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Get ready! 15th annual ITW is just around the corner

By Aiste Kryzanovske April 7, 2022

The start of the International Telecoms Week is rapidly approaching. The 15th annual ITW will take place from the 9th of May until 12th of May at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, near Washington, DC. International Telecommunications Week is the world’s largest meeting of global leaders from the telecoms and ICT Infrastructure ecosystems, and it is a must-attend event for anybody driving and trailblazing the growth of telecommunication. ITW connects the international carrier, subsea, infrastructure, data center, cloud, software, and other communities, featuring over 2,000 companies from 148 countries. As the primary yearly gathering place for the global wholesale telecommunications community, ITW provides the greatest and most diverse networking opportunities for the worldwide wholesale telecoms industry through meetings, workshops, chats, and seminars. It’s a fully integrated exhibition with a variety of options for people to connect with individuals from all around the…

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Telecom Italia and CDP start network talks

By Aiste Kryzanovske April 5, 2022

Following an internal reorganization, Telecom Italia (TIM) has signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with the state investment bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to begin talks on a possible merger of its fixed network with the state-backed company Open Fiber. This initiative is aimed at reviving a long-standing goal to establish a single fiber network company in Italy. The notion of combining the networks of the two businesses to create a single national broadband network for Italy has been discussed for at least two years. The government-owned CDP, which has a 60% investment in Open Fiber and a 10% stake in TIM, has long advocated for such an alliance . The government has determined that establishing a unified network will allow for a faster rollout of fiber technology, avoiding an overbuild and maximizing the use of European recovery funding. The decision comes as TIM CEO Pietro Labriola pushes…

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Tel Q Global and Telinta team up to offer VoIP solutions to Internet Telephony Service Providers

By Aiste Kryzanovske March 31, 2022

Tel Q Global, a leading provider of Global Virtual Numbers, together with Telinta, a global leader in cloud-based white label VoIP switching and billing, today announced a comprehensive portfolio of solutions and joint promotions for VoIP service providers and Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs). Using Telinta’s hosted TeliCoreTM softswitch platform, VoIP service providers and their resellers can easily use Tel Q Global’s high-quality DIDs, Toll-Free & other type of Numbers in over 150 countries, to offer a full portfolio of VoIP & SMS services. Tel Q Global’s coverage includes phone numbers from hard-to-find locations such as Asia, Middle East & Africa and Latin America. The solutions offered by both companies can be combined to offer popular services such as Hosted PBX, SIP Trunking, Mobile VoIP calling via a brandable smartphone app, Business and Residential VoIP, Conferencing, and WebRTC. “Tel Q Global provides all types of DID numbers,…

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TIM to begin KKR talks and Open Fiber merger

By Aiste Kryzanovske March 15, 2022

Telecom Italia (TIM) said it will begin official discussions with KKR nearly four months after the US investment firm made a non-binding offer of $11.8 billion for the business. TIM said it has invited its CEO and chairman to speak with KKR to learn more about its prospective proposal after an almost six-hour board meeting on Sunday. TIM noted in a statement that its board of directors had directed CEO PietroLabriola and chairman Salvatore Rossi to conduct formal conversations with KKR in addition to those already held by its advisers in order to maximize shareholder value in respect to other potential interested parties. The release went on to say that the goal was to get information on the financial and industrial appeal and execution of KKR’s offer, as well as to define the length and breadth of the applicable confirmatory due diligence sought by the fund prior to a…

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Lleida.net signs a SaaS contract with Telefonica Global Solutions

By Aiste Kryzanovske February 9, 2022

Lleida.net, a technology services firm, has secured a new deal with the Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica Global Solutions (TGS) to deliver a broad range of SaaS services to TGS customers around the world. Registered SMS, Registered email, and Lleida.net platforms such as Click & Sign and Openum are all part of SaaS services. Under the terms of the agreement, Lleida.net will deliver SaaS services to TGS clients in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Chile. Since 2016, Lleida.net has collaborated with Telefonica’s wholesale, roaming and international divisions. Telefónica Global Solutions is the Telefónica business division responsible for providing innovative solutions in digitalization processes. It has over 1,500 clients in 170 countries and 110 points of presence that transport an average of more than 15 billion phone minutes per year while transferring 130 petabytes of roaming data. The Telefónica…

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Telinta adds MMS to its brandable mobile softphone

