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    1. 80% of Enterprises See Value in Unified Communications

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (May 16 2012) Applications , Marketing , Unified communications

      A survey by CompTIA shows that 80 percent of companies are interested in unified communications. 

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    2. Vonage shares slide as revenue continues to fall in Q1

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (May 2 2012) Marketing

      VoIP provider Vonage (Nasdaq: VG) today reported a second consecutive quarter of lower revenue, as well as lower earnings in the first quarter of 2012; the combination sent the company's share price down to a new low of $1.85, nearly 10 percent off its opening price, in late-morning trading. Shares of Holmdel, N.J.-based Vonage Holdings Corp. began the day at $2.08, and have traded in a 52-week range of $1 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Vonage Holdings Corp.   Vonage   Globe

    3. FCC to require VoIP providers to report service outages

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Apr 29 2012) Applications , IP Telephony

      VoIP providers will be required to report service outages to the Federal Communications Commission, under a final rule published Friday. Although the FCC extended outage-reporting requirements to VoIP service providers, the regulatory body has deferred action on providers of broadband Internet services. Originally, the new rule would have required VoIP and broadband providers to report outages based on the complete loss of service as well as instances when service is available but technical conditions effectively ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Federal Communication Commission

    4. Swedish operator TeliaSonera to charge for VoIP, Skype

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Apr 23 2012) Business Models , IP Telephony , Marketing

      Swedish telecom service provide TeliaSonera is taking a step that other European operators--as well as some of their U.S. counterparts--have been loathe to because of concerns about net neutrality interpretations. The company, today said it would start charging for VoIP calls, including those made across the Skype platform, in an effort to "start exploring new business models." Not only will it charge for the services, TeliaSonera said that it plans to charge more for ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   TeliaSonera

    5. S&P warns cable that VoIP revenue could follow telco landline biz

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Mar 28 2012) IP Telephony , Marketing

      Cable operators, which for years have been piling up revenue from VoIP phone service while their telco competitors have watched their bottom line from landlines erode, may finally be in line to share the pain. Standard & Poor's, in a recent report, said economic pressure, rising prices and market saturation finally may be prompting consumers to hang up their landlines with cable, too. The culprit may not be the VoIP service, but the high-cost of ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IMS   Cablevision   Optimum Lightpath

    6. Is the answer to full UC deployment in the cloud?

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Mar 26 2012) Applications , Unified communications

      Is the answer to full UC deployment in the cloud? If you're attending this week's Enterprise Connect in Orlando, you can be sure you'll be bombarded with what's quickly becoming this year's hottest tech trend dynamic duo: videoconferencing and unified communications. With study after study promising spectacular adoption rates of videoconferencing by everything from large enterprises to mom and pop businesses, the volume of news coming out about videoconferencing shouldn't be too surprising. In fact, more than 10 of ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Sprint Nextel   COO   Jim O'Neill Free

    7. ILECs turn to video, business, broadband to grow in Q4

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Mar 22 2012) Applications , Business Models

      FierceTelecom sizes up the performance of the top 10 ILECs including AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, Hawaiian Telcom and more, in a look at Q4 earnings. With traditional voice revenue continuing its death spiral, these telcos are placing their bets on broadband and video as well as business services. How well is that strategy paying off? Special Report (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AT&T   Hawaiian Telcom

    8. Study: European operators regularly block VoIP traffic

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Mar 18 2012) IP Telephony

      A Europen telecom regulator is accusing telecom companies of routinely using traffic management rules to interfere with VoIP traffic as well as peer-2-peer file sharing. Data from some 400 European operators--250 fixed and 150 mobile--shows blocking of VoIP calls, especially on mobile networks, is common, according to a study from the Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC). "The most frequently reported traffic management practices are the blocking and/or throttling of peer-to-peer (P2P ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Ofcom   Mango

    9. Avaya buys videoconferencing company Radvision for $230 million

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Mar 15 2012) Applications , Marketing , Unified communications

      Avaya has signed a deal to buy videoconferencing vendor Radvision (Nasdaq: RVSN) for $230 million. The deal will immediately give Avaya a strong presence in the videoconferencing market at a time when the sector is starting to sizzle. Both company's boards have approved the deal and Avayla said it expects to close on it in the next 90 days. In the process, Avaya gets a very strong videoconferencing product, which gives it another tool ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cisco   Tandberg   Kevin Kennedy

