I’m very proud to be able to announce our hosted IP PBX solution Sipcat Online, today. Continuing on our successful Sipcat IP PBX product, we are now offering small- and medium-sized businesses even more flexibility by removing the need to own a physical phone system. A broadband connection and IP telephones are all that is required to get started right away. Sipcat Online will be immediately available in more than 20 countries:

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Emergency services access has been a long time problem for pure play voip players. The ability of properly locating customers calling emergency services, or lack thereof, has prevented voip providers from implementing this service. EU policy makers now seek to regulate this situation by mandating emergency services access for voip providers.

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The year is nearing its end so it’s time for a look back and see what 2007 brought us. The people at VoIP News have compiled a list of the top 25 VoIP innovations of 2007. I’ve copied their bullet points here and added my comments. Scroll down for a link to the original article.

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While it is already possible on some handsets, VoIP over 3G networks doesn’t make sense economically in most countries. Even where flat rate data plans are available, they usually contain some kind of fair use policy, which will allow the operator to disconnect you from the service at any time. Yet VoIP on mobile handsets is ever increasing in popularity both in the consumer as in the business marketspace.

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With Microsoft’s recent entry in the unified communications space, Cisco is admitting their VAR’s are feeling the pressure. Customers are unsure about Microsoft’s new product lines and managers are urging their staff to at least look at Microsoft’s offering. Cisco’s has updated it sales material and says that, until now, Microsoft’s entry in the market has just lengthened sales cycles for a couple of days.

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