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When traveling abroad for business, it can get quite pricey to use your cell phone for international calls. But you don’t have to incur heavy fees and charges for using your phone out of your calling area. Instead, you can tap into VoIP and WiFi networks for less expensive alternatives.
Business Week had a great article [...]

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will know that it took next to no time for an intrepid blogger, Andy Abramson, to find a get-around to make VoIP calling from American Airline’s new in-flight Wi-Fi service. For a service that claims to have prevented that, it’s pretty sad. But Wired got [...]

Now you can surf the web while flying the friendly skies. American Airlines has rolled out Wi-Fi on flights longer than three hours. Fifteen of the company’s airplanes are outfitted with the capability.
The cost to passengers: $12.95 … that’s more expensive than Wi-Fi at Starbucks or AOL dial-up 10 years ago … I think.
But sorry [...]

I was speaking with a woman this week about her phone service. It seems that she has been having trouble with the clarity of her Vonage. She’d been perfectly happy with it until it started having interference. Now, she and her husband have magicJack ready to try out. Wonder which they will prefer?
CNET News reports [...]

Oh, to be a student at Westwood College.
Students from there are working with Cisco to set up the telephony infrastructure for the Democratic National Convention that is being held there later this month. The opportunity gives the students real-world experience that they otherwise wouldn’t have.
According to TMC:
Clay Chandler, national program advisor for the Cisco Networking [...]

ThinkTel is now using Empirix’s Hammer XMS to analyze and troubleshoot their VoIP network. The wholesale voice over broadband provider says that their problem resolution rates have increased by 40 percent since the Empirix was installed.
According to MarketWatch:
“After reviewing several diagnostic and monitoring options, it was clear Empirix’s Hammer XMS solution was the most comprehensive [...]

Having 911 services for VoIP is without a doubt extremely important. In fact, 911 is an essential service for winning over new customers. Vixxi Solution’s E-911 service for their VoIP network will come from Level 3.
According to the companies:
Under the terms of this agreement, Vixxi will leverage Level 3’s extensive geographic presence to route 911 [...]

Cablevision has a success story in its award-winning Optimum Voice digital voice-over-cable service. The VoIP service has just passed the 2 million phone line in service mark. More than one-third of homes where Cablevision’s fiber optic network is available have the service.
“The response by residential and small business customers alike to the value, reliability and [...]