VoIP News: January 2010

3 UK turned on its 10,000th 3G mobilebroadband site this week, the Mobile telecommunications company has announced. The switch on is part of a work programme 3 UK is undertaking to advance and expand its 3G infrastructure, which is already the biggest in the UK. The new site means that 3 UK's 3G coverage now reaches almost 93 per cent of the population.

Consumer electronics and computer software company Apple launched its new tablet computer, the iPad, yesterday. The device is designed for web browsing, emailing, viewing photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games and reading ebooks. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, said that the iPad "defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.

The time is now for engineers, developers, providers and vendors of Asterisk solutions, ChannelWeb has said. The theme of the recent Digium|Asterisk World conference in Miami was that open source VoIP PBX has come of age, according to the IT and communications industry information website. Open source supporters at the event felt that now is a better time than ever to further establish the likes of Asterisk PBX into networking and infrastructure, Chad Berndtson writes.

UK VoIP hardware is beginning to be understood by the lawmakers of the country, according to a report by John Higgins, director general of Intellect - the UK's technology industry trade association. Higgins said that the Digital Britain report "has contributed significantly to the sense that politicians of all parties understand just how vital next-generation broadband, and the digital economy as a whole, is to the UK’s future competitiveness - even though they may differ on the route to achieving it".

Support for VoIP solutions is set to grow through to 2014 and beyond, according to a report. The study by Juniper Research - "Mobile Cloud Applications & Services: Monetising Enterprise & Consumer Markets 2009-2014" - highlights the importance of data storage for the mobile phone sector. Cloud applications and services are used by VoIP carriers to support applications, provide operational infrastructure and better shuttle the flow of data.