    10. Study: Pure IP saves 43% over PBX; enterprises still slow on UC adoption

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Mar 5 2012) Applications , Unified communications

      Pure IP infrastructure can save enterprises 43 percent over traditional PBX systems, a new study purports. The study, from Siemens Enterprise Communications, also said an increasingly mobile workforce is forcing more enterprises to adapt cloud technology, and staff training and headcount issues often delay a company's migration to a unified communications (UC) platform. Siemens said it looked at enterprise communications practices worldwide, including the influences of cloud computing and mobility on communications infrastructures. The ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cisco   Siemens   PBX

    11. Infonetics: 46% growth seen in VoIP, IMS market in 2012

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Feb 23 2012) IP Telephony , Marketing

      Despite increased activity in the carrier VoIP and IP Multimedia Subsystem equipment market in the fourth quarter, the segment tracked down for the year, according to a new report from Infonetics. Click here to zoom in on this chart. The research company, in its quarterly Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers report attributed the 2 percent slide to poor performance in legacy trunk media gateway and softswitch sales. Analyst Diane Myers said she ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   China Telecom   IMS   AT&T

    12. XConnect: Video communications poised for rapid expansion

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Feb 13 2012) Applications

      Network peering specialist XConnect said it saw a 61 percent increase in revenue across all services in 2011, driven in part by a booming video communications market and a spike in traffic across the company's global network. Business videoconferencing traffic growth is significantly outpacing overall business IP traffic, at a CAGR of 41 percent from 2010-2015, according to Cisco, which has projected a sixfold increase in videoconferencing traffic during that period. Last year, XConnect ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cisco   Cagr   Eli Katz

    13. After 6 years and $13.2 billion in losses, Alcatel-Lucent turns a profit in 2011

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Feb 12 2012) Marketing

      Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), which has proffered disappointing earnings over the past six years during which it rolled up some $13.17 billion in losses, Friday reported a $1.46 billion profit in 2011. Its first-ever profit for a full-year follows a $440 million loss in 2010. Shares rose on that news and on the company forecast for improved growth in 2012 and on plans to auction some of its 29,000 patents. The company Friday ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Alcatel

    14. Rebtel tops 15M users in 2011, eyes 25M in 2012

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Feb 12 2012) Business Models , IP Telephony

      VoIP provider Rebtel, which has increasingly turned its focus to mobile VoIP and has targeted Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)'s Skype as its main competitor, has grown its user log to more than 15 million customers, up from 10 million less than a year ago. The company, which last year said its revenues grew more than 120 percent to more than $40 million in 2010, ended 2011 with $60 million in revenue, topping its expected $55 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Rebtel   Andreas Bernstrom

    15. Verizon, BT expand telepresence offering with inter-carrier deal

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Feb 8 2012)

      In what's becoming a fast-moving trend, yet another pair of telcos have announced their telepresence offerings will be able to interconnect. Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and BT today said they're extending the range of their telepresence products to communicate with each other via Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) TelePresence. That means more customers using either service will be able to videoconference and collaborate using their respective immersive facilities. The deal essentially expands the telepresence community, helps ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Telstra   Cisco   AT&T

    16. Snom extends Ip Pbx capabilities to mobile devices with snom One

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Feb 5 2012) Mobility , Unified communications

      With worker mobility becoming a mushrooming problem to deal with for more companies, IP desktop phone provider snom technology is looking to make it easier to provision a business' cell phone fleet. The company has launched One IP PBX, adding mobility capabilities that extend standard IP PBX calling features to employee's mobile devices, and introducing new management and security features. One IP PBX enables users to integrate mobile phones into an organization's internal ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Srtp

    17. ShoreTel acquires M5 Networks for $160M as it looks to develop cloud business

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Feb 2 2012) Applications , Business Models , Marketing

      ShoreTel (Nasdaq: SHOR) has agreed to acquire M5 Networks in a deal valued as much as $160 million, giving it a major entrée to the booming cloud services business in the form of a strong hosted VoIP and UC operation. M5 shareholders will receive approximately $84 million in cash and 9.5 million shares of ShoreTel stock, which equates to a total of $146.3 million in initial consideration based on a ShoreTel's average ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Plantronics   Gartner   Dan Hoffman

