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Telanetix Restructures Debt To Allow For Growth

Source: www.voip-news.com

This company wants to grow…

Communications solutions provider Telanetix is restructing its $29.6 million in debt to lower debt service requirements and allow the company to grow.

“We have successfully negotiated the total restructuring of our current debt relationship. The restructuring allows us to fund organic growth of our business, rather than use cash for interest and debt repayment and provides an interest free period for over two years, with the first interest payment not due until October 2011,” said Doug Johnson, Telanetix’s CEO.

Is it smart for these debtors to allow Telanetix this concession so they can grow operations? The company sure thinks so.

“We are very pleased with the confidence that our debenture holders are placing in Telanetix and its management team. Significant concessions were made on their part to improve the capital structure of the Company, and we believe we will be a stronger and more valuable business as a result of the restructuring. The Company’s fully diluted shares, after the restructuring, stands at approximately 154 million shares. We strongly believe that this restructuring is a win for all involved in Telanetix,” said Johnson.

Published on May 11th, 2009 under , , ,

BT Receives High Marks In VPN Satisfaction Survey

Source: www.voip-news.com

BT Global Services received high marks in the global VPN customer experience report from Telemark Services.

“Customer experience improvement has been a major focus for BT in the last couple of years. We’ve made good progress towards our objective of making things right first time for customers. It’s great to see that our customers are also recognizing our efforts,” said Hanif Lalani, chief executive BT Global Services.

According to the company:

The global dataVPN report assesses operators by using Telemark’s customer satisfaction index (CSI), a series of 32 service attributes grouped in categories. Telemark compiles a league table of results ranking global operators according to the CSI. BT Global services was ranked first overall for customer satisfaction and received the Telemark Platinum Award. A total of 682 respondents from large business enterprises and multi-national corporations participated in the survey.

As the top global operator, BT Global Services is recognised for its ability to:

– focus on doing what matters most to customers better than competitors;
– earn the trust and confidence of customers through providing a
positive customer experience from bid to bill
– build relationships of trust at every contact interface;
– communicate proven success to reinforce a positive post-purchase
experience

“BT is perceived as best in class for the customer service experience with global data VPN, having achieved poll position in the overall customer satisfaction rankings for the second consecutive time. The Platinum Award, presented to BT by Telemark, acknowledges BT’s success in capturing the hearts and minds of customers with excellence and ahead of global rivals,” said Janet Watkin, Director of Telemark.

Published on March 17th, 2009 under , , ,

BT inmo Licensed by Qnective for Mobile VoIP

Source: www.voip-news.com

BT inmo is now licensed to sell mobile VoIP solutions from Qnective around the globe. BT inmo is developing secure, cost-effective mobile solutions for parent company BT Telecommunications. Qnective’s Qtalk products are a jumping off point for that.

“Qnective is pleased to be working with an industry leader to license Qnective’s first-of-its kind technology,” said Oswald Ortiz, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Qnective.

Qnective develops VoIP solutions for mobile communications, which are designed for operators and businesses.

“Qtalk from Qnective is the first truly mobile VoIP product which actually earns the ‘carrier grade’ rating. No other provider currently has a comparable, high-quality product and service range in a combined GSM and mobile data network environment such as HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE und GPRS,” said Harry van Streun, CEO, BT inmo.

Published on March 16th, 2009 under Object id #46

BT’s 21 Century Network Is So…Last Century

Source: gigaom.com

Ready for a little Friday humor? Well there’s this British carrier called BT that’s spending £10 billion ($17 billion) to build out an all-IP network that would handle the massive influx of converged data, voice and video traffic coming over the next few years on one network. They’ve been trashed and mocked, as so many visionaries often are, but they’ve kept on building, with the goal of finishing the network by 2011. Only they apparently didn’t build it to talk to the next-generation protocols, which is like spending £10 billion for a machine that translates spoken Latin.

