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May 21, 2015

TalkTalk Business Picks Up tIPicall to Help Drive VoIP Push


By Steve Anderson
Contributing TMCnet Writer

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The rise of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service has opened up a great many opportunities for new business to rise, and session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking has been often seen right alongside it. To that end, it's not much surprise that TalkTalk Business made a new acquisition in tIPicall, a company that specializes in SIP network provision.


SIP trunking is often used in VoIP service, allowing for voice and video calling, as well as messaging, to take place over a standard network. Thus, TalkTalk Business picked up tIPicall as a means to provide free SIP trunking services to its partners, which in turn can offer VoIP services over that network. TalkTalk Business is already no slouch when it comes to providing voice service, as reports from the company's managing director, Charles Bligh, note that the company already carries over 16 billion minutes' worth of SIP traffic every year.

Bligh didn't stop there, though, going on to note that the addition of tIPicall to TalkTalk Business' lineup would help spark further competition and disruption in the market, as well as provide better connections for users, and more flexibility in the field. Bligh further noted that TalkTalk Business has always put a premium on innovation and disruption, with a goal toward being “...a fantastic all-around service.” Bligh even noted that the improvements in SIP would offer not only better value in pricing, but also offer improved reliability, training possibilities and improved on-boarding.

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Perhaps the high point of Bligh's remarks, though, included an unusual forward projection; Bligh reportedly anticipates that 2025 will mark a “switch-off” of traditional voice service. Thus, companies prepared for such moves now would likely come out ahead in the years to come. Bligh's assertion isn't the first time that such predictions have come to light; a report from ThinkSmallCell back in 2010 suggests that, at the then-current rates, all landlines in the United States would be disconnected outright by 2025. While it's easy to dispute Bligh's—and all those who made it with him—suggestion, the idea isn't so far-fetched. We know Internet service is generally improving. We know reach is getting better. We know all these things, so why not a complete switch to SIP trunking and VoIP service in 10 years? If that does prove to be the case, indeed, companies like TalkTalk Business will come out ahead, so this might be useful preparation to take on a whole new kind of market.

Only time will tell just what the SIP trunking/VoIP landscapes look like in 10 years. There are already competitors enough in the VoIP space, from Vonage (News - Alert) to MagicJack and beyond, to make its ascension a tough one, but it doesn't seem TalkTalk Business is taking this lying down.




Edited by Dominick Sorrentino
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