In the News: Carrier IP Telephony Market Down 25 percent, XCast Labs Offers BlackBerry Video Mail
Carrier IP Telephony Market Down 25 Percent
A report by the Dell'Oro Group research firm says that the market for carrier IP telephony equipment in the first quarter of 2009 was down 25 percent compared to the previous year. Although the global recession was one cause of the decrease, Dell'Oro also found that the decline in revenues and subscribers for fixed-line voice services in general was a significant factor, as more and more consumers chose to use wireless services for all their voice communications. Carriers with significant operations outside North America fared better than those that relied mainly on that market.
XCast Labs Offers IP Video Mail for BlackBerry
XCast Labs has announced it is offering video voice mail service for BlackBerry users. The service allows enterprise users of BlackBerry Curve, Pearl or Storm devices to receive video messages from video phones or video softphones, and to receive traditional voice mail messages via MP3 attachments or RSS feeds. The services run on XCast's DV&V (Digital Voice and Video) platform, a hosted solution that provides Class 5 switching, video telephony and conferencing, IP PBX services, SIP trunking and other functions.
SpinVox Expands Latin American Business with Telefónica
Voice-to-text messaging service SpinVox has reached a deal to deploy its software across Telfónica's Latin American network. SpinVox can convert voice-mail messages to text in six languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The agreement will see SpinVox's service deployed in 12 additional countries in the region, following an initial launch with Telefónica in Chile in October 2008. The new markets are Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Media5-Fone SIP Softphone Now Available for iPhone
The SIP-based softphone for iPhone that Media5 Corporation announced earlier this month is now available through the Apple App Store, the company said. The softphone, a full SIP client, allows users to turn their iPhones into extensions of their IP PBXes, and thus access all the features of their office phone systems from their mobile devices. Media5 is working on an enterprise version of the software that will include strong voice encryption.
Before it became a necessity during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, many companies had already begun realizing the benefits inherent in embracing remote work. These benefits are substantial and signal that (even when the pandemic is but a memory) remote work will continue to flourish and become a mainstay in the redefined workplace - particularly when it comes to VoIP. This guide will demonstrate how the workforce is changing and leaning toward remote work as a permanent business choice, explain the critical role VoIP will continue to play in supporting remote work, and highlight some of the new trends and innovations coming in 2021 for VoIP. more
