Global One and New World Telephone Team Up to Deliver Global Frame Relay Service in Hong Kong
HONG KONG, December 16, 1998 - Global One, the international joint venture of Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, and Sprint, and New World Telephone Limited (NWT) today announced an Interconnect Carrier Agreement to provide Global Frame Relay service to corporate customers in Hong Kong.
"Businesses and multinational corporations in Hong Kong will greatly benefit from the introduction of our Global Frame Relay service, which connects them to their business partners, regional offices or subsidiaries in over 54 countries worldwide," said Pedro Ching, Chief Executive of NWT.
"The launch of Global Frame Relay service demonstrates our commitment to providing business customers with a combination of state-of-the-art technology and competitive pricing. In addition, as Hong Kong prepares for the opening up of external services market on January 1, 1999, NWT is proud to play a leading role in the introduction of advanced global multimedia services into the territory," he added.
"Global One is delighted to team up with NWT in providing Hong Kong with increased access to one of the most advanced international Frame Relay services on the market," said Jacques Grézaud, Global One Managing Director for Greater China. "The Global Frame Relay offering enhances our existing cooperation with NWT which includes a joint program in international voice services. We look to NWT's local expertise and resources to help leverage Global One market penetration and better serve customers in the territory."
Global Frame Relay is a managed network service which supports integrated media transmission including digitized voice, fax, data and video in a single line dealing for multi-location corporate networking environment, such as LAN-to-LAN inter-networking and multi-drop leased line applications. In offering Global Frame Relay, NWT provides customers with high network resilience and assurance of uninterrupted transmission. In addition, NWT has designated a team of technical experts to proactively monitor the local network performance on a 24-hour basis in order to provide top quality service at all times.
With over 350 switches in a unified Frame Relay service network, Global Frame Relay covers more cities around the world with a common technology than any other similar service in the market today. Large national and international businesses worldwide have increasingly come to rely on Global Frame Relay as a cost-effective alternative to private lines, combining high bandwidth capacity and an ability to handle effectively burst-on-demand transmissions. Global Frame Relay provides customers with a wide range of Committed Information Rates, and port access speeds from 56/64 Kbps to 2 Mbps. Speeds up to 45 Mbps are planned for 1999 delivery.
The expansion of Global Frame Relay across the world's farthest-reaching Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)-based network is progressing around the world and will cover more than 200 cities in 46 countries by the end of 1998.
NWT is a subsidiary of New World Telephone Group, which is owned jointly by New World Group and INFA Telecom. Fusing New World Group's powerful corporate resources with INFA's marketing and technical excellence, New World Telephone Group uniquely provides Power-of-One, the comprehensive benefits and convenience offered to both personal and corporate customers through a total integration of fixed network, mobile, paging and multimedia payphone services.
Global One, the worldwide joint venture of Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, and Sprint, offers a single source for the solution of voice and data needs of businesses, carriers, and consumers around the world. Global One has over 1,400 points of presence in more than 65 countries and had 1997 revenues of over $US1.1 billion.
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