Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services allow users to place telephone calls over the internet rather than through traditional analog or cellular phone networks. VoIP has grown in popularity in ...

We don't need it often, but when we do, we really do. We've been fine with Voip.ms for a few years, and not really been burnt by any of the outages they've had. But today's outage after yesterday's ...

A cheap, Internet-based alternative to traditional telephone service is facing a sudden regulatory backlash that could slow adoption of the fast-growing technology, raise prices and put financially ...

Internet telephony companies already offer major cost savings over traditional telephone services, but now they're challenging one another for the title of cheapest of the cheap in an increasingly ...

Over the last several years, many consumers, small and medium size businesses (SMB) and even global enterprises have flocked to voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. And the industry has ...

Fring may not be much of a household name yet, but the mobile-communications client is certainly making a reputation for itself. Following a public falling-out with Skype earlier in the year, the ...

Learn why even the cheapest cloud phone system has a virtual switchboard that beats most hardware alternatives on price and complexity. In the early days of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN ...

VoIP is an internet-based service that can help you connect to people across the world for cheap. Credit: Bob Al-Greene / Mashable If you've never heard of VoIP, don't panic. It's not an acronym ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. A handful of ...

Depending on who you talk to these days, the security issues around IP telephony are either likely to bring about Armageddon or are massively over-hyped. One man firmly in the former camp is David ...