EQO Expands its Mobile VoIP Service Globally

EQO Communications, today announced the expansion of its award-winning low-cost mobile VoIP service to over 200 countries. This now extends the availability of EQO’s calling services from its original 30 countries to over 200 countries including India, Russia, the Philippines and Brazil.

People from around the world have already been enjoying EQO’s free application that brings free international texting as well as free instant messaging to mobile phones. With this recent service expansion, all EQO users across the globe can now use EQO to make cheap calls. In addition, all EQO calling users will now have access to EQO’s presence feature, which displays in real time when their EQO friends are online and available to receive phone calls.

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GlobalConnect Selects Integrated BroadSoft-Rodopi Solution for Its Retail and Wholesale VoIP Services

Rodopi Software, a provider of billing and provisioning for broadband services, and BroadSoft Inc., a leading provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) application software, announced today that Global Connect A/S, a leading Danish telecom provider of fiber-optics-based services in Northern Europe, has chosen a BroadSoft-Rodopi integrated solution to provide wholesale and retail VoIP services throughout Denmark and parts of Sweden and Germany. Rodopi OSS provisions and bills GlobalConnect’s offerings - Hosted PBX, SIP Trunking and white-label retail VoIP - all delivered on the latest version of BroadSoft’s BroadWorks(R) platform.

GlobalConnect provides carrier-class network infrastructure solutions for the communications industry, large enterprises, government agencies and resellers. The company offers carrier-class connectivity throughout Denmark, western Sweden and northern Germany, making it the preferred alternative to the established national telecom companies in the region. In late 2007, Global Connect acquired IP services operator SuperTel to extend its existing solutions portfolio.

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How to Become a VoIP Reseller

TMCnet has a great article outlining the benefits of reselling VoIP services.

“What should be the path that companies have at their disposal to make a hassle free transition from being ‘just a provider’ to being ‘provider of VoIP services.’ It is quite evident that the corporate entities that are becoming VoIP resellers are not regretting their decisions any which way. As a matter of fact, they are making the most of VoIP reseller opportunities and offering high-end call termination services to their end users, customers and clients.”

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VoIP Guru to Offer Range of Security Gateways

After several months in stealth mode, VoIP super-expert Peter Cox has finally taken the wraps off his new security company, UM Labs.

The UK-based startup is planning a range of hardware-based VoIP security gateways for release this year, and is at an advanced enough stage of development to announce the feature set of the first three.

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The Case for Enterprise VoIP

VoIP offers enterprises tremendous savings in long distance charges. Whether it’s interconnecting branch offices or routing calls to a remote call center, VoIP is the best solution.  However, security over the public Internet is always a concern.

For this reason, business adopting VoIP also need a complete solution for an enterprise wide, secure VoIP Virtual Private Network (VPN).

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