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In the July edition of our VoIP roundup, we look at ITSPA’s new security recommendations, how the Tour de France helped boost Yorkshires communications networks, Yealink’s announcement of a new global R&D centre and finally take a look at Silent Circle encrypted VoIP.

At the end of June, new legislation was introduced by the UK government allowing all employees the right to request flexible working if they have been working for a company for over 6 months.

In the June edition of our VoIP roundup, we look at the results of a recent SIP study, the first smartphone built to maximise security, snom’s announcement of a new CEO, recap WebRTC Conference and Expo IV and finally, the news that Viber reached 100 million concurrent users.

In the May edition of our VoIP roundup, we talk about snom’s commitment to interoperability, the world’s largest Asterisk-based service, Skype’s real-time language translator and finally Firefox’s plans to offer built-in VoIP and Video.

In the April edition of our VoIP roundup, we talk about VoIP and Unified Communications (UC) forecasted $88 billion revenue, give an overview of what happened at this years UC Summit and finish with news that all snom phones are safe from the Heartbleed bug.

On Thursday 8th May, PackNet will be attending the Connecting Cheshire event with a presentation on the business benefits of VoIP.

In the March edition of our VoIP roundup, we talk about new capabilities for Snom’s UC edition handsets, discuss Skype for Outlook.com and Google’s decision to merge Voice with Hangouts, as well as WhatsApp’s upcoming VoIP feature and the latest Asterisk update – 12.1.0.

As of today, snom have announced a big change in their entry-level handset pricing strategy, dropping the price of the 3 series handsets. This reduction in price has been deployed to bring snom’s high quality and reliable handsets within reach of small businesses in the UK.

In the February edition of our VoIP roundup, we take a look at Yealink’s new T48G VoIP phone, talk about Snom and Secusmart’s anti-tapping development and Viber’s $900 million acquisition by Rakuten, as well as an interesting video interview with Arkivum’s Allison Smith and news of Snom’s recent Product of the Year win.

In the January edition of our VoIP roundup, we recap the recent ITEXPO event in Miami, take a look at Snom’s new 715 VoIP phone and finally, discuss the news of the FCC’s announcement of IP-based telephony trials in America.