Philips launches line of telephones with Skype in the Brazilian market

São Paulo - Company launches two similar devices to the traditional ones of fixed line, aiming the public who has privacy with PCs.
The Philips presented in this Wednesday (04/04) two telephones with Skype software, capable to make linkings saw web (VoIP).


VoIP 080 very is seemed the devices of common fixed telephony. Connected to the computer by means of a handle USB, it it can be used for all the commands of the Skype, excusing the necessity of the keyboard or the screen of the computer. According to company, the idea is to also offer to the benefits of the VoIP the people who are not familiar with PCs, as the aged ones.

Between its functions it is the ClearVoice, that promotes the “cleanness” of the sound, approaching the experience with linkings saw Internet of the traditional calls. The device is available in the market for the suggested price of 159 Reals.

Another newness is VoIP 3211, device without wire that also can be used for traditional lines (the choice is made by means of a button in the proper device). It synchronizes functions as list of contacts and identification of call of the program in the proper screen.

The device functions in a distance of up to 300 meters of the base, on to the PC for handle USB, in free field - inside of a house, this distance is of 20 the 30 meters. The battery has duration of 10 hours approximately.

According to manufacturer, the device arrives at the Brazilian market still in this April month and will cost 439 Reals. It already was launched in the Europe and in Asia he has three months.

The expectation of the Philips is of that the launchings, that will be imported of Asia, result in an increase of 10% in vendas of its line of domestic communication.


Source: IDG Now

Philips launches line of telephones with Skype in the Brazilian market

Ceará opens licitation for VoIP service

In next day 9 to May, the Government of the State of the Ceará will launch notice with invitation to bid to renew the Net Governmental of Data and Images (Regov), infrastructure that establishs connection the public agencies. The project foresees the implementation of the voice service goes up IP and installation of one all backbone in the State, following the adopted model already in Pernambuco.

Values and stated periods of the contract had not been divulged. Currently, the Ceará is taken care of by the operator Telemar (Grupo Oi), but the contract is successful in July since year.

The Etice (company of Technology of the Information of the Ceará) will be the responsible one for the licitation of the Regov. According to Fernando Carvalho Gomes, director of the Etice, the State of the Ceará intends to modernize all the public net with telephony for the Internet, also using resources of the Skype and video under demand. With the new net, Gomes advances the possibility to introduce digital TV on IP.

The pertaining to the state of Ceará public universities already use service IP in videoconferência (video and voice) for international linkings. The proposal is to extend to the solution other nets and to add the Skype in local linkings.

Another initiative of the Ceará is the union of the technological polar regions northeasterns. René Teixeira Barreira, secretary of the Secretariat of Science and Technology of the State of the Ceará (Socitece), will present in the InfoBrasil event, that happens between days 23 and 26 of May, in $fortaleza, the base of the program of regional cooperation.


Source: IDG Now

Ceará opens licitation for VoIP service

Immediate benefits favor dissemination of VoIP

Segundo enquete carried through by the Reseller Web, searchs for alternative to the traditional telephony also detaches resources adds of technology IP


In accordance with enquete carried through by the Reseller Web, more than 23.7% of the readers bet in the immediate benefits of the voice technology on IP as main alternative to the traditional telephony, in 2007.
Already for 18,5% of the respondents, telephony IP presents advantages in relation to the VoIP. Of this total, 13.2% point the resources add of the technology as handspike for its dissemination between the corporative market, in this year, while 5.3% justify the preference for being a more lasting alternative.

In the opinion of most of the readers (55%), however, the business-oriented chances can in such a way be found in voice solutions on IP how much in telephony IP.

To complement the survey, 2.6% of the respondents had detached the VoIP as main alternative in telephony for 2007, on account of the sprouting of new operators.

In accordance with Júlio Puschel, analyst-senior of the The Yankee Group, the traffic of voice for IP in Latin America must reach 16,420 billion minutes, in 2009, against 1,009 billion, added in 2005, when the technology gave its first steps in the region. They is esteem that Brazil corresponds 50% of this volume.


Source: Reseller Web

Immediate benefits favor dissemination of VoIP

Operator of VoIP installs public telephones IP in the slum quarter of Paraisópolis

São Paulo - Community in São Paulo will have to the disposal eight cabin to make linkings with discounting of up to 60% in relation the orelhão.

The operator of telephony IP Tellfree goes to inaugurate in day 4 of April a telephonic rank with eight cabin in the slum quarter of Paraisópolis, one of the greaters of the city of São Paulo.

In the rank, the inhabitants will be able to make local linkings saw voice on IP for fixed telephones, at the cost of 13 Real cents the minute, and linkings of long distance for any place in Brazil, at the cost of 39 Real cents the minute, for fixed telephones.

Arthur Corrêa, responsible in the Tellfree for the project, that was made in partnership with the Communitarian Center of the slum quarter, said in an official notice to the press that the community was chosen by being very populous and for the great number of inhabitants come of other states.

