Vonage trips $69.5m patent
26 Sep 2007
Promises to side-step its way out, again
VoIP provider Vonage has lost another patent battle, this time with Sprint Nextel, which owns six infringed patents and stands to gain almost $70m in a court-ordered payout.
Vonage attacked by defunct rival
23 Aug 2007
A flare-up from SunRocket
It's a bit like fending off a house fly while you're locked in mortal combat with Godzilla.
Vonage attacked by defunct rival
23 Aug 2007
A flare-up from SunRocket
It's a bit like fending off a house fly while you're locked in mortal combat with Godzilla.
Skype apologises for network snafu
22 Aug 2007
Offers customers a free week as restitution
Skype has apologised for the network problems it experienced last week, and offered a free week to Pro, Unlimited, SkypeIn, and Voicemail customers.
VoIP glitch leaves users cut off
22 Aug 2007
Failure to communicate
Users of IP telephony service VoIP.co.uk were unable to place calls outside the company's network on Monday due to a technical glitch.
Patch Tuesday update triggered Skype outage
20 Aug 2007
Mass reboot exposes VoIP network stability bug
Skype has blamed last week's prolonged outage on the effects of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday.
Some Skypers get reconnected, but most still offline
17 Aug 2007
Trad telcos laugh all the way to the weekend
Some users, albeit far from a majority, are happily reporting they're now able to successfully reconnect to Skype following a problem which earlier this week floored the VoIP service.
Skype hangs up on users
16 Aug 2007
Worldwide connection problems
Updated: Skype's peer-to-peer technology appears to be to blame for a large-scale network outage, with users around the world experiencing connection problems.
Vonage works around Verizon patents
09 Aug 2007
But customers stay away
Vonage is still smarting from that legal tete-a-tete with Verizon, but after throwing together a trio of patent workarounds, it's confident that a full recovery is on the way.
VoIP services must offer 999, says Ofcom
26 Jul 2007
Calls for regulatory framework
Ofcom today proposed that all VoIP phone services allowing users to make calls to ordinary phone numbers must also offer access to make 999 emergency calls.