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AT&T Launches New Services to Help Wholesale Customers Meet Increased Demand

Offers Include VoIP With Ethernet Access and eMaintenance

San Antonio, Texas, April 2, 2008

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced that the company is introducing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to help wholesale customers meet the burgeoning demand for these growth services.

AT&T is announcing the availability of a Gigabit Ethernet connectivity interface for AT&T Voice Over IP Connect Service (AVOICS) and the AT&T BusinessDirect^® portal for AT&T Global Hubbing IP Access (GHIA) customers.

The AVOICS Gigabit Ethernet connectivity interface enables customers to interconnect with the AT&T network more efficiently, more easily manage their networks and edge equipment and help reduce costs through the use of less expensive interface hardware.

The GHIA platform will now incorporate the award-winning AT&T BusinessDirect customer portal to manage all service maintenance issues, providing a virtual telecommunications department that helps customers manage their communications services online. This will help customers increase productivity, improve the speed and accuracy of transactions, optimize network efficiency in near real time and reduce costs.

Industry analysts have noted that VoIP is a growth engine for the wholesale industry. "The wholesale VoIP industry is expected to continue to grow through 2010," said Judy Reed Smith, founder and chief executive officer of ATLANTIC-ACM, which provides strategic consulting and research services to businesses around the world. "AT&T’s VoIP services enable service providers to broaden their footprint and increase their bandwidth by connecting to the AT&T IP network platform."

AVOICS is the flagship wholesale VoIP offered to U.S. service providers that require IP-based connectivity to AT&T’s global IP network for long distance call termination. Customers connect to AVOICS via AT&T’s Multiprotocol Label Switching-Private Network Transport (MPLS-PNT) service. AT&T’s advanced worldwide voice-networking infrastructure provides the foundation for a variety of unbranded and unbundled domestic long distance and international service offerings to wholesale customers for both resale and internal use. Just five months after AT&T announced the expanded availability of AVOICS, the company is responding to customer demands by adding an Ethernet access option.

The GHIA platform is designed to provide flexible solutions for both U.S. and global customers with high international call volumes. GHIA is a centrally managed service that allows service providers to easily establish and operate IP telephony services over AT&T’s award-winning global network.

"By adding these options to our portfolio, we are demonstrating our agility and continued commitment to provide innovative voice and IP solutions to our wholesale customers," said Rise Frankel, executive director of Wholesale Marketing for AT&T Operations Inc. "Ethernet is quickly becoming the de facto access method that wholesale customers are looking for in terms of capability and flexibility because it can be used as the foundation for VoIP, IP access, intranet connectivity and MPLS core services. An Ethernet interface typically allows for seamless growth as customer bandwidth requirements increase."

As a global leader, AT&T delivers a full portfolio of end-to-end, reliable and highly secure network, voice, data and IP solutions to the six wholesale industry segments that it serves: carriers, wireless operators, cable providers, systems integrators, Internet service providers and content providers. AT&T is one of the largest wholesale transport and communications service providers in the world — maintaining connections to more than 400 carriers in more than 220 countries and territories. AT&T brings value to wholesale customers through its global networking, industry-leading portfolio and vertical expertise.

For the complete selection of AT&T Wholesale offerings, visit www.att.com/wholesale.

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Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) today announced that the Wholesale VoIP channel, sponsored by Dalcom Telecom, has been launched as the latest addition to the TMCnet channel program.

This channel promotes VoIP business and includes an overview of Dalcom Telecom’s solutions. In addition, visitors can find valuable resources such as product trials, feature articles and industry news.The TMCNet has been a valuble resource to VoIP IP Telephony. You will find many a references to TMCNet (Specially the ITEXPO)and some of the authors like Rich Tehrani, Tom Keating, among many others, here.

More information and The channel itself could be found at wholesale-voip.

TMCnet’s channels are micro-targeted information portals where readers can find topic-specific news, articles, feature stories and product reviews. TMCnet has created over 100 channels covering important topics in the IP Communications, VoIP, IP Telephony, CRM, Call Center and Information Technology industries.

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Talkfree International VoIP reseller, has added two new tools to its centerpiece product, the “VoIP Phone Business in a Box.” The first tool, the “Inbound Telephone Numbers” program, arms TalkFree business customers and service resellers with a new service using Direct Inward Dial numbers (DID) from nearly 40 countries.
According to the press release by TalkFree, here are the benefits of the “Inbound Telephone Numbers” program include:

* Customers are given a “host” or “local” in-countryphone number
* A customer’s clients and business associates in that country dial the “host number” at local or in-country rates.
* The call is then forwarded anywhere in the world using VoIP technology and bypasses international long distance rates.

The second TalkFree tool being added is a completely new and improved “Call Shop Management” software solution. This tool provides call shops with the flexibility to establish rates and margins separate from the wholesale VoIP rate charge. In addition the program delivers to the call shop real-time visual tracking of every call in progress and, at the same time, allows customers to view displays monitoring their actual communication time. An additional but significant feature of the program is the option to bill for calls less than 40 seconds in duration. “Call Shop Management” also offers one other ultimate convenience for the call shop and for the caller: the receipt. Each receipt is printed immediately and displays only the call shop’s independently set rate in the local currency.
Press release also mentions that VoIP TalkFree is focused entirely on the Emerging World and promotes social entrepreneurship through the creation of small telecommunication businesses. The company is one of the top international VoIP reseller enablers, and is composed of a diverse team of people with a profound knowledge of the countries they serve.

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