Dialpad.com To Use ITXC webtalkNOW! Service
PRINCETON, N.J. and SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE) --Feb. 8, 2000--ITXC Corp© (NASDAQ:ITXC - news) and Dialpad.com, Inc. today announced that Dialpad.com has signed a contract to use ITXC webtalkNOW!(SM) Service to complete a portion of its web-to-phone calls via ITXC.net(TM), ITXC's global Internet telephony infrastructure which provides consistently high quality for real-time voice over the Internet.
Dialpad.com is the nation's leading free calling service on the Internet with over 3 million registered members. It has transmitted over 200,000,000 minutes in the 3 months prior to its relationship with ITXC. ITXC is the service providers' service provider for Internet telephony and operates ITXC.net.
ITXC webtalkNOW! Service is ITXC's new wholesale service which provides a turnkey Internet call completion service to portals, web communications companies and ISPs. ITXC controls the quality of calls on ITXC.net by using its patent pending BestValue Routing(TM) technology and procedures. The quality of Internet calls on ITXC.net has been verified by many major carriers who use it as a route choice for their customers' phone-to-phone calls interchangeable with traditional telephony.
Dialpad allows its users a very simple way to communicate to any phone number in the United States. The only requirement to use the service is a multimedia PC with sound card, microphone or headset and Web access. In a matter of minutes, after registration and an automatic download of Dialpad.com's Java applet, users can be making free phone calls - talking as long as they want.
Tom Evslin, Chairman and CEO of ITXC, said ``Dialpad.com has proven the popularity of free calling on the Internet. ITXC has proven that the quality which phone users expect can be delivered over the public Internet. We look forward to serving this innovative new service provider with the same quality we have been providing to traditional carriers.'
``We have been experiencing explosive growth since we went live. After careful evaluation, we selected ITXC as our second network partner because of their quality reputation,' said Dr. Hyunduk Ahn, CEO of Dialpad.com. ``We're signing up a new member nearly every second, and look forward to leveraging the ITXC global network, further enhancing our first mover advantage in this space.'
About Dialpad.com, Inc.:
Dialpad.com, Inc. is a privately held Silicon Valley Internet company based in Santa Clara, CA. The company has developed the nation's leading free calling service on the Internet using advanced, patent-pending Voice over IP (VoIP) technology. With the revenue dial.com receives from sponsorships, targeted advertising, and licensing fees, Dialpad.com is able to offer users convenient and free calling to any phone number in the United States. The company has signed up over 3 million members since October, 1999. For more information, visit www.dialpad.com. |
