Jajah calls patent big brothers for global VoIP domination
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Meesah wanna takem over dem telephones When a young company struts about proclaiming it wants to be "the Google of XYZ", it's hard to take seriously. Generally, it's a headline-grabbing conceit which doesn't actually mean a lot: every tech company would love Google's market share, stock price, teflon public image, and 767 party plane. Jajah, a Silicon Valley VoIP outfit, probably has more claim to deploy the soundbite without being yawned out of the room than most.â¦
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A new service promises cheaper mobile calls by exploiting VOIP, but it's not going to be easy. The big carriers must be considered, plus customers will have to punch lots of extra numbers. By Rachel Metz.
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Speaking at Germany's first-ever IT summit on Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said telecommunications companies need to hook up with the country's traditional heavyweights in the automotive and chemical sectors, especially in the area of software engineering.
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(InfoWorld) - This year's Telecom World show may not be as big or influential as previous ones, but the event is still a good personal networking opportunity for experts in the telecommunications industry. The week-long conference and exhibition, which opens Monday in Hong Kong for the first time, is the world's largest public networking event. But the show, hosted every three years by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations agency, has clearly gone through some turbulent times, mirroring the industry it represents. European equipment manufacturers such as Siemens, which once dominated exhibition halls with expansive multimillion dollar booths, have been pushed aside by aggressive Asian newcomers such as Huawei Technologies. But it's not only Asian competitors that have made life tough for traditional telephone equipment vendors such as Alcatel and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson; it's also competition from makers of Internet systems, notably Cisco Systems, which have helped build the first-generation IP (Internet Protocol) networks and are busy deploying the next-generation networks. Add to that the explosive growth of new mobile phone networks, which in many countries have bumped traditional landline telephone service to the sidelines. And add on top of that innovative new wireless technologies such as WiMax, which could outmuscle cellular to become the preferred next-generation mobility system, so-called 4G (fourth-generation) technology. So there's plenty to talk about, and numerous industry executives, including Masao Nakamura, president and chief executive officer of NTT DoCoMo, John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco, and Edward Zander, chairman and CEO of Motorola, are on board to present their views of the future in a number of forums. Organizers expect up to 57,000 visitors to attend Telecom World 2006, between Dec. 4 and 8, compared to the 102,000 visitors that attended the last Telecom World show, held in Geneva in 2003. The ITU expects 60 percent of visitors at this year's show to come from Asia and the Middle East. "The ITU event may be smaller than events in the past, but it's still a good venue for personal networking," said Tim Dillon, senior research director at Current Analysis. "My calendar is completely full of appointments, if that means anything."
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US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael Powell is calling for a hands-off regulatory approach to Voice over IP (VoIP) and has vowed to try to take regulatory control
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Media & professional: Interview: Bob Jeffrey wants to lead JWT into a digital era Britain is slowly embracing.
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The number of homes using Net telephony should reach 12 million by 2009, but existing VoIP players could face hurdles.
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Meta Group senior analyst David Willis said that he doesn&#39;t expect the Baby Bells to bow down just yet. &quot;I don&#39;t think VoIP is going to remain entirely unregulated over the next several years,&quot; Willis said.
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Vonage said Tuesday it had surpassed the two million customer mark, maintaining its position as the largest American VoIP communications provider. However, analysts warn Vonage's time at the top may be limited.
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VoIP service will be available using traditional handsets.
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Deutsche Telekom AG said on  Monday the company is backing Web telephone-calling start-up  Jajah, embracing a technology that undercuts rates for the  German telecommunication giant&#39;s established long-distance and  mobile phone businesses.
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Vonage, which helped popularize Internet telephone calling, faces brutal competitive pressure from bigger telecommunications players.
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Jaxtr is the latest in a new crop of VoIP startups that is attracting venture capital.
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Jajah completes big name backer roster Jajah, the Austro-Californian VoIP outfit we profiled last week, has announced that the mystery second investor in its third funding round is Deutsche Telekom (DT).â¦
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With its Internet-based phone service well established, AT&T (NYSE: T) now is  focusing on establishing common ground among the broad array of technology providers that help the operator deliver VoIP to businesses and consumers.
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By Elizabeth Lazarowitz, Daily News, New York  Feb. 5--With family and friends in such far-flung places as Hong Kong and  Argentina, Carlos Ronisky used to run up hefty phone bills just trying to keep  in touch.   Then he heard about VoIP.
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Lloyds TSB has tapped IBM as the key provider for its massive new VoIP infrastructure project. The new project will make Lloyds TSB the owners of one of the largest converged voice and data networks in Europe