhone Platinum package will be available that will provide a complete telecommunications solution for Smart Phone users.

Skype 5.0 is now available for Mac in beta, introducing a revamped look and feel that simplifies navigation and provides a more Mac-like experience. For example, the Skype app has been brought together in one window for ease-of-use, and the Mac address book has been integrated, making it possible for you to call, IM and SMS your contacts when they are online or offline.

The new Skype for Mac also offers our popular new feature - group video calling - which allows you to make video calls with more than two people at a time as long as all participants are on the new Mac beta or Skype for Windows 5.0. Group video calling brings people together like never before, allowing you to do more things together with your friends, family and colleagues whenever you are apart.

NTT Communications announces on November 4 that it will become Japan's first telecom carrier to offer multinational customers a VoIP service for internal dialing between global offices, including Japan, beginning December 1. Plans to launch other new IP communications services also were announced.

NTT Com's new service will enable customers to establish high-quality global-scale internal dialing networks on a quick, low-cost basis using IP technologies. Making calls will be as simple as dialing the base office's extension and then the receiver's extension.

Toshiba and Saddleback Communications announce the certification of interoperability of Saddleback's Wholesale Hosted SIP Trunking Services with Toshiba's family of Strata CIX IP business communication systems. Saddleback SIP Trunking Services are now available from select Authorized Toshiba Dealers in Arizona.

Saddleback provides wholesale SIP Trunking services via its network of strategic resellers throughout the state of Arizona. Saddleback resellers provide Hosted SIP trunks from an extremely redundant and diverse network to businesses in Arizona and throughout the United States.

M5 Networks announces its acquisition of Geckotech, the Chicago-based leader in Cisco-powered Hosted VoIP. The companies have joined forces to better service the exploding demand for business-grade hosted communications.

M5 Networks will take over all of Geckotech's staff, customers, and datacenters. Both companies are recognized innovators in the VoIP industry and have remained competitive with other telecom alternatives through exceptional management of complex technology. M5 Networks and Geckotech appeared on the 2009 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States.

According to new data from ABI Research, enterprises are ramping up their investments in VoIP technologies, both on customer premises equipment and hosted VoIP. VoIP technologies are part of enterprise communications products and services that include fixed mobile convergence, contact center, IP/TDM PBX, messaging, and conferencing and collaboration. The integrated unified communications suites market, which was adversely affected by the economy, is also poised to see some consistent growth to reach revenues of $4.8 billion by 2015.

IP PBX vendors are expected to ship just over 35 million IP lines (including native IP and hybrid lines) worldwide during 2010. IP telephony shipments will continue to see robust growth throughout the forecast period as enterprise communications systems converge on the IP platform.

For the rest of the year, you can send free SMS text messages to Asia if you have the Vopium application installed on your mobile phone. The application is easy to install, and in addition to the free SMS service, Vopium also offers low-cost international calls of a quality far exceeding what you may know from Skype.

With Vopium on your mobile phone, you can send free SMS text messages for the remainder of the year to your friends, family and other people in most Asian countries, such as India, Japan and Thailand, enabling you to send text messages to more than 2.5 billion people in Asia.

Versature has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the phone service business of Octopus IP Communications Ltd. Versature's subscriber base will immediately increase by 20% with the addition of these customers.

Adding the Octopus IP client base will enable Versature to accelerate it's already impressive growth, just recently announcing 100% year-over-year subscriber growth for it's Hosted PBX Business services. Former Octopus IP customers will now have access to some exciting new features such as call queues, automated call distribution, smartphone (iPhone, Android) integration and agent login/logout, which were not available to them in the past. Versature's customer base consists of over 300 businesses from across the country.