Brits Prepare for VOIP Deluge
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UK telecom regulator Office of Communications (Ofcom) effectively gave the green light to voice-over-broadband competition today by ruling that service providers could provide geographic numbers (ones with area codes) to VOIP customers (see Ofcom Speaks
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Skype handset to launch Monday 3 UK has admitted that it's working on a Skype phone to bring VoIP connectivity to more of its mobile customers.â¦
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DALLAS, Sept. 11  /PRNewswire/ -- Though there has been a large amount of chatter on the subject of storing VoIP information, no telecommunications company has actually done it.  Until now.
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The government may take steps to ensure the UK has the infrastructure necessary for super-fast broadband.
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VoIP services are cropping up all over the place. We answer your questions about this new breed of phone services.
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Customers want the service, changes are in the works, and counting Vonage out could be a mistake.
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(InfoWorld) - Banks and other companies switching their phone systems to VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) are making themselves vulnerable to phishing attacks for which there are currently no effective detection or prevention tools, a security researcher warned Wednesday. "People will be able to penetrate bank networks and hijack their phone lines," said an independent security researcher, known by his pseudonym The Grugq, in an interview. VOIP is becoming increasingly common as companies and operators look to the technology to help cut costs, which makes them moreÂ vulnerable to attack, he said. The Groqg, who spoke this week at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, saidÂ VOIP phishing attacksÂ will emerge by the end of this year. The attacks will allow hackers to steal personal data, including credit card numbers and bank account information, and there is little security managers can do to stop them. "Theoretically, you phone up your bank and the customer service line has been taken over by hackers," The Grugq said. In this scenario, the customer would be asked by the hacker to enter personal banking information before being passed on to an actual bank customer-service representative. "There's no security technology out there that companies can deploy to fix this," The Grugq said, noting that existing intrusion-detection systems are not capable of detecting when a VOIP attack takes place. During his presentation at HITB, The Groqg announced the release of alpha code for SIPhallis, a tool he wrote that allows security managers to manage SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) VOIP packets on their networks. "It gives you an interface to create and send VOIP packets; it also allows monitoring of VOIP packets," he said, adding the application can also be used to inject packets into a VOIP stream. Existing softphone or PBX software is all that is required for hackers to launch a VOIP attack, The Grugq said. HITB runs through Thursday, Sept. 21.
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Telecoms regulator Ofcom has welcomed the arrival of Voice over IP (VoIP), aka &quot;Voice over Broadband&quot; down at the telecoms regulator, and promised to stay well out of the way as services develop.
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Ofcom may not allow 999 access VoIP users could soon feel the pain when it comes to contacting the emergency services via their internet connection, according to a speculative report by the Internet Telephony Services Providersâ Association (ITSPA).â¦
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The telecoms watchdog Ofcom is considering how to regulate firms that let you make calls via the net.
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British Telecommunications PLC (BT) plans to migrate its U.K. call centers to a new VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) system over the next two years, allowing around 9,700 call center agents on 124 sites to ...
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Lloyds TSB is gearing up to roll out one of the largest converged networks in Europe, a Â£500m 70,000 phone VoIP infrastructure linking all the bank&#39;s branches and cash points.
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A new batch of phone numbers will be assigned in Britain to accommodate the emerging market for cheap phone calls over the Internet, the UK's media and telecoms regulator said on Monday.
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Just need a PC and Bluetooth... UK-based ROK Mobile Communications has developed a VoIP application that uses your mobile telephone like a Bluetooth headset to connect to the company's network.â¦
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MORE Brits than ever before are tuning into the radio - and it's all down to the internet, digital TV and mobile phones.  Forty-five million people - threequarters of the population - listened to the radio every week in the last three months of 2006.
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Is there anybody out there? A network glitch left Vodafone UK customers travelling abroad without data and voice connectivity this morning.â¦
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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is one benefit of the convergence between data and telecommunications. Companies today are seeing the value of transporting voice over IP networks to reduce telephone and