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  T-Mobile ties Wi-Fi BlackBerries to PBXes

  T-Mobile USA is expanding beyond its consumer roots on Monday with T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling with MobileOffice, a service that lets businesses extend capabilities of their desk phones to BlackBerry smartphones.

  By Stephen Lawson | 05 October, 2009 15:07

  Tags: IP PBX, pabx, RIM BlackBerry, t-mobile, wi-fi

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  Skype urges interoperability at Interop

  Peer-to-peer communications vendor Skype used its Interop keynote slot today to put out a call to traditional PBX vendors, inviting them to make their gear interoperable as the company tries to make inroads with businesses.

  By Tim Greene | 21 May, 2009 08:20

  Tags: Interop, interoperability, IP PBX, Skype, VoIP

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  Digium offers support of open source IP PBX

  Digium announced at VoiceCon Orlando that it will support subscriptions for businesses using Asterisk, the open source IP PBX.

  By Tim Greene | 01 April, 2009 09:50

  Tags: digium, IP PBX, open source

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  Five open source IP telephony projects to watch

  In addition to the well-known Asterisk, there is a vibrant community of open source software PBX systems that can be used for internal and service provider IP telephony. Here are five exciting open source VoIP and UC projects to keep an eye on.

  By Rodney Gedda | 21 October, 2009 10:53

  Tags: IP PBX, ip telephony, open source, sip, VoIP

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  Mark Spencer talks 10 years of Asterisk

  Mark Spencer, founder of Asterix, looks back on 10 years of the open source PBX and discusses its future -- and that of the VoIP industry in general.

  By Rodney Gedda | 15 October, 2009 06:16

  Tags: anniversaries, asterisk, ip-pabx, IP PBX, ip telephony, Mark Spencer, open source, VoIP

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