Interoute launches corporate VoIP service
March 30th, 2006 - Posted in Other, VoIPInteroute, claimed to be the owner of Europe’s most advanced next-generation voice and data network, has announced the launch of iSip, the first genuinely secure corporate VoIP service for business.
The service is said to be a significant breakthrough in business telephony because it provides companies with the first secure, enterprise-class alternative to popular VoIP services such as Skype.
iSip provides businesses with the significant advantages of VoIP telephony, namely free Internet calls, free national fixed line calls and radically reduced charges to mobiles and international calls, with none of the associated security concerns of free VoIP services.
The iSip service is delivered via Interoute’s wholly-owned next generation network and is specifically designed to provide the dramatic cost benefits of popular VoIP services while giving control back to an organisations’ IT department.
iSip is being launched as businesses across Europe are exploring the benefits of VoIP.
Thirty two million corporate employees across Western Europe will be connected to a VoIP system by 2010, according to a recent report from Analysys, the global advisers on telecoms, IT and media.
The report claimed that spending on business VoIP systems and services will grow by over 17% per annum for the next five years, reaching EUR12 billion in Western Europe.
By 2010, 1.6 million corporate employees in Western Europe will have discarded their traditional fixed office phone and have only a mobile phone handset.
This widespread move towards VoIP based solutions is also set to impact the traditional business voice telephony revenues of the large incumbent telecom companies, a market that Ofcom valued at £1.13bn (2004 figures) in the UK alone.
Ofcom’s figures for 2004 show that BT’s traditional business voice revenues stood at £596 million, 48 per cent of the UK market, so the potential impact of free business calls is clear.
Interoute has grown revenues by more than 100% each year since it restructured in 2003.
Over its owned and operated next generation network, Interoute offers a range of highly advanced services such as Arena, Europe’s largest and most successful VoIP-trading platform.
Source: eurocomms.co.uk