Cincinnati Bell supporting HD through Evolve – more details to come

Evolve, a Cincinnati Bell Company focusing on business solutions, has just announced a new suite of “cloud” products based on an MPLS platform.  The Emerge product provides a hosted VoIP solution which will support HD Voice, says the PR rep.

More specifically, Evolve will support HD on both Polycom and Cisco handsets.  Of course, the devil [...]

Verizon VIPER looking at HD voice support by end of year

Verizon Business (www.verizonbusiness.com) introduction of VoIP Enterprise Routing – VIPER, not to be confused with Cisco’s VIPR – means no-toll domestic or international per-minute charges when calls are made between two Verizon VoIP customers in either the U.S. or Europe who are signed up for the feature.  Yes, it’s an all-SIP, no PSTN service feature [...]

Media5 introduces HD softphone app for the iPhone family

Media5 (www.media5corp.com) joins everyone else on the planet with an iPhone application, specifically the Media5-fone VoIP SIP Mobile Softphone (hit enough SEO key words?) V2.2.

There are two versions of Media5-fone available from the iPhone app store, a free version and a full edition, and there’s also a white-label version for service providers to trick out [...]

Phone.com builds channel sales

Phone.com is a sponsor of HD Voice News 

HD voice hosted VoIP provider Phone.com (www.phone.com) has announced its channel partner program (CPP).

The program is designed for professional sales agents and value-added resellers, offering “up-front Success Fee” opportunities, as well as a recurring percent from sales generated by CPP participants. 

Currently, there aren’t a lot [...]

Phone.com trunks to TurboBridge HD voice conferencing service

Phone.com (www.phone.com) is turning on a HD voice audio conferencing bridge for its business customers, with services provided by the very-busy TurboBridge (www.turbobridge.com).

Phone.com customers can get their own dedicated conference access number as well as speed dial access from their PHone.com Virtual Office phones to their own dedicated conference bridge.  Initially, TurboBridge conference service [...]

Alteva CEO walks through IP Peering Alliance HD voice peering alternatives

While the Cloud Communications Alliance (www.cloudcommunicationsalliance.com) gets all the buzz this week, the less-formal IP Peering Alliance is working with two different HD voice interoperability options.

Alteva (www.altevatel.com) CEO Bill Bumbernick said the IP Peering Alliance has about 15 interested service providers and four “active integrators” working with and looking to understand the technology solutions [...]

Cloud Communications Alliance emerges, embraces HD voice

Eight business VoIP service providers have more formally joined together as the Cloud Communications Alliance (CCA).  The newly created organization says it represents more than $100 million in combined annual revenue and collectively serve more than 110,000 businesses in the United States – and it wants to make good on HD voice peering.

Members of the [...]

HD voice gets a CrystalBlue Lite boost

Whaleback Systems (http://www.whalebacksystems.com) has announced a managed business service optimized for SIP trunks plus a new carrier partner program for selling the service to the SMB market.

CrystalBlue Lite is a managed VoIP offering specifically designed for carriers deploying SIP trunks and includes a “carrier-class” fault-tolerant IP PBX appliance at the customer site. The “low-cost” appliance [...]

VoIP providers FreecoNet, Edge Solutions offer HD voice in Poland

BankierPress and TMC Net unearth HD voice service providers in Eastern Europe.  

FreecoNet is described as the largest VoIP operator in Poland with an estimated share of about 40 percent of the pure-play VoIP market and about 65,000 to 70,000 active customers.

If the Google translation is correct, FreecoNet first offered HD voice in May [...]

Broadvox lines up behind HD voice with new hosted product

During its partner summit, Broadvox (www.broadvox.com) became the latest provider to offer HD voice support. Its newly announced GO!Hosted product lists “HD voice quality” among its many features.

GO!Hosted is being touted as “approximately two-thirds less” than what is being charged by (most other) hosted VoIP providers for similar services, with cost savings being delivered by [...]