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Manulife Settles On VoIP Through Bell Deal |
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Manulife Settles On VoIP Through Bell Deal
December 10, 2004
By Shane Schick
12/10/2004 5:00:00 PM - The financial services firm signs a deal worth $140 million to move off of PBX. The CIO explains what will be more important than just saving money on phones.
Manulife Financial on Friday joined the ranks of large enterprises who are hoping to lower their costs by moving to voice over IP through a seven year, $140-million deal with Bell
Canada's outsourcing division.
BCE Connexim, formerly a joint venture with Hydro-Quebec but now a wholly-owned Bell services subsidiary, will deploy Cisco IP phones and related network equipment to Manulife's operations both in Canada and the United States, where it operates under the name John Hancock. Four branch offices have been set up so far, and the head office in Toronto has been piloting voice-over-IP (VoIP) for the better part of a year.
John Mather, Manulife Financial's CIO, said the decision to move from its traditional private branch exchange (PBX) network was driven primarily by the firm's belief that tariff costs will be dramatically reduced in the next three to five years. This deal will involve non-tariff services, but the idea is that inter-office long distance and local access expenditures will fall as a variety of IP phone carriers enter the market. This year, for example, has seen the debut of Primus Canada, Vonage Canada and several others.
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Posted by vonage on Monday, December 13 @ 22:23:35 UTC
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Q&A With Peter Kay |
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Q&A With Peter Kay
December 10, 2004
By Peter Kay
A subscriber from Honolulu asks, "I'm seeing all kinds of articles about using the Internet to make telephone calls at really low rates. Is this for real? How is the voice quality?"
Welcome to the "Next Big Thing," the world of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP). Yes, it's for real. You can talk around the world for free and the voice quality is as good as or many times better than today's phone quality.
How it works. It works a lot like today's telephone, except instead of transmitting your voice over telephone wire, VOIP transmits your voice over the Internet. Depending on the installation, VOIP can work with standard telephones or exclusively over a computer.
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Posted by vonage on Monday, December 13 @ 22:19:19 UTC
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Vonage Adds Video To VOIP Service |
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Vonage Adds Video To VOIP Service
December 9, 2004
By Ryan Naraine
Buoyed by a recent FCC (Federal Communications Commission) ruling that its services are exempt from state and local regulation and tariffs, VOIP upstart Vonage plans to enter the video telephony market.
In a partnership with broadband videophone maker Viseon, Edison, N.J.-based Vonage Holdings Corp. plans to add video calling services to its SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)-based VOIP (voice over IP) service early next year.
For Vonage, which already bundles its service with adapter-equipped routers from Linksys and Netgear Inc., the expansion into videophone services could open up new market opportunities nationwide.
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Posted by vonage on Monday, December 13 @ 22:10:09 UTC
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Vonage Partners With Videophone Maker |
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Vonage Partners With Videophone Maker
December 9, 2004
By Staff
Internet-telephony service company Vonage Holdings Corp. has entered a development partnership with videophone maker Viseon Inc., the companies said Thursday.
The deal is expected to simplify the use of Viseon equipment on Vonage's voice over Internet protocol service, officials said in a joint statement. Viseon's videophones, which are sold at more than 7,000 offline and online stores, would eventually be available through Vonage's web site.
Besides consumers, the Vonage-Viseon partnership plans to target small businesses with videoconferencing services.
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Posted by vonage on Monday, December 13 @ 22:06:38 UTC
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Vonage And Viseon Team Up On Videophone Service |
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Vonage And Viseon Team Up On Videophone Service
December 10, 2004
By Brian Osbourne
Viseon was the first company to produce a consumer broadband videophone, the VisiFone, which is currently used by companies, governments, and educational institutions in the U.S. The next generation of the VisiFone, the VisiFone II, has been designed to work with VoIP services, and is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2005.
