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Editor’s note: Phone.com and ooma are sponsors of www.hdconnectnow.org Phone.com has announced the introduction of its new HD Business Phone service, adding to the company’s portfolio of VoIP Virtual Office Services. Businesses can purchase their own HD IP phones to complement their Phone.com Virtual Office account or purchase a phone from phone.com to use the service. This [...] AT&T is doing something with HD voice in San Antonio, but details are relatively sparse. Sources say that AT&T is doing an in-house trial, but have not clarified if this would be a consumer or business service. If true, AT&T would join Verizon as the second/other major North American carrier working with HD Voice. Verizon has [...] Lots of islands, with continents to come 5 providers queried/interviewed: 8×8/Packet 8, Alteva, Cablevision/Optimum Lightpath, Whaleback Systems, Verizon Business Many hosted business VoIP providers currently offer HD voice as an “upsell”/advanced feature to businesses and charge extra for it, but this is likely to change because HD-capable handsets are becoming more affordable and prolific, with Avaya and [...] As the fall of 2009 arrives in North America, so will HD voice. Within days, Best Buy will be stocking telo, ooma’s second generation hardware, for the holiday shopping season. As the leaves fully change colors and approaching the Thanksgiving holiday, 8×8 will flip the switch on its Aastra software upgrade. Both events — one [...] One point out of IT EXPO for all IP voice planning: New VoIP deployments need to deploy handsets which are HD capable, even if HD won’t be initially implemented. Given the relative cost of building HD into a phone — which Polycom CTO Jeff Rodman says is as little as a dollar these days — selecting [...] Without naming names, a number of all-IP service providers who have heartily embraced the Next Generation Network model seem to be blaise-faire on HD Communications and HD voice. Are they doing so at their own risk? A casual attitude to providing high-quality voice is all the more shocking given North America cable interest/intent to provide HD [...] Some buzz today around the decloaking of Cloud Telecomputers and the announcement of its “Glass Platform” business IP phone hardware OEM platform. If you’re looking for a marketing buzzword to define the hardware, it is “Media phone.” Glass has a lot of shiny bells and whistles for VoIP and geek users, including an 8 inch color [...] Sitting on the fence, preparing for the inevitable 4 providers queried/spoken about HD plans: Comcast, Cox, Optimum Lightpath (Cablevision), Time Warner 1 provider currently offering HD voice service: Optimum Lightpath (Cablevision) 3 providers who plan to offer HD voice service: Comcast, Cox, Time Warner While cable companies are working through the details of [...] |
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