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The big moves continue. While Google Voice calls are still not available to that company’s Apps business customers, Skype has taken the beta tag off of their Skype Connect business VoIP offering.

What does it mean? Well, according to the company, Skype Connect has over 2,400 global customers so far and it’s certified for products from Avaya, Cisco, SIPfoundry, ShoreTel and other OEM. New business customers can use Skype Connect with their existing PBX and UC systems to make outbound calls from desktop phones to landlines and mobiles worldwide at Skype’s discounted long distance rates and receive calls from landlines or mobile phones in the corporate PBX using Skype’s online numbers purchased separately. They can also receive inbound calls from Skype connected users worldwide with Skype’s Click & Call buttons placed on company website and manage Skype calls using their existing PBX or UC systems’ features such as call routing, automatic call distribution, conferencing, auto-attendant, voicemail, call recording and logging.

With the latest acquisition rumors, the IPO imminent, and the competition heating up, it will be interesting to see how the SMB world takes to Skype’s offering.

For more:
- read the company blog post
- read GigaOm’s commentary

Related news:
Skype filing reveals company’s worries, strategy
Skype for SIP adds new IP PBXs and gateways for SMBs

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The latest Inc. 5000 is out and among the list of the fastest growing companies are some of the businesses we highlight here are FierceVoIP. What I find most interesting about the way Inc. discusses these companies is that it looks at their last three years of growth. With the economy the way it has been in the last three years, you’d be hard pressed to imagine some of the impressive growth numbers these companies have put up.

VOX Network Solutions which offers design, maintenance and installation of converged voice and data services including IP telephony, unified communications as well as mobile services makes the list at #160. The Nortel partner was ranked #2 Best Place to Work in San Francisco, but according to Inc., most of those employees practice what they preach and telecommute. Back in December, the company launched a mobile VoIP app and recently it launched a service geared towards military families. The company has experienced 1736% growth over the last three years!

Coming in at #254 is Vocalocity–a company that experienced 1218% growth over a three year period. Acquired by ZivVa in 2006, the company has turned its VocalOS VoIP soft-switch technology into a hosted environment to develop voice applications rapidly. The VocalocityPBX runs atop of VocalOS solution. Over the last few months Vocalocity has had a number of funding rounds with the most recent bringing in $3.45 million. Vocalocity focuses on small businesses with 50 customers or less and offers all of its own VoIP technology so that they can handle all of their customer needs where some other companies might need outside technicians to service third-party devices.

Another company that we follow quite regularly that is featured in the Inc. 5000 is GENBAND at #690. Recently purchasing Nortel CVAS and launching its combined roadmap and GENius abstraction layer platform, GENBAND, the IP applications, switching and service solutions company, has made some big moves over the last year. GENBAND’s IP solutions are deployed by two thirds of the world’s 100 largest service providers. GENBAND saw 445% growth over the last three years.

It is great to see some companies in our industry posting huge numbers and making the Inc. 5000 list. It shows that the VoIP sector is still a place of innovation and growth. With these companies showing such success in even some of the worst of times, it’s a great indicator of how well our industry at large is doing. Check out the Inc. 5000 here.–Mike

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The mobile VoIP market is still wide open. Well, according to TheStreet.com’s analysis it is. With most mobile phone owners still opting to pay for a voice plan in conjunction with their data plan, it would appear that the VoIP mobile market still hasn’t quite caught on, but the opportunity is ripe.

TheStreet notes that only AT&T’s data plan offering for the iPad and iPod Touch truly provides the possibility of a mobile-VoIP-only phone. With AT&T, a user can get a data-only plan for between $14.99 and $25 and install a VoIP app like Skype to make mobile data VoIP calls without the hindrance of a costly voice plan. At the moment there are few other offers out there that would allow a smart phone owner to purchase only data and go solely VoIP over mobile, but that’s where the opportunity lies.

An interesting note is TheStreet’s hopes for Clearwire. The data-only mobile broadband service is situated to take advantage of the mobile VoIP trend with its highspeed, low-latency, inexpensive service. Clearwire has its own troubles and even recently signalled it would be switching its network to LTE, but the data-only play does make it a natural fit for mobile VoIP if it could just market its service that way.

For more:
- read the analysis

Related articles:
More VoIP coming to BlackBerry
Ten Mobile VoIP Apps for the iPhone

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Google is going after consumers with last week’s news about Google Talk being able to make calls now, and binding to GoogleVoice accounts as well. Well Skype isn’t sitting still, so while Google chases the no money crowd, Skype is following Willie Sutton’s line when asked why he robbed banks. “Because that’s where the money is” as the telecom disruptor goes upmarket and upstream into the Business and Enterprise realms with the renaming of Skype for SIP to Skype Connect.

According to today’s announcement Skype Connect already has over 2,400 active global customers and is now certified to work with PBX and UC products from Avaya, Cisco, SIPfoundry, ShoreTel and other OEMs. My client’s FreeTalk Connect offering is one of them and for small business provides the best option to blend Skype Connect (SIP) and Skype for Asterisk, plus PSTN lines all in one box. What’s more, the PSTN port provides easy access to E911, something that Skype Connect doesn’t offer but which other PBX suppliers can offer.

What’s neat here is that Skype Connect also works with older TDM PBXs or Key Systems which can now add Skype calling capabilities through third-party IP gateways from AudioCodes, Grandstream and others. Skype has also created the Skype Manager, a simple web-based tool, to allow IT managers to set-up Skype Connect and control Skype usage in a company as well as adding new dedicated customer support which includes real-time chat, another longstanding challenge that was in the way of Skype being totally business friendly.

With Skype Connect they have made their first formal stab into the business community, and clearly thought through the pain points that exist. Now the ball gets passed to the various equipment vendors and manufacturers to better explain why Skype should be in their business, and become their carrier of choice.

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