Teltran Offers Voice Over Internet Service To US Telcos
December 2, 1998
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A.: While every
Internet service provider (ISP) and
telecommunications carrier worth its salt
seems to be offering Voice over IP (Internet
protocol) services, few ISPs and telcos care
to "reinvent the wheel" on the subject, so
they contract the service out to established
firms.
Now Teltran International, an affiliate of the
OzEmail Interline operation of Australia, is
planning to offer its VoIP services to US firms
and telecommunications carriers.
According to company officials, the Teltran
VoIP Service (TVS) will offer customers a
VoIP phone service to 10 countries
immediately, with more countries being added
during the first quarter of next year.
Unlike some of the competing companies in
this area, Teltran says that its service will
operate on a phone-to-phone basis, and will
use a private Internet network to route calls
from its gateways to gateways of other
affiliates around the world.
Using this approach, the firm says, avoids
the need for carriers to route IP calls over
the public Internet -- a move that costs
money and can result in call. TVS says it plans to offer
service to all countries worldwide using its
international long distance carrier network for
calls to countries not being routed over the
Internet.
For the US offering, Teltran and Interline
have signed multi-year agreements whereby
Teltran is an affiliate in Interline's worldwide
consortium of carriers and will also refile
traffic that does not get routed over its
Internet telephony network.
Other Interline affiliates, include Mitsubishi
in Japan, Hyundai in South
Korea, Concentric in the US, Magic Tel in
Hong Kong and New Zealand's Voyager.
Byron Lerner, Teltran's president, said that
the firm's VoIP service will continue the
Internet-based telephony strategy that the
company is pursuing. "We feel TVS, coupled
with our other telephony services, will lead
to a very profitable 1999," he said.
According to company officials, Teltran is
licensed by the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) as a global,
facilities-based common carrier.
Teltran's Web site is at
teltran.com . |
