STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 3, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- The market for conference services has shown an explosive growth in the last few years, and is now worth nearly a billion dollars, in Sweden only, and now Telia brings out two new ways of meeting on the net.
"It is mainly the recession that has now made companies earnestly revise their costs," said Katarina Lundell, Telia Communications. "The new trend is that telephone, computer and videoconferences are increasingly intermixed. You should be able to talk on the phone while updating common documents directly on the web, or add equipment to your PC at prices ten times lower than traditional video equipment."
Conference services are more commonly used by big corporations, with many local offices throughout Sweden, abroad or in major cities like Stockholm and Goteborg.
Telia, already market leader in conference services, now offers two new services:
Telia TeleMeeting Web - where participants hook up to a telemeeting and at the same time log on to the web to see presentations or just work on the same document. The service starts on the Internet where the meeting is booked. Participants are summoned by e-mail and get a notice with meeting hours, code and web address.
Telia VisCom - where participants hook up to a video meeting, whether they use a PC, video conference equipment or just the ordinary phone. All those seeing the picture can work on the same document in the meeting. The first of its kind in Europe, the service integrates IP and ISDN, which makes it an open and fully compatible service. This way you need not buy any new equipment, you can very well use the one you have already got.
Telia is the Nordic leader in telecommunications. Over the past year, we have streamlined the Group, focusing our core businesses on making the company more flexible. Our four core businesses are: Mobile communications, Internet services, International carrier operations and Fixed network operations. Telia is listed on Stockholmsborsen. Sales for 2001 totaled MSEK 57,196 and the number of employees was 17,149.
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