- A New VoIP Paradigm With Microsoft's OCS 2007
Microsoft is late to the party, but comes in with a drum. It introduces a new way of using VoIP with its Office Communications Server 2007, and aims at replacing PBXs on the long term. Besides, there is focus on features that implement unified communications, a concept that has been a buzzword in communications in 2007. - Existence-threatening suits against Vonage on patents
Many said Vonage would close down after Verizon, then Sprint dragged it into lawsuits on patents. Vonage spent huge amounts of money, and its reputation suffered, but it still hanging on. Besides, many questions were raised on those patents. - Sunrocket Closes Down
When one of the leading service providers in the industry closes down leaving thousands of users without service, great is the havoc. But the number of other VoIP service providers absorbed the orphaned Sunrocket users so well that the pain quelled quickly. - Enhancement of Tools For Mobile VoIP
Your VoIP could be free only in front of the PC. Else, cheap calls were fixed at home or in the office. Users wanted to catch cheap VoIP on the move, and new applications and services came to unleash the feature. Examples are Yeigo, Fring and MobileTalk. - Free Hardware-Based VoIP Service With Ooma
With generic hardware-based VoIP services, you get the hardware for free and pay every month for the service. With ooma, a new type of service, you buy the hardware once-off and get free service ever after. - Keeping Your Phone Number Becomes A Right
Keeping their existing phone numbers has been a challenge for many users switching to VoIP, and 2007 has seen the FCC ruling for VoIP service providers to ensure phone number portability. - VoIP Security Holes
Great Skype went down for some days due to a virus. Though that caused more fear than harm, big questions cropped up on Skype's reliability, specially for businesses. Later on, Cisco admitted the existing of security flaws on their VoIP equipment, while some reknowned hackers made freaking declarations about hacking VoIP. - Click To Call And To Be Called
We also saw during the year the proliferation of the click to call feature that can, thanks to VoIP, be a major marketing tool. Now you can click on a link in a web page and within minutes or seconds receive a call on your phone.
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