"telephony" news, interviews, and features

News about telephony

• Datagate targets Australian MSPs with converged telco service billing

  Datagate Innovation aims to help MSPs create new revenue streams through the sale of telephony services

• Melbourne IT provider wraps up telephony project for Airmaster

  Replaces Cisco telephony with 3CX

• Ruckus Wireless and reseller deploy Smart wireless telephony for Alex Perry’s new hotel

  Alex Perry’s new hotel and apartments in Brisbane gets fitted with Ruckus Wireless technology

• FCC requires consumer protections in telephone transition to IP

  Carriers must get permission from the FCC if they discontinue or reduce voice services during the change

• FCC looks to protect customers during voice switch to IP

  Carriers would be required to give customers warning before retiring their copper-based networks, under an agency proposal

• ACLU: NSA phone dragnet should be killed not amended

  The recent USA Freedom Act doesn't go far enough in reforming surveillance, an ACLU lawyer says

Features about telephony

• LTE makes headway on global roaming, speed and voice

  The first operators are now rolling out LTE-Advanced functionality, while Swisscom has showed global roaming is possible

• ARM's big.LITTLE processors and 1080p screens await smartphone buyers in 2013

  More operators are also expected to launch Voice-over-LTE services

• Unifying unified communications

  As adoption of unified communications grows, so does the management, complexity and potential harm to the infrastructure.