Communications-as-a-Service (CaaS) technology brings together business applications, the Internet and the world’s public-switched telephone network (PSTN) to provide businesses with new ways of enabling communication. Here’s how to leverage this new technology. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
It’s tough for the phone business and data released this week from the FCC indicate that it’s not just people abandoning their wireline phones that are helping kill the copper-based voice biz, but also VoIP providers. Read more »
Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) is a doohickey that allows you to use an old-fashioned phone handset to make Internet calls. Vonage was using low cost ATAs to lure customers, and now Skype has joined the party, making it easier to make calls from your home phone. Read more »
Twilio, which provides a service so companies and web services can add voice or SMS to their menu of options, now will offer developers the option to use all IP communications as well as the old-school phone and mobile networks. Read more »
A report shows that by 2018, the traditional phone system is going to be reaching less than 6 percent of U.S. residents. It’s perhaps time to rethink the very notion of what a phone is and what defines the classic phone network. Read more »
Can you believe that VoIP-based telephony services brought in nearly $20.7 billion in revenues during the first six months of 2009? Incredible as it might sound, it is indeed true, according to data reported by market research firm Infonetics Research. Read more »
