An unusual VoIP provider

A look at relative VoIP newcomer magicJack Convergence & VoIP Alert NetworkWorld.com | VoIP & Convergence Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Avaya Accelerating Unified Communications This Yankee Group report defines unified communications, the business drivers, raises awareness of the challenges associated with deployment, and then defines what a new architecture should look like. Yankee Group also provides insight into choosing a solutions vendor and pursuing the next steps in deployment. Spotlight Story An unusual VoIP provider By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick With some stand-alone VoIP services like Vonage stagnant and others like Verizon's VoiceWing and AT&T's CallVantage dead or dying, we decided to check in on a company called magicJack, an unusual VoIP provider. We were surprised with what we found out when we talked with Dan Borislow, the inventor of the technology and co-foundeder of the company. The biggest surprise? MagicJack has over 3 million customers and is adding 250,000 new customers a month, according to Borislow. Read full story Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. Larry Hettick is a principal analyst at Current Analysis. Related News: Editor's note: We will be changing how we send out Network World newsletters over the next few weeks. To ensure future delivery of your newsletters, please add nww_newsletters@newsletters.networkworld.com to your e-mail address book or 66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. An invention suited for the phone-bill weary Despite the recession, inventor and entrepreneur Dan Borislow said he is seeing dramatic success with his VoIP MagicJack telephone adapter. The device plugs into a computer's USB port and a phone to allow voice calls for ... MagicJack Makes Phone Calls On the Cheap Had I paid attention and seen the spam first, I would not have purchased a MagicJack VOIP telephony adapter when I ran into it at RadioShack. After all, nothing that is promoted using spam marketing can possibly be any ... A cheap VoIP alternative: magicJack Gibbs looks at magicJack, a good, cheap VoIP service, but support is lacking. AT&T expands its contact center portfolio AT&T last week announced that it has expanded its contact center portfolio with a new hosted service that features a shared platform using Genesys software. In another announcement, AT&T notified customers that it is discontinuing its CallVantage VoIP service in 2009. AT&T halts CallVantage VoIP - is this the end of stand-alone consumer VoIP? AT&T recently stopped offering its CallVantage VoIP service to new subscribers. 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