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TransPacificTelecom
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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
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| TransPacificTelecom turns ISPs into telephone companies overnight |
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| TPT demonstrates VIVOware and VIVO COMPLETE at ISPCON |
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SAN DIEGO, Nov. 5, 2002
- TransPacificTelecom (TPT) today introduced VIVOware
and VIVO COMPLETE, "plug-and-play" software and services
that turn Internet Service and other "last-mile" providers
into telephone companies overnight, able to generate new
revenue by offering long-distance phone services to broadband
Internet subscribers -- without launching a telecom network,
installing one network switch, or building management
and billing software from scratch.
TPT demonstrates VIVOware and VIVO COMPLETE at ISPCON in San Jose, booth 608.
Winner of a Best of Show award at the Internet Telephony Conference & Expo in October, where it was previewed, VIVOware is a feature-rich billing and customer care software application for VoIP services. It provides complete Web-enabled call detail record tracking, rating and routing, call completion reporting, automated customer invoicing and payment gateway, reporting and management tools with automated domestic and International rate tables, trouble tickets, and more.
VIVO COMPLETE integrates VIVOware with TPT's global VoIP infrastructure and network for routed domestic and international long-distance. For global applications, TPT's software and services deliver voice services over broadband Internet to remote locations where traditional phone service can take months to install and can be prohibitively costly.
VIVO COMPLETE is highly scalable, designed to support a range of business models, including flat-rate billing options and billions of calls. TPT's Alliance Partners and resellers set their own long-distance and local rates, design their own service plans, offer customized commission schedules, and provide personalized agent and customer access to VIVOware's Web-based software.
"VIVO COMPLETE is more than a software application," said Stephen Thomas, founder and chief executive officer of TPT. "It's everything a company needs to become successful selling Internet Telephony -- a seamless solution that may be private-labeled or co-branded."
"Finally there is a plug and play service that increases profit margins for ISPs," said Diane Brandis, chief operating officer of TPT. "Everyone uses and needs long distance. And everyone wants to lower their bills. This is an ideal way to offer telephony services to broadband consumers and business users - and to increase retention and profitability."
Since its preview in October, TPT has already signed as customers Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and small businesses, including 24 Transport Inc., a CLEC in Los Angeles; CCC Communications, an ISP with offices in Los Angeles and San Diego: and National Tax & Business, a consultant in Newport Beach, CA.
TPT also signed Freedom2Web for Ricochet (RNI), and has begun testing in San Diego to add VoIP to the high-speed wireless Internet data network.
"TPT offers a compelling combination of technology, software and services," said Walt Anderson, an investor and TPT director who is manager of Gold & Appel Transfer S.A., a private investment fund based in the British Virgin Islands. "There is little or no competition and, unlike other segments of the telecom industry, we see value and opportunity in TPT's groundbreaking innovations," said Anderson.
Market analyst Forrester Research Inc. reports "the $150 billion U.S. market for voice services has been left for dead - slow growth, low margin, and no innovation. But ripening IP-based services will combine voice with the Web to create vast new opportunities for service providers." Forrester describes VoIP as "a classic disruptive technology," and notes that "an astounding 15 percent of online consumers now use their PCs for voice calls" driving a "30-fold" growth rate.
About TransPacificTelecom
TransPacificTelecom, www.t-p-t.net and www.transpacifictelecom.com, 619-595-3122, is based in San Diego.
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