VoIP News: August 2008

Web access has been linked to exam results in the latest internet access report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Over eight out of ten (82 per cent) of those who achieved an A to C grade in their GCE/GCSE exams had internet access at home, compared to just under three quarters (74 per cent) of people with grades D to G. The statistics also show that adults educated to degree level are the most likely to have internet access while those without any qualifications are the least likely.

Companies should get their IP telephony solutions running correctly before they think about more elaborate scenarios like unified communications, according to an expert. Joe Frost, vice president of marketing for Psytechnics, believes that there has been a lot of hype around unified communications, but says that his customers always say they have to get their IP telephony solutions right "before they would even consider moving toward a unified messaging environment".

Nearly a quarter of Britons have used wireless internet access from a PC in the last three months, according to a survey. The Office for National Statistics found that 23 per cent had logged in with wireless, including using Wi-Fi hot spots and wireless broadband cards. For Wi-Fi hot spots specifically, the figure was five per cent.

More households than ever have high-speed internet access, according to official figures, but some have claimed more needs to be done to deal with the "digital divide". A report by the Office for National Statistics shows that 56 per cent of homes in the UK currently have broadband, compared with just 51 per cent last year. Men were found to be the biggest internet users, with three-quarters of them having logged in over the last three months compared with 66 per cent of women.

Wireless VoIP will become increasingly common in the business telecoms industry over the next few weeks, a new report has suggested. Figures from ON World, a San Diego consultancy firm, predict that the number of people using mobile VoIP phones worldwide will reach 100 million by 2011, compared to just seven million in 2007, reports Business Week. This means that mobile VoIP services could create $33.