business European VoIP subscribers to become 88 million

It is expected that Europe will have 88 million VoIP users by 2012, according to research group InfoCom. This is A 240 percent rise over the 25.8 million VoIP subscriptions from June, 2007.

Europe's VoIP market is about double the US VoIP market because of strong competition by multiple providers.

3 comments | posted by: Tomad14/Mar/2008 17:16

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business Ericsson prepared to let go its PBX unit

Ericsson has agreed to sell its PBX unit to Aastra Technologies for 650 million Swedish crowns ($102 million). Ericsson is the world's largest mobile network manufacturer.

Ericsson representatives claim that the company will focus on providing its broad portfolio of enterprise applications directly to operators and service providers.

0 comments | posted by: Tomad19/Feb/2008 14:20

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business Vonage finalizes patent case with AT&T

It was a tough year for VoIP startup Vonage. First it was Verizon, then Sprint and finally, AT&T.

So far Vonage shall pay between $80 million to $120 to Verizon Communications Inc., depending on the results of its appeal of a court ruling on two patents, and $80 million to Sprint Nextel Corp.

0 comments | posted by: Tomad28/Dec/2007 17:49

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business eBay giving away Skype to… Google?

There is no proof nor denial that Google is to lay hands on eBay-owned VoIP giant Skype but regardless, there are rumours about it.

Such a maneuver does make sense with Google’s ambitions for disrupting the mobile industry through its new open mobile phone development platform Android, and for eBay - which was recently forced to admit that it had paid too much for Skype.

0 comments | posted by: Tomad23/Nov/2007 15:50

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business Vonage lost patent appeal

Vonage lost its patent appeal to Verizon and is now forced to pay $37.5 million more to that $80 million handed taken by Verizon so far. Not much of a surprise there.

Vonage, the VoIP patent scapegoat, gave major telcos, namely Verizon, Sprint and AT&T sums amounting $240 million.

3 comments | posted by: Tomad20/Nov/2007 16:04

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