VOIP tech unveiled

After more than four years of development, a group of Israeli scientists and engineers from TMC Mobile has unveiled a VOIP cellular telecom technology that it hopes to eventually deploy widely in the US, states InformationWeek.

TCM Mobile's test network is up and running in Syracuse, New York, based on the unlicensed 2.4GHz spectrum band. The TCM network has been planned to take advantage of the free spectrum band, to avoid the heavy costs associated with licensed wireless technology spectrum.

Company president Haim Yashar, says: "We decided to come to market with an entire system." TCM has developed the various pieces of the network from its basic components to handsets to base stations and on through network calibration.”

Virtual social networking site, Second Life, is to extend its voice-based services into the real world with the ability to make calls and send text messages, says vnunet.com.

Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, has revealed its roadmap for the remainder of this year and into 2010, highlighting the evolution of its voice service, which has already racked up over 15 billion minutes since its introduction.

The first addition to the VOIP platform, currently under beta testing, is AvaLine, which will assign residents with a Second Life 'phone number' which can be dialled directly from an outside landline, mobile phone or VOIP application.

Unisys has introduced a fully converged messaging service for the Asia-Pacific telecommunications market, reports Telecommunications Review.

The service is part of the Unisys Messaging Bureau and integrates fixed, mobile and VOIP services. It will enable telcos to offer their subscribers products that combine their fixed and mobile and data messaging requirements in new converged messaging services.

This includes a single voice mailbox that combines messages left on separate VOIP, mobile and fixed phones, and a Web-based tool to access and manage fax, voice and e-mail messages in one inbox.