NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., March 6, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- BandTel(tm), a leading worldwide provider of SIP Trunking services, today announced it is expanding its target market to reach out to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). The move allows BandTel to work with these broadband providers to help expand their business by adding cost-effective, easy-to-deploy IP voice services for their enterprise customers. Broadband services and applications are now starting to appear in enterprises as bandwidth availability rises and costs drop.
BandTel allows for a straight SIP hand-off, which eliminates the need for a TDM gateway. ISPs and CLECs can easily transition to VoIP, virtually overnight, which allows them to enhance their service offerings and increase sales. Because BandTel is interoperable with just about any IP PBX on the market, there is no need for these providers to build the VoIP infrastructure, which shortens these providers' time to market.
"ISPs and CLECs need to accommodate the growing needs and demands of their enterprise customers who want to seamlessly integrate services such a voice and data into their existing infrastructure from end-to-end," stated Chris Dunk, CEO of BandTel. "By providing the highest quality and most reliable VoIP calls in the world, reduced telephony costs and increased call routing options, BandTel is well positioned to help ISPs and CLECs expand their business and revenue opportunities."
"BandTel allows us to expand our long distance access on high-volume routes at competitive rates, which makes them the ideal partner," stated Sean H. LeMons, Founder and CTO of Color Broadband Inc., the Largest Privately Owned Wireless Network in Los Angeles County. Color Broadband's multi-disciplined Internet network agency that specializes in the design, deployment, integration, and operation of broadband VoIP and broadband Wireless networks. "BandTel allows us to expand our service offerings and market while opening new revenue streams and opportunity for growth."
BandTel is the only SIP trunking provider that can natively handle extremely high call volumes and provide 99.999% uptime. With its fail-safe architecture, high Quality of Service (QoS) and complete echo cancellation, BandTel ensures complete call integrity and toll-quality VoIP calls worldwide. Its dialing plans are designed for any network and budget, and include both flat rate and minute usage agreements.
With BandTel's enhanced reliability and extensive footprint, service providers can offer their customers a fault-tolerant, scalable architecture, which reduces telecommunications costs and improves service quality.
About BandTel
BandTel is a leading worldwide provider of SIP Trunking services. The company is dedicated to ensuring its customers and partners alike have access to the most reliable, end-to-end VoIP service available on the market today. Its N-Plus(tm) architecture is designed to solve the throughput and redundancy problems on high-capacity SIP-based networks and eliminate any single point of failure. BandTel continues to develop strong partnerships with leading carriers and telecommunications companies such as: Global Crossing, XO Communications, Level 3, Qwest Communications, Verizon Business, and Primus. BandTel is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.