BT told a high-speed broadband provider in the UK that it doesn’t support IPv6, which is a protocol backed by the Internet Engineering Task Force. There are all sorts of dire warnings explaining how as more devices connect to the Internet (like your digital picture frame or thermostat), we’re going to run out of IP addresses to give them. That means we need to upgrade to IPv6 before we’re forced to share IP addresses or take other measures. This requires a big effort from equipment vendors and site owners who have to build and host IPv6 sites. With the doomsday predictions saying IPv6 addresses will run out some time in 2012, it would appear that the BT 21 Century Network will be finished just in time to become obsolete.

Published on October 10th, 2008 under , , , ,

BT and Ribbit: A Sensible Partnership?

Source: www.voip-news.com

I mentioned that BT bought Ribbit recently. Ribbit created the SmartSwitch, a softswitch that can handle virtually any VoIP traffic.

So, why would this partnership of a traditional telecommunications company with a Silicone Valley specialty company make sense?

Find out ther answer here.

Published on August 1st, 2008 under , , , ,

BT Buys Ribbit for $105 Million

Source: gigaom.com

Will BT Make Ribbit Work?
  • Yes. Better To Look For Help Outside
  • Not a chance, $105 million wasted
  • BT, Ribbit… what? who?

BT (British Telecom) has acquired Silicon Valley-based Ribbit for roughly $105 million, according to various news outlets. Rumors of the deal first emerged on Venturebeat, though company officials vociferously denied any deal. Our sources say the delays were mostly due to internal issues at Ribbit.

Michael Boustridge, President, BT Americas said: “The Ribbit platform makes it simpler, cheaper and faster to build communications functionality into applications, enabling developers to introduce new revenue-generating voice services in hours, rather than weeks. By combining the Ribbit platform with BT’s existing web services, we have the potential to deliver some of the world’s finest applications for communications innovation benefiting consumers and businesses alike.”

As we have pointed out before, there seems to be a lot of interest in merging voice with Internet applications, but the whole process hasn’t been a slamdunk. Dameon Welch-Abernathy, in his post earlier this month pointed out:

… Ribbit, a company whose business model is to make telephony available through APIs. The thinking is that they’ll make their money on revenue shares as developers create interesting applications.

If Jaduka’s experience is any indication, however, I don’t expect Ribbit will last too much longer without a complete change of strategy. Ribbit might have 4,000 developers, but how many of them are actually making applications on which Ribbit is able to share revenue?

Taking that into context, this is a great exit for Ribbit founders Tedd Griggs and Crick Waters — and for Mountain View, Calif.-based Ribbit’s backers: Alsop Louie Partners, Allegis Capital, KPG Ventures and Peninsula Ventures. Ribbit was long on hype and underwhelming on end results.

As far as the buyer is concerned, I am not sure how much of a benefit BT is really going to see from the deal. BT has always been long on promise, but short on execution of its grand vision. Its 21CN is a perfect example. It was supposed to be this new network and a platform that would enable new services and seamless bandwidth. Someday it will.

The 21CN plan included a platform that allowed developers to embed voice into internet applications. That platform still exists, but one wonders if anyone is using it. So perhaps it had to go out and buy what is essentially a Class Five switch with a pretty Internet interface.

Ribbit, as an independent company, was able to get some — not a lot — of developer interest. I am not sure how BT is going to do that. It is, after all, a telecom operator that wants to operate like an Internet company. Sure, in a circus you can make a dog walk on two legs as well.

Published on July 29th, 2008 under , , , , , , ,

VoIPWatch Named To 25 Best BtoZ Blogs By The Standard

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

I was tipped off by a reader tonight about something special inside the Standard, the second coming of the Industry Standard.

When I read this, my chin dropped. I was stunned.

For the record, I don’t profess to be a techie, just someone who can make sense out of technology so others can understand. That was why I started VoIPWatch in 2003 with the basic idea behind it being four main objectives. Those same four still hold true today. For long time readers, this is nothing new. I’ve said it here before:

1. Make VoIP better understood by the media

2. Speak at conferences

3. Make new friends

4. Attract clients for Comunicano, my asymmetrical communications agency that represents so many fine startups not only in VoIP but in Mobile and 2.0 type service sectors.

