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Vonage VoIP Videophone - See Who's Calling, Not Just Hear Them |
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Videophone: See Who's Calling, Not Just Hear Him
January 17, 2005
By Zatni Arbi
We have been talking about videophones for a very long time. We want the ability to see the face of the person we are talking to through the telephone.
However, suppose someone asks us whether we really need videophones, or whether videophones will really improve our productivity, our answer is most likely to be "no, not really". For most of us, videophones are something that would be nice to have, and that is it.
Especially at home, where we rarely look presentable, we may rarely turn on the video camera. Who would be dressed nicely or perfectly made-up at any time during the day just to look OK on the videophone in case someone calls? Only those sinetron (TV soap opera) stars would.
In the past, the promises to add video to the telephone were never truly delivered. Data compression was not as good as it is now, although even now it is not as good as it should be. That is why videophones were not commonplace.
However, times are changing.
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Posted by vonage on Monday, January 17 @ 12:00:00 CST
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Vonage VoIP Offers Area Code Selection |
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VoIP Offers Choice Of Area Codes
January 15, 2005
By Jim Rossman
I want to get VoIP service, but I'd like to get a phone number with a different area code so my relatives, who all live across the country, could call me without paying for long-distance. Will the VoIP companies check or verify where I live? Do they care?
Y.C., Dallas
VoIP stands for voice over Internet protocol, which means using your Internet connection to make telephone calls.
Vonage is the largest VoIP provider, with more than 400,000 numbers. When you sign up for its service, you can get a number with any area code you wish.
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Posted by vonage on Monday, January 17 @ 11:26:34 CST
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Vonage VoIP Is Making The Traditional Phone Call History |
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Talking In Style With VoIP
January 14, 2005
By Kelvin Taylor
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell conducted the first successful experiment with the telephone by saying those famous words, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you!" Fast-forward 129 years, and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) is making that type of traditional phone call one for the history books. Now traditional telecom companies, cable companies, and equipment makers are racing to offer VoIP services to customers.
What is VoIP, you ask? With traditional long-distance service, you pick up the phone, dial the number, and the call is charged on a per-minute basis by your long-distance phone company. With VoIP, the same call is routed over the Internet via a VoIP provider -- similar to an ISP -- thus circumventing your long-distance phone company entirely. The major advantage of VoIP and Internet telephony is that it avoids the tolls charged by ordinary telephone service. So long, long-distance bills.
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Posted by vonage on Monday, January 17 @ 00:00:00 CST
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FCC Questions States' Appeals To Vonage VoIP Ruling |
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Powell Questions States' VoIP Appeals
January 13, 2005
By Roy Mark
WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael Powell said today that states appealing the FCC's November decision ruling Voice over IP an interstate service "pretty much makes zero sense to me."
Minnesota, California, Ohio and New York have all announced they are heading to court to challenge the FCC ruling, which preempts state and local regulation of Internet telephony services. The ruling grew out of N.J.-based Vonage's request to be declared an interstate service in order to avoid state efforts to tax and treat Internet telephony as a traditional telephone service.
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Posted by vonage on Sunday, January 16 @ 00:00:00 CST
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Vonage Targets UK BT's Customers |
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Vonage Targets BT's Customers With UK Marketing Campaign
January 13, 2005
By Staff
Vonage, the leading US Internet telephony firm, is aiming to win a share of BT's huge customer base with the launch of a multi-million-pound UK marketing drive within the next two weeks.
The company is aiming to more than double its subscriber base by the end of 2005, helped by its UK service which soft-launched last week. CEO Jeffrey Citron said it was aiming for 1m users worldwide by the end of the year, up from 400,000 now.
Citron said Vonage would be competing against BT rather than other Internet telephony firms. "Our only rival is the incumbent operator - it's the one with the customers," he said.
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Posted by vonage on Saturday, January 15 @ 00:00:00 CST
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Vonage Slips Quietly Into The UK VoIP Market |
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US Provider Slips Quietly Into The UK VoIP Sector
January 13, 2005
By Julian Watson
On 6 January, US service provider Vonage officially started offering voice-over-IP (VoIP) in the UK. But in contrast to the hype surrounding the technology and the company, this was an unassuming launch.
At present, residents and small businesses can only sign up to the service - prices for which start at £9.99 a month - through the Vonage Web site. They get unlimited calling to fixed-line phones in the UK and Ireland, and free benefits including Voicemail Plus, three-way calling and calls to mobiles from 5p a minute.
