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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Managed service provider MegaPath (www.megapath.com) is quietly scooting up to HD voice, if the signs from Google and its blog are worth looking into. While the company hasn’t formally said it does HD voice, searching for “HD Voice” via Google typically pops up MegaPath’s “Cloud-Powered Biz VoIP” sponsored ad at the top of the search results. [...] New Edge Networks, the business services side of Earthlink, has announced that 8×8 has joined its “ecosystem” of business applications. New Edge business customers can access 8×8’s hosted HD voice network via MPLS and 8×8 customers can ride New Edge’s MPLS network with all the advantages it carries, such as end-to-end traffic prioritization and predictable [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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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