Thank you all for your readership and loyalty, because without you, this wouldn’t be any fun.

Published on May 14th, 2008 under , , , , ,

Who Needs A FON When You Have BT Total Broadband

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

In a move that totally pre-empts the likes of FON and other "social hotspot" networks, BT has taken the concept of openness to a new level with the launch of a HotSpot available option at all TOTAL BROADBAND locations.

In their announcement they are actually promoting VoIP so this is a good sign for client Truphone and other VoIP on the mobile handsets.

What this means is BYE BYE MuniWireless and HELLO PUBLIC WIRELESS, a concept I have shared with friend and WiFi diva Esme Vos of MuniWireless fame. Basically what BT has done is what I suggest to a few folks years back on what the cable MSO’s should do…..darn I hate it when I’m right (again.) Steve Garrido are you remembering ?

Published on April 22nd, 2008 under , , , , , , ,

Wire One Bought By BT

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

With Telco 2.0 looming this week in London this story is rather timely.

WireOne, a video conferencing service provider has been acquired by British Telecom. Long regarded as one of the more forward thinking and inventive telecom companies, BT is making the move to augment their video related comms offerings at a time where everyone from Cisco, LifeSize, Polycom and Tandberg are all seeing growth according to a newsletter I also read by Elliot Gold of Electronic Telespan.

The timing couldn’t be better. With Video Conferencing growing in importance to companies and individuals, the BT purchase validates the marketplace as being emerging with a big and bright future.

Published on April 14th, 2008 under ,

BT and RingCentral Partner Up

Source: www.voip-news.com

Another virtual PBX option? Yep.

BT of the U.K. and RingCentral of the U.S. have partnered to create a virtual PBX system that lets users choose between using their standard phone or their computer to make calls. There’s a so-called Desktop Call Controller as well as the capabilities to greet callers with a uniform message, include holding music and other features to promote a professional business atmosphere for small businesses.

“The telephone is still an essential business tool, but when combined with an online virtual phone system like BT RingCentral, it becomes even more powerful for small businesses. It allows them to present a more professional image by giving them the tools that have traditionally only been open to big business and also gives them more control of how they communicate, with customers, colleagues and partners,” sai Bill Murphy, managing director of BT Business.

Published on March 18th, 2008 under , , ,

VoIP comes to healthcare units

Source: voipcentral.org

The Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust has now deployed VoIP technology to establish a strong communication network for the healthcare staffs so that they can make free or low cost VoIP calls over their handheld devices.

The Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust, a key organization of National Health Service (NHS) has reached out an agreement with BT to offer hosted VoIP service using NHSs N3 broadband network.

The deal is awarded to BT as part of the 12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). As part of the deal, the telecom giant will extend hosted VoIP service to PCTs three sites with more than 280 Cisco handsets.

The hosted VoIP service would converge voice and data on NHSs network. The trust will access to BTs hosted service as monthly rental fees. The trust workers will enjoy free VoIP calls and very inexpensive calls to their mobile phones.

It is first that healthcare units have adopted converged VoIP service to reduce their communication costs and build strong communication network.

Published on October 7th, 2007 under , ,

Nortel

Source: voipcentral.org

nortel communication server

Just imagine. The newly installed IP Telephony platform by the Department for Work and Pension (DWP) has managed to handle more than one million VoIP calls in a single day. The IP Telephony platform has been developed by BT. But, why is Nortel in news for that historic achievement?

A TMC blog post reveals that BT has used Nortel VoIP solutions for the development and deployment of DWPs IP network. It includes Nortels Communication Server 2000 Carrier class softswitch, 24,000 Nortel handsets (Nortel 2002 model), 4000 fax and other analogue devices, Nortel DWDM Optical and network security products and Nortel hosted service.

BT-supported DWPs Integrated Communications Network is one of the largest converged data and voice networks in Europe covering more than 435 sites in UK. The newly installed IP network provides communication services to nearly 35,000 users in UK.

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Published on August 26th, 2007 under , , , , ,

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