VIP Communications launch direct line Ghana-UK

VIP communication works closely with Ghana's trusted telecom services to ensure that their subscribers least affected new regulations taxation of inbound calls to Ghana. From 3 August 2013, the United Kingdom will join a growing list of countries covered by the direct line Ghana VIP service.

The Parliament of Ghana recently the tax assessment Communications Service, which is designed for lifting a tax on providers for all interconnected communication traffic, including phone calls, text messages, as well as email. This tax (also called the "talk tax") is expected to make a baseline increase in call rates on all providers, which this tax burden will eventually shift to Ghanaians living abroad and calling home.

Direct line Ghana can VIP subscribers have their own local Ghana telephone number that international phone calls to any phone us, CA, or UK for less than half the price. This service is exempt from the tax "talk", and callers in Ghana will not pay for international rates to reach these unique numbers. In addition, Vodafone users in Ghana this numbers-free calls.

". .. legislators and players in the industry were sharply divided about the move and insisted the truncation of the process because consumers would be hit hard." Directly derived from the official release of the Parliament of Ghana

Graham Milne, CEO of VIP Communications notes: "as a first-generation immigrant myself, I know how important it is to regularly at home.  I don't mind paying a fair price for my calls, but as we know from our experience, is the case with Ghana the diaspora now pay more than 20 cents a minute in taxes and duties. "

Why direct line: Ghana?

·         Get your own local number of Ghana.

·         Free for your friends and family to use.

·         Call charges debited from your VIP account.

·         No calling cards, no downloads.

·         Live customer service.

VIP communications was founded in 1996. For 17 years has focused exclusively on VIP delivering the highest quality services for international communication. We share our expertise globally and experience daily with our customers bound them to the most reliable and unique services that deliver the highest value to their business. In a recent survey 96% of our customers were happy or very happy with the support we made available.

CONTACT FOR THE PRESS

Pete Legeros  

PeterL@JoinVIP.com

[US] + 1 703-708-1515 x 3027

* Pete Rogers-VP of VIP Communications is available for interviews from person to person, call in and recorded.

* Kwami Khalid-Director of the development of the UK for VIP communication will be in London from 3 August 2013 to 6 August 2013 and is available for interviews from person to person, call in and recorded.

Please contact the press contact Pete Legeros for more information and interview arrangements.

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Xtel communications is ready for E-rate funding year 2014 (FY2014)

Marlton/NJ – the universal service administration Corporation (USAC) http://www.usac.org/sl/(http://www.usac.org/sl/) now has an online submission for funding by 2014 (FY2014) for FCC form 470, a description of the required services and certification form. The first day is 1 July 2014 FY2014. USAC is an independent, not for profit corporations designed http://transition.fcc.gov/learnnet/the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as the universal service Fund (USF). USAC collects contributions from telecommunications operators and manages programs of aid intended to help communities across the country to secure access to affordable telecommunications services. USAC through management of these programmes, provides support for the high costs of companies in rural areas, the consumer is entitled, rural health care providers, schools, and libraries.

Schools and libraries (E-rate) program of the UNION makes available discount eligible schools and libraries for telecommunications services, Internet access, and internal connections. The Program is designed to ensure that schools and libraries have access to affordable telecommunications and information services. Percentage discounts are determined by the number of students in the district qualify for free and reduced price lunches (National School Lunch Program or NLSP). Library to use the number of students (total and NSLP-eligible) for the public school district in which the library is located.

"We have been a leading provider of services New Jersey E-rate funding year 2013, provides more than 8.5 million dollars in telecommunications and Internet services for most New Jersey schools districts," notes Liz Sorino, Xtel's Executive Vice President. "For many schools, E-course provides an opportunity for innovation technologies, which districts simply could not afford without this funding," he adds. "We've specialized in custom solutions for K-12 school since our inception in 1994. We know that school, we know E-course, and we are ready to help New Jersey school districts in the new year funding! "

About Xtel Communications, Inc.

Xtel communications, Inc. http://xtel.net/, regional facilities-based competitive local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) is now in the 19 years of its activities, providing voice, data, Internet and cloud communications services to businesses, schools and municipalities in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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Crosspeer Cloud Announces New Unified Communications Initiative

Crosspeer, the leader in Next Generation Open Cloud Computing, announced its new Cloud Communications IAAS initiative.  Crosspeer is not only changing the way companies purchase IT computing resources, it is also re-defining the way they communicate – truly empowering their workforces to become more agile, more flexible and more productive.  The vision for the new offering brings together the computing power and flexibility of the cloud with high performance, reliability and security required for communications networks.  Crosspeer sees this as the foundation for a new class of ‘Unified Communications Service’ offerings and part of the core for building a ‘Virtual Telco’ for SIP Communications.  

“Many of our development team members have designed VoIP communications systems even before the SIP protocol was ratified as a standard,” said Patrice Haftman, CTO of Crosspeer.    “We knew early on that that VoIP communications would eventually prevail, and that traditional Telco carrier networks would succumb to packet-based voice and data communications.  Clearly land lines and PBXs are dead, and advanced IP-based Unified Communications systems are taking their place.”

First generation VoIP implementations typically replaced land lines and legacy PBXs with on-premise communications servers that provided similar calling features.  They not only connected softphones and desktop phones, they virtually eliminated the concept of long-distance.  Today, converged IP communications is moving to the cloud where companies can take further advantage of even lower capital costs and overhead expenditures.  Advanced communications such as VoIP, Presence, Instant Messaging, Unified Messaging, Conferencing (audio, web & video) and social networking let users connect and exchange ideas more effectively than ever before.  

“The Crosspeer Infrastructure provides distinct advantages for cloud communications applications,” said Salvador Diaz-Verson, Crosspeer CEO.   “Not only can applications be scaled instantly to meet growing user demands, but the cloud decreases the time needed to provision and deploy new applications and services.  Crosspeer Cloud can also provide consistent, easy-to-access communications for users across multiple locations or geographic regions, and easily support mobile and remote workers – keeping them connected and productive.”

With the current economic conditions, companies are increasingly faced with the need to scale both up or down as quickly as possible.  With premises-based implementations, downsizing often results in unused communications capacity while scaling up can be costly and time consuming.  Cloud-based unified communications systems offer greater scalability and flexibility for the long term.  UC capabilities deployed in the cloud also eliminate the time, money and effort required to integrate disparate applications deployed on premises.

“Crosspeer Cloud also benefits system integrators,” noted Mike Dabney, Director of Business Development for Crosspeer.  VoIP value-added resellers, consultants and those looking to provide SAAS services can take advantage of the Crosspeer Open Cloud to install, configure and custom tune applications to meet specific system requirements on-demand.   Unbundled resources from Crosspeer keep computing costs low by not forcing users to buy pre-configured resource blocks where they may end up paying for more capacity than what is needed.   Being able to purchase the amount of CPU, memory and disk space independently provides significant cost advantages to both users and SAAS vendors.”  

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Habib Madani

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