So why the modest introduction? Hype isn't Vonage's style. In its main two markets, the US and Canada, it waited several months after launch before embarking on a serious marketing effort. It now has more than 400,000 subscribers, having doubled its customer base in the past six months. Customers and critics of VoIP can exchange their views at vonage-forum.com. The emphasis is on engagement with users, not hype.
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Posted by vonage on Friday, January 14 @ 18:00:00 CST
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Vonage VoIP Phone To Speed Voice Over Wi-Fi To Market |
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New Vonage VoIP Phone To Speed Voice-Over Wi-Fi To Consumer Market, Says ABI Research
January 13, 2005
By Robert Hoskins
1/13/05 - On January 4, Vonage and UTStarcom, Inc. announced a partnership to introduce a portable Wi-Fi handset, the F-1000, configured with Vonage's Voice over IP (VoIP) phone service. This product, which will offer mobility across 802.11b networks, will be available to Vonage subscribers in the U.S. during the spring/summer 2005. Meanwhile, the new service is being trialed internally.
While this is not the first foray into providing cellular phone services over Wi-Fi -- Net2Phone has been conducting a trial in Newark, New Jersey -- Vonage's extensive reach, via hotspot aggregator Boingo Wireless's 12,000+ locations in 48 U.S. states and 32 countries, means that F-1000 purchasers will enjoy a practical alternative to traditional cellular communications.
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Posted by vonage on Friday, January 14 @ 16:54:13 CST
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Vonage Handsets To Change Mobile Telephony |
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Handsets On The Bleedin’ Edge
January 12, 2005
By Staff
Recent mobile handset developments from Vonage and Samsung highlight the changing shape of mobile telephony.
At the recent CES show in Las Vegas, Vonage announced a partnership with UTStarcom, Inc., to introduce a portable Wi-Fi handset, the F-1000, configured with Vonage’s Voice over IP (VoIP) phone service. This product, which will offer mobility across 802.11b networks, will be available nationwide to Vonage subscribers during the spring/summer 2005.
According to Philip Solis, senior analyst, wireless connectivity at ABI Research, many consumers will use the new phone as a cordless phone replacement on their home or business Wi-Fi networks. Some might not want to carry the extra VoIP handset in addition to their standard mobile phone when traveling. But the service could be of value to anyone wishing to make a large number of calls from public hotspots. “This development is significant," says Solis, “because of the size of Vonage’s customer base — 400,000 — compared to other VoIP providers.
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Posted by vonage on Thursday, January 13 @ 00:00:00 CST
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Vonage Voice Over IP Comes To The UK |
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UK - Voice Over IP Comes To Landline Phones In The UK
January 11, 2005
By Staff
Broadband phone services firm Vonage has launched a VoIP service in the UK that can run directly through a users landline phone handset.
The system works by providing a convenient phone adapter/router, which converts analogue signals to digital signals that plugs into a broadband connection. A standard telephone can then be plugged into the adapter so that when a call is made or received the signal is converted to digital and routed through a high-speed DSL or cable modem across the Internet and back through a traditional phone network to the receiver's phone.
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Posted by vonage on Wednesday, January 12 @ 20:00:00 CST
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Vonage Plans For 2005 |
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What's Ahead For Vonage In 2005?
January 10, 2005
By Toni Kistner
Cisco/Linksys touts residential IP telephony as the next big thing. A slew of broadband providers from AT&T to Cablevision jump on board to offer flat-rate phone services with compelling new features. What's it all mean for the upstart that started it all, Vonage Holdings? Network World's Net.Worker Managing Editor Toni Kistner discusses the company's plans for the new year with Vonage Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Citron.
Vonage partnered with Viseon in an exclusive deal to offer broadband videophone service. How will Vonage succeed with a product that's never taken off?
We're working with Viseon to solve the problems that have plagued videophones historically. One big concern has been pricing. Videophones have been terribly expensive, not really approachable below $500. The other problem is quality. There just hasn't been enough bandwidth. But conditions in the home have changed. Higher bandwidth is becoming more readily available, compression technologies more advanced. The quality of the phones is now very good, and finally we think we can bring down the price and make it affordable.
How will you bring down the price?
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Posted by vonage on Wednesday, January 12 @ 19:18:58 CST
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