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Australian internet telephony minnow Freshtel, a consumer player that recently started providing enterprise services, today revealed to the ASX it had depleted around half its cash reserves over the past year.
Internet telephony supplier Freshtel has inked a deal with local call-centre outsourcer Quantum Multimedia Communications which will see the firm's outbound calls to mobiles passed over Freshtel's network.
Internet service provider Netspace has delayed the launch of its Internet telephony product due to expanding ambitions to provide a full-service telephone solution.
Skype has come clean on the outage which made its service almost unusable for two days last week, claiming the disruption was the result of a restart which stemmed from a routine Windows update.
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Legislators must not make the mistake of subjecting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offerings to the same rules as telephony services, the heads of the global Internet regulator said.
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