Movistar interconnects with VoIP operator iBasis

Ecuadorian mobile operator Movistar Ecuador, a unit of Spain’s Telefónica, has connected to the network of US VoIP services wholesaler iBasis for termination of mobile international calling, iBasis said in a statement.
The interconnection will enable iBasis to provide its wholesale and retail customers with call interconnection to Movistar’s growing mobile phone network while providing a [...]

AstriCon 2007, the Open Source Telephony Conference

AstriCon 2007, the longest running conference of the most widely used open source telephony software, Asterisk. Digium created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk and uses it as the basis for its own voice over IP (VoIP) solutions. Using a dual-licensing model, Digium licenses Asterisk for use by myriad software and telecommunications companies [...]

Internet and international telecom in chaos

Internet and international telecom services were disrupted, for the second time within a week, from yesterday noon as miscreants in Chakoria, 121km off Chittagong, snapped the optical fibre line that connects the nation to the submarine cable.
On August 22, miscreants cut the optical fibre line at two points–about 60 metres of it in Lohagara, 76km [...]