TLTG a good play today? <gg>OzEmail Interline Announces a New Affiliate and Refile Agreements
November 6, 1998
SYDNEY, Nov. 5 OzEmail Interline PTY Ltd, a
subsidiary of OzEmail Limited (Nasdaq:
OZEMY) today announced that it has signed
a new affiliate and new refile partners for its
Internet telephony network.
The new Interline affiliate is Teltran (OTC
Bulletin Board: TLTG), which also signed a
multi-year refile agreement with Interline.
This increases the total number of worldwide
Interline affiliates to 15. Interline also
announced that it has established a new
refile hub in Los Angeles, California with two
new refile providers, Pacific Gateway
Exchange Inc. (Nasdaq: PGEX) and Telecom
New Zealand (TNZ).
"Adding new affiliates and refile hubs are
important steps to building out our global
Internet telephony infrastructure," stated
J.B. Rousselot, Interline's Chief Executive
Officer. "Additional affiliates and refile hubs
guarantee the best value and level of service
to our rapidly growing customer base."
Interline is an international consortium of
Internet telephony service providers. Built on
technology developed by OzEmail and
licensed by a partnership of OzEmail and
Ideata, the Interline voice-over-IP ("VoIP ")
solution provides a robust, secure Internet
telephone routing network with a central
billing and settlement system. By removing
the key obstacles to delivering VoIP services
-- technology investment, voice quality,
international termination agreements, billing
and settlement disputes -- Interline makes it
easy for ISPs and others to begin delivering
international VoIP services.
Telephone calls on the Interline network will
originate from Interline's affiliates around the
world, which currently include companies in
the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong, South Africa,
Australia, New Zealand, Canada,
Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom, South
Korea, Indonesia, France.
About OzEmail Interline
OzEmail's Internet telephony business --
Interline -- is a partnership between OzEmail
Ltd (88%) and Ideata PTY Ltd (12%), an
Australian manufacturer of
telecommunications equipment. Interline has
developed and is operating technology that
allows the placement, routing and billing of
high quality voice services over the internet,
using existing tone dial phones. Users need
no special equipment, allowing individuals and
corporations to place calls from their own IP
infrastructures or telephones providing
significant cost savings on long distance and
international telephony.
About OzEmail Limited
OzEmail is the leading provider of
comprehensive Internet services in Australia.
The Company's Internet services are
designed to meet the different needs of its
residential and enterprise customers ranging
from low cost dial up to high performance,
continuous access services integrating the
Company's ISDN offering and consulting
expertise.
SOURCE OzEmail Limited |