The new VisiFone II will be offered as a part of a partnership with Vonage, which will offer the new videophone on its website and at over 7,000 retail locations and online retailers nationwide. Viseon and Vonage will be marketing the next generation videophone to consumers and small businesses.
The benefit of this partnership is summed up by Vonage's chairman and CEO, Jeffrey A. Citron:
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Posted by vonage on Sunday, December 12 @ 00:00:00 UTC
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New Technologies |
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New Technologies
December 10, 2004
By Staff
Vonage said it would develop a videophone service in partnership with broadband video equipment maker Viseon starting early next year. It said the phones and service, aimed at consumers and small businesses, would be sold through Vonage's website and at over 7,000 stores nationwide. "With Vonage's back-end SIP technology, offering video phones is a logical next step," a Vonage spokesman said. He said the company's network was "designed to support advanced features like the video phone."
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Posted by vonage on Saturday, December 11 @ 00:00:00 UTC
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Vonage To Develop Videophone With Viseon |
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Vonage To Develop Videophone With Viseon
December 10, 2004
By Staff
Vonage plans to integrate its service with Viseon's next generation broadband video telephone. The two companies announced a partnership to target both consumers and small businesses, enabling them to make videophone calls and to visually communicate with anyone, anywhere in the world.
"Vonage is pleased to partner with Viseon to develop this first-of-a-kind videophone service. Our ability to offer both consumers and small businesses the opportunity to make video calls is another enhancement to the way people make phone calls," stated Jeffrey A. Citron, chairman and CEO of Vonage.
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Posted by vonage on Friday, December 10 @ 23:36:52 UTC
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Vonage Makes Video Calling Plans |
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Vonage Makes Video Calling Plans
December 9, 2004
By Arik Hesseldahl
NEW YORK - Vonage, one of the many companies behind the ever-more popular voice-over-Internet Protocol technology for making phone calls over the Web, disclosed today a partnership with a maker of video phones.
Under the deal with Viseon (otc: VSNI - news - people ), an Irving, Tex.-based manufacturer of video phones for VoIP, the two are developing a device that will be central to a new Vonage video calling service aimed at consumers and small businesses. The device will be unique, says Viseon Chief Executive John Harris, in that it won't require customers to use a personal computer to configure the calling preferences of their Vonage account.
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Posted by vonage on Friday, December 10 @ 00:00:00 UTC
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Vonage Holdings Corp. & Viseon Have Joined Forces To Develop Videophone |
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Vonage Holdings Corp. And Viseon Inc. Have Joined Forces To Develop Videophone Service With New Features.
December 9, 2004
By Staff
EDISON, N.J. (AP) - Vonage Holdings Corp. and Viseon Inc. have joined forces to develop videophone service with new features.
Vonage, of Edison, which provides broadband telephone service, and Viseon, of Dallas, which produces video telephones, said Thursday they will aim the product at consumers and small businesses.
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Posted by vonage on Thursday, December 09 @ 23:21:56 UTC
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Internet Calling Services Put Video Phone In Picture |
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Internet Calling Services Put Video Phone In Picture; VoIP Leader Gets The Jump; Broadband Phone Service Provider Vonage Says Time Ripe For Long-Awaited Era
December 9, 2004
By Reinhardt Krause
Vonage says people want to see whom they're talking to, not just make cheap voice calls.
The company, which sells low-cost, Internet-based phone service, on Thursday is expected to announce a pact with Viseon, a maker of video phones. Viseon's phones plug into fast, broadband Internet hookups.
Many service providers, including No. 1 cable firm Comcast, could be close behind. They've been testing video phones, a long-anticipated product that broadband is helping make a reality.
Privately held Vonage hopes to jump-start the video phone market just as it did Internet phone service. Edison, N.J.-based Vonage has signed up more than 260,000 consumers for its voice over Internet protocol services. It's the VoIP leader, though Comcast is just one of the big companies in, or about to enter, the field.
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Posted by vonage on Thursday, December 09 @ 23:19:23 UTC
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