Phone.com Launches First Hosted HD Voice Phone Network
"Big Business" Phone Technology Affordable for Small Businesses
LIVINGSTON, N.J., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Phone.com LLC is pleased to announce
the introduction of its new hosted High Definition (HD) Business Phone
service. The new High Definition Business Phone service is an add-on to
Phone.com's successful Virtual Office service.
With the new Phone.com Business Phone service, home offices and other small
businesses will now be able to enjoy professional welcome greetings, phone
menus, extension dialing, sophisticated call routing, voicemail, fax and many
more features with HD quality.
The service allows any business to purchase an IP Business Phone(s) that will
complement their Phone.com Virtual Office account and offer the pinnacle of
voice quality phone service with an "all included" feature set that is
unavailable to small businesses from any of the traditional phone companies.
"High Definition voice services are the future of telecommunications," says
industry pioneer and the organizer of the HD Communications Summit, Jeff
Pulver. "Broadband and HD voice expand productivity and the range of
applications. Standard definition voice is headed to the same place as dial-up
Internet access. I am pleased to see service providers like Phone.com offering
HD capability with their new hosted Business Phone service."
Phone.com customers who purchase an HD enabled phone will be able to
communicate with other customers who have an HD phone. Calls to users of other
networks will require their adoption of HD voice capability; both parties will
need to have an HD phone set in order to take advantage of the higher voice
quality.
"We are very proud of our new Business Phone service. It will be a great
addition to our Virtual Office customers and to new small businesses," said
Ari Rabban, CEO of Phone.com. "We are also happy to have a network that will
support HD phones and offer the future of what phone calls would sound like.
After extensive testing we chose the new Polycom HD business phones as the
phone of choice on our Business Phone service and we will be expanding our
selection in the next few months. Polycom is a true leader in the space,"
continued Rabban.
Phone.com will be offering Polycom SoundStation® IP conference phones and
Polycom SoundPoint® IP desktop phones as part of its HD service. The Polycom
phones feature Polycom HD Voice, which offers more than twice the clarity of
ordinary phones for more natural, lifelike conversations.
Expanding on the relationship between Phone.com and Polycom, Jeffrey Rodman,
Co-Founder of Polycom and CTO Voice Division, also looks to the future. "We're
delighted that an innovative company like Phone.com now supports Polycom HD
Voice across its network. The market is moving to HD Voice as part of the
natural evolution of the industry, and the benefits are obvious, especially
once you hear the lifelike sound quality."
"I really like this news for both partners," said Jon Arnold, Principal of
analyst consultancy J Arnold & Associates. "Being an early adopter, Phone.com
is using HD voice as a differentiator, and showing the market that even small
businesses can benefit from this great technology. For Polycom, Phone.com
offers a unique entree to a large market that has significant upside once they
discover how good HD really is."
Alon Cohen, EVP and CTO of Phone.com (and Co-founder of the first VoIP
company) said: "When we started the VoIP industry just 15 years ago we were
struggling with basic algorithms to transport voice over IP networks; it is
amazing to see how the industry has evolved in such a short time."
"There is no reason to keep voice phone conversations behind and as HD phones
and networks evolve everyone should be able to enjoy clear 'CD like quality'
voice," added Rabban. "This is not an overnight process and the use of HD
voice is still limited but we encourage other service providers to support the
service and help speed up the transition."
Please visit Phone.com's features page for a full list of Phone.com features
and services. All of these services come with our highly acclaimed 24/7
customer support team at extremely affordable prices.
About Phone.com
Phone.com is an online virtual phone company offering a variety of innovative,
economical phone services designed for entrepreneurs, home offices, small
businesses and individuals. Powered by advanced VoIP and SaaS technologies,
the company currently offers four Internet-based communications products:
Phone.com Virtual Office for small businesses, Phone.com Virtual Number for
individuals on the go and Phone.com Home Phone for consumers, with monthly
plans priced as low as $4.88.
Phone.com's mission is to offer the best value and peerless 24/7 customer
support for its unique telecommunications solutions. Phone.com products are
designed for the expanding marketplace of SOHO (small office/home office)
businesses and individuals. For further details: www.phone.com or call
800-997-9179.
Contact:
Bruce Freeman
973-716-9457
973-577-6380
pr@phone.com
SOURCE Phone.com LLC
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