New analysis from Frost & Sullivan Open-Source Telephony Solutions, finds that the installed base for business-grade, licensed, open-source telephony in terms of telephony lines/users is a little more than 200,000 users in North America. One of the most common factors holding back the adoption of open-source telephony is the assumption that the total cost of ownership is much higher than in proprietary cases. While this may have been true with ‘black-box’ solutions in the time division multiplexing (TDM) market, Internet Protocol (IP) telephony changes the paradigm.
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Outlaws are increasingly using the internet telephone service Skype to prevent their conversations being monitored, Swiss law enforcement officials report. Investigators are currently pursuing dozens of drug-related cases where Skype has been used for communications purposes. But the firm is keeping quiet over the issue.
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SoliCall has released PBXMate, a software product claimed to work with all popular VoIP softphones such as Skype and to dramatically reduce background noise by ‘tuning in’ to the speaker’s voice and ‘tuning out’ extraneous sounds.
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Skype’s team achieved some progress with the bug fixing that prevented logging into the service as there are over two million users online as of this writing, though the company’s Heartbeat status page is still showing problems with login.