BellSouth is opening up its 911 routers to all Net telephony operators and nearing a deal to give Vonage access to its emergency calling infrastructure, the Baby Bell said Thursday. A day earlier, a ...

The FCC on Thursday gave Net phone carriers a late September deadline to provide the same kind of 911 service available to people who call for help from landline or cell phones. In one of the biggest ...

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. The deadline ...

Skype, the Internet telephony provider, Thursday urged regulators in Europe to intervene to ensure that users aren’t blocked from using their mobile phones to access much cheaper phone calls via the ...

Verizon Wireless and Skype this week announced a partnership that will see the latter's VoIP client ship on the U.S. operator's smartphones – a move that one analyst said is symptomatic of a change in ...

Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) is the future for telecom companies – Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), the three new fixed-network providers, and Type II telecom operators are all clamoring to establish ...

A U.K. startup specializing in offering Internet telephone service via certain Nokia Wi-Fi enabled cell phones is making few friends with mobile operators, signalling tension ahead in the high stakes ...