VoIP's Best Week Ever

‘VoIP’s Best Week Ever’ is a segment of our blog dedicated to fresh and interesting links to all things VoIP, from unified communications news to VoIP phone releases. If you want to know what stories have the Junction Networks team buzzing, then be sure to check in every week for updates.

It’s earnings season!

Sure the GDP shrank and consumer spending fell more than expected, but it could be worse, right? In fact, companies which offer VoIP services may have reason to be optimistic. In "A look at VoIP earnings and sub growth", Pete Wylie from FierceVoIP compiled subscriber and revenue numbers for several major telecommunications companies and VoIP providers. The numbers weren’t too shabby, either. Major Telcos like AT&T and Sprint reported positive growth in their VoIP related services while VoIP service provider 8x8 reported a healthy net profit.

Legal troubles for Skype

In March, Skype, which is now owned by eBay, filed a lawsuit against founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who now own Joltid. The founders then tried to terminate their licensing agreement and brought on a counterclaim alleging Skype of violating Joltid’s copyright by misappropriating their code. Unfortunately for eBay, this whole mess will be sorted out in trial in June 2010, around the same time it had intended for Skype to go public. In the meantime, Skype has begun writing its own alternative code, which may or may not be as successful as what they were licensing. It seems to us like this could be a golden opportunity for Google Voice to take center stage.

Read the full story at Eweek.

And finally…

We know this wasn’t first announced this week, but we’re still excited about the Snom870. Wideband audio, Hi-def TFT color display, touch screen, AND an XML browser for applications? Let’s just say that we can’t wait to get our hands on one of these.