By Aiste Kryzanovske February 3, 2022

Telinta, a global leader in white label cloud-based switching and billing solutions for VoIP service providers, today announced that it has enhanced its brandable Mobile Softphone solution to support MMS (multimedia messaging service) from select providers. Telinta customers wishing to offer MMS can use MMS-enabled DIDs from both Endstream and VI Communication Services (formerly VoIP Innovations) with TeliGlobe. Any DID provider may be used for voice calling with TeliGlobe, or any of Telinta’s white label solutions for service providers. MMS, SMS, and free on-net messaging are available via both Telinta’s brandable and non-brandable Mobile Softphone options. TeliGlobe is a brandable Mobile Softphone app for both Android and Apple iOS mobile devices. The app is a key part of Telinta’s cloud-based solution for Mobile VoIP, and is available for free download by end users in both iTunes and Google Play. TeliGlobe offers an extremely affordable way for ITSPs and…

News Roundup

A quick roundup of the news in Telecoms | Week #49

By Aiste Kryzanovske December 10, 2021

Samsung to undertake a structural reorganization Samsung has announced yet another dramatic reorganization, this time separating the corporation into just two units: Device Solutions, which handles semiconductors, and the SET Division, which includes the mobile, consumer and television businesses. The reorganization looks to be strategic, indicating a change in focusing on the highly successful semiconductor market. Consolidating the consumer electronics and mobile companies should assist to streamline the company’s overall operations and improve synergies across the many sectors. Read more at: https://tinyurl.com/4e78wsfd AT&T to upgrade US Coast Guard network The Defense Information Systems Agency has selected AT&T to combine and enhance the US Coast Guard’s diverse data networks, awarding the company a $161 million, 11-year contract. AT&T will provide an IP-based Wide Area Network as well as ethernet, virtual private networking, private lines, fixed wireless, optical wavelength and commercial satellite connectivity to the Coast Guard. The contract was granted as…

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Telinta integrates Google Cloud for highly affordable voicemail transcription

By Aiste Kryzanovske November 3, 2021

Telinta, a global leader in white label cloud-based switching and billing solutions for VoIP service providers, announced that it has integrated highly cost-effective “speech-to-text” for voicemail transcription provided by Google Cloud. Google Cloud’s automated transcription enables VoIP service providers to easily transcribe voicemails on Telinta’s softswitch platform, and deliver the text to end users via email. Google Cloud’s sub-penny pricing provides an extremely cost-effective solution for automated voicemail-to-text (v2t) transcription in over 125 languages and dialects using the Telinta customers own Google Cloud account. Google Cloud provides options specially optimized and tuned for telephony. Voicemail is a standard part of Telinta’s white label solutions for VoIP service providers and is offered at no additional cost. Telinta has developed a special plug-in which enables Google Cloud voicemail transcription, and is available for a small monthly fee. Inbound minutes of traffic, including voicemail, is free for Telinta customers. The…

People & Interviews

Adam Zeibig of VCC Live: Seeking for a win-win scenario

By Aiste Kryzanovske October 18, 2021

In the fast-paced and demanding world of telecommunications, where new technologies and challenges are always around the next corner, Adam Zeibig, Carrier Manager at VCC Live, is always seeking for a win-win scenario. Read the VoIP.Review exclusive interview with Adam, in which he discusses his experience, motivations, and challenges working in the telecommunications sector, as well as his outlook on the future of AI and IoT in telecoms. Tell us about VCC Live and about your role in the company. VCC Live is a cloud-based contact center software providing company that is headquartered here in Budapest. But we also have legal entities in Germany and the United States. At the time I started here in the company, which was one and a half year ago, a little bit more than one and a half year ago, we had roughly 65 employees working for us, but during that time we…

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Iliad Italia invests in FiberCop

By Aiste Kryzanovske August 10, 2021

Telecom Italia (TIM) has inked a deal with the Italian branch of Xavier Niel’s Iliad to co-invest in TIM’s last-mile grid firm FiberCop in order to accelerate the deployment of fiber broadband lines in Italy. Under the terms of the agreement with TIM, Iliad will co-invest in FiberCop to assist in the development of the network that connects street cabinets to people’s houses. Iliad will receive access to Telecom Italia’s core fiber network, allowing it to provide ultrafast fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) connections to clients. According to TIM, the agreement validated FiberCop’s investment strategy, which aims to link 75 percent of Italy’s so-called grey and black zones, including cities and industrial districts, with FTTH connections at speeds of more than 1 gigabyte per second by 2025. The agreement’s financial terms were not disclosed. According to analysts, the FiberCop agreement might help TIM counter some of the heightened competitive pressure…