VoIP Industry Trends

A new service from Messagenet offers users personalized web pages that can be clicked on to make calls or send text messages via PCs, smartphones or tablets.

According to a new report by 9to5Google, Google Voice is likely to follow the fate of both Google Messenger and Google Talk and have its major features rolled into Google Hangouts.

Avaya enhanced its Customer Experience Management solution - empowering businesses with a holistic view of customer life cycle experiences and enabling them to oversee and manage mobile, web and contact center events.

Alcatel Lucent has shipped over 125 million VoIP subscriber licenses globally with more than 88 million licenses Voice over LTE (VoLTE) subscriber licenses making up the bulk of shipments.

As the VoIP industry and markets continue to evolve, businesses and organizations that do not embrace and evolve with VoIP technologies will find themselves with major operational deficiencies and much less competitive in their core competencies.

After several repeated rebuffs by management, Charter Communications has taken an offer directly to shareholders in a bid to buy Time Warner Cable (TWC) for $61.3 billion.

According to a new report by Transparency Market Research, Unified Communications expenditures are predicted to grow from $22.8 Billion in 2011 to almost $62 Billion by 2018.

New research from Eastern Management is predicting that SIP trunking will account for 42 Percent of toll calling by 2018.

Comcast is currently test marketing SIP trunking within three major US markets an plans to move the VoIP-based calling service to a national level by the end of 2014.

Yealink and Flowroute have successfully completed interoperability testing - providing businesses and VoIP users with confidence that Yealink SIP phones are certified to work flawlessly with Flowroute’s enterprise-grade VoIP service.

Following the agreement it made with Comcast in early 2012, Verizon has established an interconnection agreement with Vonage - furthering the growing IP interconnection partnership program.

In what he refers to as "the Fourth Network Revolution", FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announces plans to transition the National Phone System from analog to IP based communications.

The Mitel / Aastra merger is the latest example of consolidation in the telecommunications industry. The resulting company will have over $1 Billion in annual revenue with a global footprint including 60 million end users.

Cisco Systems will fully acquire its software-defined-networking (SDN) incubator company Insieme Networks as it is looking to grow its SDN capabilities and fend off competitors such as VMware.

SIP trunking has jumped 23 percent over the second half of 2012, driven primarily by business VoIP activity in North America.

Struggling telecom Tellabs has agreed to be acquired by Marlin Equity Partner and be taken private for $891M. Martin Equity Partners will add Tellabs LTE-focused products to its recent NSN and Sycamore purchases.

VOIP provider Vocality, whose core customers are small and mid-sized businesses, has agreed to be acquired by Vonage for $105 million in cash and $25 million in stock - the deal is likely to close in the 4th quarter of 2013.

Viber is one of the most popular VoIP and messaging apps on the market and also the most recent player to offer in-app purchases in efforts to monetize its 200+ million users.

Findings of recent research show a need for managed service is gaining ground and the majority of channel players have experience delivering support in that way.

VoIP changed business communications forever, hosted VoIP is leading to greater cost savings, functionality and ease of use for small to mid-sized business.

Skype, in the 10 years of its existence has become a synonym for any kind of VoIP calling today.

A recent survey of small and medium-sized VoIP service providers takes a look into the numbers to better understand the market offerings and competitors.

Cloud based VoIP (also known as hosted VoIP) is approaching a 30% growth rate year over year; excellent news for the small business sector because, "lots of SMBs don’t want to bother with phone systems.”

RingCentral, a VoIP provider and cloud-based telephone systems company, filed a $100 million initial public offering (IPO), according to an S-1 filed on Aug 26, 2013. 8/26/13.

"The global VoIP services market is no longer in its early adopter stage", says Diane Myers, Infonetics head analyst for VoIP, UC and IMS.

A look at old technologies and the new technologies driving VoIP innovations. Unified communications are evolving to play a growing role in business telecommunications systems.