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In order to reduce spending, Saudi Arabian Airlines has transitioned from traditional telephonic communication modes to an IP telephony system, which now covers its worldwide network, according to a press statement from service provider SITA.

NEC Corporation of America has revealed that certification has been awarded to Voice Carrier for its own SIP platform, allowing it to work jointly with the SL1100 Communications System and NEC UNIVERGE SV8100 Communications Server. Essentially, the certification means that the servers will efficiently work with Voice Carrier’s IntelliSIP SIP trunking platform.

Australian firm UXC Connect has released a new product which utilises the OpenTouch for Cloud feature from Alcatel-Lucent in order to offer flexible and secure communications abilities to its commercial clients across the country. The Integrated Telephony as a Service (iTaaS) offering was launched with help from NYSE and Alcatel-Lucent.

Integration and service firm NSC has been sold to Telstra in a deal thought to be worth around $100m. NSC, based in North Ryde, Sydney’s tech district, has 230 employees – all of whom will retain their jobs under Telstra’s NAS umbrella. A specialist when it comes to SMEs, NSC has expertise in call centres as well as long-standing relationships with other telecoms and networking equipment manufacturers.

One Source Networks, the managed services and cloud expert, has announced that its popular Cloud PBX service has won the 2013 Excellence Award for IP telephony. TMC named the recipient in Internet Telephony magazine. The firm’s offering allows businesses to take advantage of a complete PBX solution.

U.S. company Ipsmarx released an SIP trunking service earlier this month allowing service providers to relieve complexities that exist around routing and billing management, expand income potential and cut down on expenses – all simply by using a lone turnkey system.

Cable Bahamas Ltd has acquired Florida telecommunications firm US Metropolitan Telecom LLC. The sale, which was first announced late last year, is just one of a number of transactions that were given regulatory approval by the Bahamas Government. Cable Bahamas has proven to be vigorously pursuing worldwide expansion and the latest acquisition is an important part of its plan.

Connectivity systems and VoIP service provider Forerunner Technologies has announced that it has acquired all of the assets in Earthlink’s NEC Systems Business unit. The firm has traditionally supplied institutional clients and companies in the northeast of the US with service, sales and telecommunications equipment.

Information and communications technology specialist Huawei Enterprise has agreed terms with Telematics on a channel joint venture. The partnership cements the hard work that the Chinese firm has put in to increase its presence in the Middle East and spark the anticipated growth in the unified communications (UC) market.

VoIP migration firm Citel has announced that it will be exhibiting its Portico TVA device at the ITEXPO exhibition, which takes place in Las Vegas later this month. Microsoft has also requested the attendance of Broadway Connect Telecom Inc, one of Citel’s Partners, so it can demonstrate how the new solution enables legacy devices to work in harmony with Lync.