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Packnet are a VoIP and Telecommunications business based in based in Manchester UK. We are expanding our staff and currently have a vacancy for a VoIP Support Engineer at our Manchester location.

FreedomVoice, which is one of the largest providers of cloud VoIP business phone systems in the US, has made the announcement that Arizona’s Vivid Solutions, has been granted Platinum status. The award is highly regarded among those in the industry as it is only given to those which are considered to be among the field’s highest achievers. FreedomVoice, which also produces the FreedomIQ range, counts 28,000 businesses across the US as its customers.

An increasing number of enterprises are headed towards utilising a centralised SIP trunking deployment in order to increase network administration efficiency and cut down on costs, says research by Acme Packet, the SIP trunking supplier. Close to 60 per cent of the surveyed enterprises said that they are implementing, or plan to implement, a centralised SIP trunking deployment in preference to a distributed deployment, says a blog post by the US company.

Phybridge, a forerunner in the technology of two wire networking, has said that its PoLRE data switches portfolio will be distributed through Avaya, the business communication and collaboration solutions provider. They will be available through the firm’s Select Product program. The program enables a streamlined order process for customers wishing to order third-party apps compatible with Avaya.

According to a report by the Industry Analysis and Technology Division of Wireline Competition Bureau, business VoIP accounts for just less than 10% of business access lines; this against a rate of 37% for consumers. Although that may be a low overall number, it is expected that enterprises will be using business VoIP at a compound annual growth rate of 15% through 2014, says CTI Technology.

Businesses across the globe will likely seek ways of cutting down on expenditure and making an improvement to the bottom line, thanks to slow progress in the economic climate. One way in which they are expected to do this is by introducing business VoIP technology. The economy in the UK contracted again from October to December in 2012 and some commentators have expressed concerns that the country could yet see a triple-dip recession as little growth is expected in the first quarter of 2013.

Adhere Creative, an internet marketing company in Houston, has launched an SEO-optimised website for business phone systems firm Today’s Telecommunications Industries, LLC. The site provides a number of strategies for inbound marketing including social media and a blog. The firm has excelled when it comes to inbound online marketing and branding strategies which include content creation, content marketing, SEO and web design.

Many people are taking the self-employment route when it comes to escaping from financial difficulty, new figures show. The latest numbers from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have revealed a sharp increase in start-ups. Since the recession began, the number of those deciding to take the plunge had increased 9%. During this time, there has also been a 1% decrease in employment, an indicator of the impact self-employment has had.

The national air traffic control system spanning the entire country of Uruguay has been successfully adapted to enable all voice communications between controllers and aircraft crew to be sent and received via internet protocol (IP) telephony. It is understood that this achievement marks the first occasion when a nation’s entire air traffic control communications network has been linked via IP telephony technology in this way.

A new study by widely respected international research organisation, Frost & Sullivan, has predicted that the increasing take-up of internet protocol (IP) telephony and business VoIP (voice over internet protocol) among enterprises in Mexico will lead to significant growth in the adoption of unified communications (UC) facilities in the country.