Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The Internet ...

Internet telephony services can “bolt on” to your existing service and provide specific features, such as free or darn cheap long distance calls, call forwarding from desk phone to home phone to cell ...

Time Warner Cable plans to expand its Internet phone service into three or four more cities by year's end, Time Warner Chief Executive Richard Parsons said Wednesday. And next year, the company plans ...

Routing voice over WANs has been touted for nearly 10 years but mainstream businesses have only recently begun to reap the benefits The potential savings from using wide area networks (WANs) for ...

Innovation is the driving force in today’s information economy. But innovation is in danger of being stifled in the central nervous system of the information economy itself–our telecommunications ...

Michael Silverton recently decided to ditch his traditional land line for an Internet telephone line. Silverton said he was surprised when he saw that he was paying SBC $40 a month for telephone ...

Fans of Internet telephone service, known as Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP, have long raved about how much cheaper it is than regular telephone service, but the lack of true "enhanced 911" ...