Foreign Customers, Prospects and Carrier Subscribers Can Now Fax Abroad To Local Numbers in 11 Countries, at Local Costs
BRUSSELS, Belgium–June 24, 2008—Voxbone, a leading provider of local telephone numbers and VoIP transport to communications service providers and businesses worldwide, today announced fax support for its local-number service in eleven initial countries. The new support for T.38, an international signaling standard that enables the reliable transmission of faxes across packet data networks, will allow documents to be faxed around the world for the same cost to the sender as Voxbone-DID voice calls: at very low, local per-minute rates or for free.
Voxbone’s fax support will begin in Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, El Salvador, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom, effective today. Fax support will be carried over the same telephone numbers as voice numbers, if desired, and will incur no additional cost to number holders.
Using much the same concept through which voice is digitized and packetized for transport over IP networks, faxes sent over data networks are converted into packetized digital images, rather than tones representing images, as is done over traditional PSTN telephony. In the process, a transmitted fax signal can be compressed much further than voice without loss of quality. While best-quality voice transmission takes up 64 kbps and (in wideband applications) even more, T.38 reduces fax bandwidth to 14.4 kbps, keeping customers’ connectivity costs in check.
Customers can instantly lease and provision numbers through Voxbone’s self-care Web portal, turning the acquisition process from months to minutes.
Looking like a local
Voxbone’s DID (direct-inward dial) and toll-free numbers give its carrier, call center and major enterprise customers a way to establish a “local” presence in other countries, by being reachable through a local phone call and now, through local fax.
“A customer or prospect who sees an advertised local telephone number that costs little or nothing to dial will call or fax an overseas businesses as soon as any business physically located nearby or in-country,” says Rod Ullens, CEO and cofounder of Voxbone. “VoIP carriers will lease our U.K. numbers, for example, to give their English subscribers local access to their calling service. Voxbone delivers these incoming calls and faxes to the number holder/subscriber—the business or the carrier—through its global VoIP network.”
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About Voxbone
Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, Voxbone (www.voxbone.com) provides worldwide DID numbers and toll-free phone numbers over its own private intercontinental VoIP network. The all-IP architecture of the Voxbone core network enables customers to rapidly deploy new communications services with local presence, while simultaneously reducing costs. Voxbone leases international DID numbers and toll-free numbers via VoIP to organizations in North and South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific regions. It delivers high-quality call origination and provides the global infrastructure that enables its customers to expand to international markets quickly and efficiently. Using these numbers, Voxbone customers may receive inexpensive, locally dialed phone calls from 43 countries and faxes from 11. Founded in 2002, the company is privately held.
Contact:
Sue Huss, for Voxbone
sue.huss@comunicano.com
+1 619-379-4396
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