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 Internet ...

Internet telephony services can “bolt on” to your existing service and provide specific features, such as free or darn cheap long distance calls, call forwarding from desk phone to home phone to cell ...

Australia's third-largest Internet service provider (ISP), iiNet, today started offering its long-awaited Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to the public, billing it as a free second phone ...

Federal regulators on Wednesday agreed to impose or increase universal service fees on wireless and Internet-based phone subscribers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) changed the “safe ...

Routing voice over WANs has been touted for nearly 10 years but mainstream businesses have only recently begun to reap the benefits The potential savings from using wide area networks (WANs) for ...

Time Warner Cable plans to expand its Internet phone service into three or four more cities by year's end, Time Warner Chief Executive Richard Parsons said Wednesday. And next year, the company plans ...

Innovation is the driving force in today’s information economy. But innovation is in danger of being stifled in the central nervous system of the information economy itself–our telecommunications ...