A voice over IP (VoIP) service can improve your call quality and save you money compared with a traditional landline. These are the top VoIP services we've tested for home phone needs.

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. As Internet ...

Over the last couple of years, when I've wanted to take the temperature of the Vonage user community, I've often stopped at the Vonage Forum. This is a privately run enterprise, totally independent of ...

Available in early 2016, Vonage SmartWAN works over a private or public network. Designed for businesses with a high demand for voice, video and data communications to conduct their day-to-day ...

QoD is the first advanced network API being integrated¹ and represents one component of a larger vision for mobile networks as a platform that aligns network behavior with application intent as these ...

You would think by now that voice quality issues were a thing of the past, given that we've known how latency, jitter, and packet loss can impair VoIP quality for a couple of decades. But as network ...

Following up on the VoIP quality issues that we discussed in last week’s newsletter, this week we’d like to take a deeper dive into some of the possible problems that can make VoIP call quality ...

If you spend more than $60 a month on local and long-distance phone service, you may be able to save money by calling over the Internet. But while Voice over Internet Protocol (or VoIP) calling is ...

Clear Choice Test shows VoIP call quality can improve with SSL VPN links. VoIP is often written off as an application that will not work well over an SSL VPN link. To test that argument, we examined ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Last month we presented a real CLEC's unpleasant experience cutting over their PSTN circuit customers to VoIP (see Measuring VoIP Voice Quality ). Their main problem? How to measure and fine-tune VoIP ...

As Internet phone service heads toward the mainstream, the industry still has quality issues it needs to address, say experts. Momentum is building for services that let consumers make phone calls ...