Vonage, Verizon set stage for further VoIP interconnection

Verizon recently established a VoIP interconnection agreement with Vonage, the latest pact that it hopes will set the foundation for its growing IP VoIP interconnection partnership program.

Maggie McCready, Vice President for Federal Regulatory Affairs at Verizon, wrote in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission that Vonage is the "second voluntarily negotiated commercial IP interconnection agreement for VoIP" and that it expects "other agreements will follow." Over the past two years, the telecommunications company had put the technical and operational elements together to conduct IP VoIP interconnection. Perhaps not surprisingly, what's driving Verizon to pursue more interconnection agreements is the growth of its FiOS Digital VoIP service.