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High speed broadband has been introduced to two Cornish villages, in what is believed to be the first such broadband outlay of its kind in rural Britain.

The new broadband connections have so far been supplied to homes and businesses in two villages near Truro – Chacewater and Blackwater – but further roll outs in Cornwall will be ongoing, with the total project expected to be completed by 2014.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s latest UK budget has included a pledge to develop 21 new enterprise zones across the country which will all have the capacity to adopt modern commercial-friendly technologies such as business VoIP.

The availability of technologies such as business VoIP in the new zones will be made possible through a promised roll out of high-speed broadband in each area.

Yealink, the successful Chinese telecommunications hardware company is set to introduce a new internet protocol (IP) telephony receiver model onto the market.

The new model – the SIP-T38G – is a desktop phone designed to integrate easily into existing internet business phone systems, along the lines of Yealink’s already popular model, the T-28.

The advantage of cheaper calls is often presented as one of the main reasons for switching a company’s business phone systems to those offered by a business VoIP provider.

Amidst the understandable haste to take advantage of cheaper calls, however, it is important not to overlook the many other benefits of VoIP.

A new version of Asterisk, the cornerstone software relied on by most business VoIP services, is due for public release this autumn, according to Malcolm Davenport, a respected source at Asterisk’s development company, Digium.

Although the new release is not expected to introduce any major modifications, it will still, according to Davenport, provide users with some important and useful updates. As such, the news is likely to be picked up with strong interest by many business VoIP users and providers.

Businesses based in remote and rural areas of the UK could soon be able to participate in business VoIP thanks to a new £20 million Community Broadband Fund announced by the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

The new fund will be used to provide these outlying areas with high speed broadband connectivity, enabling local businesses to take advantage of value added internet-based services such as telephony provided by a business VoIP provider.

A new report by analysts Research and Markets predicts that business VoIP may soon include video transmissions among its offerings.

The report, entitled ‘Global – VoIP – Overviews & Insights’, bases its prediction on the fact that business VoIP is one of the few sectors operating out of the recent economic downturn in which ongoing success continues to incentivise market players to invest in ever more improved and sophisticated solutions.

Online commerce trade group, the Cloud Industry Forum, has warned that the UK is in danger of losing out economically unless all small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across the country are given access to high speed broadband. The group goes as far to argue that economic recovery in the UK could even be hit as a result.

SIP trunking has resulted in cost reductions of 70% for at least one organisation, according to a top US commercial IT executive.

Answering questions at the recently held US telecommunications industry seminar, Enterprise Connect, vice president of communications architecture for Unified IT Systems, Sorrell Slaymaker, said that the 70% savings figure was one he had personally witnessed.