Republic Wireless, the division of Bandwidth.com that offers customers an Android phone with unlimited voice data and texts for $19 a month launches Tuesday. Here’s how it will work (there’s a $199 “membership” fee) and what it means for the wireless industry. Read More »
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Republic Wireless, a division of Bandwidth.com, is going to launch a super-cheap mobile voice and SMS service on Nov. 8. The service uses a mix of VoIP and cellular technologies. The service requires new hardware, though. Read More »
If there’s a cloud for compute, for storage and any other variation under the sun why shouldn’t there be a VoIP cloud to deliver telephony over the Internet? With the launch of Whistle, the 2600 Hertz Project will make building a VoIP cloud cheaper and easier. Read More »
Some of the developers behind FreePBX, a well-known open-source phone system, have teamed up and started The 2600hz Project, an entity promoting a collection of open-source telephony applications and libraries. They’re releasing blue.box, a reworked version of open source FreePBX. Read More »
Bandwidth.com today launched two new iPhone applications targeted at both consumers and small business customers: Holdr and Conference Starter. One app gets people together on the phone while the other frees you from annoying hold music as you wait to speak to a real, live person. Read More »
Bandwidth.com isn’t a name most people are familiar with, but it could become one of the leading voice providers over the next few years. Despite bringing in about $85 million in sales this year, Bandwidth.com sees voice as merely a launchpad for even more communications services. Read More »
