Jupiter Research has recently conducted studies stating that VoIP sales will reach $5.5 billion by 2007.

In a move to keep itself a strong player in the VoIP market, Skype has released a beta of Skype 2.5

TalkSwitch, an Ottawa-based company, is now supplying a a VoIP-based telephone system for 20Q.

UPC Broadband, a division of international cable operator Liberty Global, has released Nortel’s cable VoIP solution to provide a suite of enhanced voice services to residential customers in the Netherlands, France and Austria.

Vonage Canada has teamed up with Universal Music Canada to offer consumers free music downloads from Universal Music’s Website when they subscribe to Vonage VoIP service.

Small businesses now have the advantages of VoIP and save money on telecom.

QLIMG had previously agreed to install a system from another vendor less that a year ago. However, that system wasn’t ready for use. Naturally, problems arose.

IBM drew a warm reception from customers and experts when it announced plans to unleash VoIP telephony software for its System i machines.