Segundo Corrêa, the cost of the linkings arrives to be cheaper 60% in relation to the orelhão. The center goes to function of second a Saturday, of the 8 to the 22 hours, and the sundays, of the 8 to the 13 hours. To help the inhabitants to effect the linkings, it will always have an operator. The Tellfree acts all in 171 cities in the Country.


Source: IDG Now


Operator of VoIP installs public telephones IP in the slum quarter of Paraisópolis

Siemens announces telephone without wires that allows called VoIP and in the fixed net

The Siemens today announced the launching of the first telephone without VoIP wires (voice on Internet) that also she allows to make called through the fixed net.

In official notice, the Portuguese Siemens indicates that this telephone functions as a traditional telephone without wires, but is on in such a way to the fixed net as to the Internet and allows to make called for same Internet without the computer to be on.

To alternate the way of telephone of fixed net enters and the VoIP way, is enough to pressure during a certain time a keyboard key, needs the Siemens.


Source: Publico.pt


Siemens announces telephone without wires that allows called VoIP and in the fixed net

Companies reduce up to 80% of the expense with telephone when using VoIP

The economy in telephonic linkings was more easy and expressiva. The VoIP, or voice on IP, is the technology that becomes possible to establish telephonic conversations in a net IP, becoming the transmission of voice plus one of the services supported for the net of data. They is esteem that the economy in companies who had adopted the new technology turns around 20% 50% of the cost of the service of conventional telephony.

The initial idea is to make possible the communication of low cost inside of the companies and is of them. According to reviewed Focus economy and businesses, the reductions of costs of linkings are on average of 50% (if DDD), or of more than 80% (if DDI). Numbers exceeded for the entrepreneur Stewart Gomes Teles. It is partner of a company of web and technology of development of systems and affirms that, later that it started to use the Voip, the telephone accounts had lowered of R$ 5 a thousand for 800 R$ or R$ 1 a thousand. A economy of more than 80%.

This reduction is possible because the net of data of the telephonic communication saw VoIP is not subjects to the same tarifação of the conventional telephonic linkings, that is calculated in function of hourly geometric distances and of use established by the telephony operators.

Another great advantage of the VoIP in relation to the conventional telephony is that this last one is based on commutation of circuits, that can or not be used, while the VoIP uses commutation for packages, what it more becomes it “intelligent” in the exploitation of the existing resources, the physical circuits and width of band.

This characteristic, commutation for packages, also bring another advantage to the VoIP, that is the capacity of the voice packages “to search” optimum way between colon, having always more than a way, or route, available e, therefore, with bigger options of contingency.

In accordance with the professor of the course of Management of Telecommunications of the Salty University of Oliveira (Universe), Elisaudo Sousa de Jesus, this communication if gives through public nets as the Internet, being enough this the user to have a access to the net to make use of the VoIP service; or through private nets, that are corporative nets of the used companies for VoIP communications.

The professor indicates the site www.teleco.com.br/opvoip.asp. There, some VoIP operators are presented in Brazil and the exterior. The cost of implantation for companies depends on the dimension of the project and the level of requirement of the quality of the service.

To use the VoIP, the person must have one link good, that is, with adequate speed. To have a modem with VoIP. The news already are manufactured with this technology. E, clearly, to have Internet with connection ADSL, beyond paying for a company supplier a monthly tax of use that varies of R$ 100 R$ 1 a thousand.

Some suppliers of Internet as Uol and Terra already offer this type of technology for its subscribers. The Skype is one of the most famous services of the type, but it has restrictions. In these cases, you low the program for the Internet and makes linkings of favour for users and can directly bind for the fixed telephone of any person paying minimum tariff. You purchase credits in the site and go using in the linkings.

Vodafone shows cellular that they twirl Skype

HANOVER - The Vodafone showed new models of cellular that they twirl Skype in fair in Germany.The Vodafone, more international cellular operator of the world with more than 200 million subscribers, showed in the thursday called by the Internet made from cellular with software of the Skype.Affirming that it will be able to launch in the future the service, nicknamed Starfish, the Vodafone showed the application in the biggest fair of technology of the world, the CeBIT. “Not yet we decide if we go to launch it or the commercial terms and prices”, said Jan Holzberg, manager of product of the Vodafone Group.The Starfish allows that an user of cellular sees a list of contacts of some groups of colloquies, as MSN, Yahoo, AOL and Skype, and orders messages or makes a call for the Internet for some of them.The call made for the service uses only the canal of cellular telephony enters the device of the user and the station radio-base. The remain of the linking is completed by the Internet, exactly if the call crosses the world, different of the normal linkings that are carried by common telephonic nets.The software of the Starfish in the cellular one is essentially the same Skype program that is used for operator “3”, rival of lesser transport of the Vodafone, controlled for the Hutchison Whampoa. The service of the “3” was launched year passed in attempt to find new customers and to extend net traffic.The Starfish can cannibalize the traditional operation of cellular telephony of the Vodafone will have been launched, but the company, in the paper of market leader, needs to defend its participation against rivals.The service is a signal of that the Vodafone, greater cellular operator of the world is of China, and the Skype, greater company of telephony for the Internet of the world, with 200 million users almost registered, is finally if approaching. The Skype is controlled for eBay.