Vonage Reaches 25,000 Broadband VoIP Customers

Vonage activated its 25,000th VoIP customer line. The company said it is adding about 1,000 new lines to its network every week. To date, over 23 million calls have been completed across Vonage's SIP network. Vonage charges $39.99/month for unlimited calling throughout the US and Canada for residential customers. The service uses an adapter to connect regular phones to DSL or cable modem broadband connections.
http://www.vonage.com

• As of 08-May-2003, Yahoo! BB was providing VoIP residential service to 2,162,000 broadband customers in Japan.

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Hotsip AB Raises EUR 3 Million from Japanese Customer

Hotsip AB, a start-up based in Stockholm, Sweden, raised EUR 3 million in new funding from Bell Net Corporation, a Japanese systems integrator and one of Hotsip's customers. Hotsip is a developer of SIP enabled presence applications for broadband networks. Hotsip currently has two large-scale live deployments, the first being in Finland with TeliaSonera and the second in Japan. The Bell Net investment values Hotsip at EUR 30 million. Other investors in Hotsip include 3i, Argnor and Ledstiernan.
http://www.hotsip.com

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Voxpilot Develops Voice-enabled Polling Application

Voxpilot, a developer of VoiceXML, and Voice Business, an Austrian specialist in voice-enabled solutions for the call centre market, provided a speech-enabled telephone polling application that was used for a public opinion survey prior to the Austrian local elections. The poll called more than 3,000 selected opinion leaders to engage them in a natural dialog,, answer questions and make suggestions only a few days before the elections for the Austrian Landtag. The outbound call scheduler was able to make up to 450 calls per hour.
http://www.voxpilot.com

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