The South African wireless internet operator iBurst says it plans to introduce IP-based voice telephony services later this month and will offer new customers a free VoIP handset in a bid to improve take-up. Its existing 55,000 subscribers will be able to buy the phone for ZAR200 (USD30), while all customers will be allocated a [...]
Its VoIP phone announcement yesterday represented a significant step towards Microsoft’s IP telephony goals. Nine manufacturers unveiled 15 IP telephones that will be compatible with Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft’s software for providing IP PBX functions over a corporate network. The manufacturers included ASUSTek Computer, GN Netcom, LG-Nortel, NEC, Plantronics, Polycom, Samsung, Tatung and ViTELiX
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You would have to be asleep to not realize how fast small business communications is growing. The reason? Small businesses didn’t have so many telecom choices a scant ten years ago. There was pretty much key systems and then some inexpensive PBXs came along thanks to AltiGen and other, similar players.
What is different now? VoIP. [...]
