Federal regulators on Wednesday agreed to impose or increase universal service fees on wireless and Internet-based phone subscribers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) changed the “safe ...

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 ...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), or Internet calling, makes it possible to make local or long-distance telephone voice calls over the Internet without going through a traditional landline ...

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 ...

The nation's third-largest ISP is battling problems with its recently launched Internet telephony service. The problems have seen some users of the service -- dubbed 'iinetphone' -- unable to make or ...

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. EarthLink ...

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" ...