The call to quarantine and work from home to stem the spread of the coronavirus has caused a massive shift in network usage patterns, affecting where and when a network is used and the amount of traffic over these broadband networks. These shifts have also led to an increase in wireline voice traffic.
The VoIP market in the United States is strong and it’s growing. VoIP subscriptions grew 5% annually according to the latest FCC data. Yes, there’s cord-cutting and wireless-only home phones, but there are still over 60 million residential phone lines, mostly VoIP, in the U.S. Some customers still want a landline and there are good...
For the past several years I’ve started the year with a post looking back on how service provider voice is moving away from legacy approaches to a radically new solution we call the cloud voice platform (see last year’s Service Provider Voice – On the Road to the Cloud).
The FCC is making a big push to help consumers combat robocalls and telemarketing calls. Robocalling is an awful abuse of technology and our telecom infrastructure. It’s time for us to fight back and block these robocalls with new tools.
VoIP fraud is serious business and rightly worries the finance, security, and operations teams at service providers. And so we take it seriously with a collection of tools, safeguards, and policies that first aim to prevent fraud from taking place and then, secondly, mitigate the exposure should a bad guy get through. The limits we...
Last week Level 3 Communications and Alianza sponsored a COMPTEL webinar focused on a transformative approach to delivering voice services. In the webinar, The Clear Choice for Voice: The Cloud Outsource Model for Carriers, Level 3’s J.P. Gonzalez and I talked through the market dynamics forcing change and how the cloud can transform the business...
Yesterday we announced a new hosted fixed LTE voice over solution (VoLTE) that enables mobile service providers to further monetize their LTE spectrum with easy-to-launch and profitable VoIP services. This is ideally suited for the rural, regional and competitive mobile network operators (MNOs), but it works for any mobile operator that wants to add additional...