    18. Study: SMBs looking closer at cloud communications solutions

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Jan 29 2012) Applications

      Small and medium businesses are becoming more comfortable using cloud services, a new study says, The survey, conducted by Webtorials for VoIP provider Fonality found that 14 percent more SMBs say they understand cloud-based service options but most still are focused on optimizing the total cost of operations. Those findings, said Fonality, create a window of opportunity for cloud-savvy vendors. "These findings suggest that SMBs are beginning to connect the cost-saving potential of (cloud) services ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   TCO   Fonality   Steve Taylor

    19. Cablevision's Optimum Lightpath targets SMBs with new conferencing lineup

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Jan 26 2012) Applications , Marketing

      Cablevision (NYSE: CVC)'s Optimum Lightpath, which sells VoIP and other Ethernet-based communication solutions in the New York metropolitan area businesses, is rolling out conferencing services that it says will deliver enterprise-class audio and web conferencing. The initiative is aimed at the increasingly UC-savvy mid-market business segment and is part of Optimum Lightpath's Collaboration Suite. The Optimum Lightpath Conference Bundle includes support for up to 300 audio only or 125 Web and audio participants ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Nemertes Research   Comcast

    20. Enterprise Communications earnings in the fourth quarter 2011

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Jan 25 2012) Applications , Unified communications

      Enterprise Communications earnings in the fourth quarter 2011 How did the IP Communications industry perform in the fourth quarter of 2011? Check here throughout the fourth-quarter earnings report season for full earnings reports from the key players in VoIP business, IP technology, Unified Communications, Voice 2.0 applications, Contact Center technology, IP service providers, enterprise and more.  Don't forget to check out sister publications for fourth quarter 2011 telecom earnings and fourth quarter 2011 IPTV earnings. January 18 8x8 (Nasdaq:EGHT)  8x8 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cisco   Logitech   Mitel

    21. U.S. cloud vendors risk losing European market due to data privacy disconnect

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Jan 23 2012) Marketing

      For the past year and beyond, a rising tide of concern within the European Parliament regarding its citizens' data privacy has put the U.S. on the defensive and American companies, particularly those selling cloud services, in a tight spot. EU companies and governments guard their customers' private data fiercely, but Patriot Act provisions make it possible for that data to be released to U.S. law enforcement despite EU regulations. And what the disconnect ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   European Parliament

    22. 8X8 Tops Earnings Estimates, Sees Revenue Grow 31%

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Jan 19 2012) Business Models

      8x8 (Nasdaq: EGHT) Wednesday reported revenue of $23.3 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2012, a 31 percent increase from a year ago. It also topped analyst earnings estimates with a 73 percent Y-o-Y increase to $2.6 million, or 4 cents per share. Wall Street had expected the company to deliver earnings of 3 cents per share. Chief executive and board chairman Bryan Martin, during the company's earnings call, pointed to ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cisco   AT&T   AT&T Mobility

    23. Polycom rolls out wholesale, carrier-ready video-as-a-service

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Jan 18 2012) Applications

      Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM) today launched a new cloud strategy that includes a RealPresence Cloud component that gives service providers a fully managed, carrier-ready wholesale video collaboration service. The announcement comes on the heels of news that details how telecoms spent $13.5 billion rolling out 170 new cloud initiatives in 2011, nearly one every other day. Polycom, which has been making a lot of noise lately about its RealPresence videoconferencing play, said the new cloud-based ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AT&T   IBM   Polycom

    24. Telecoms invested $13.5B in cloud service initiatives in 2011

      Explore fierceenterprisecommunications.com (Jan 17 2012) Unified communications

      AT&T (NYSE: T), CenturyLink, NTT, Telstra, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and Windstream were the top six cloud investors in 2011 as North American and Asian telecom operators accounted for 90 percent-about $12 billion-of cloud investments in 2011, according to new research. Informa Telecoms and Media said European operators, led by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Portugal Telecom and Telefonica, accounted for just seven percent, about $945 million, of the global total committed to cloud assets during the ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Telstra   AT&T   NTT