AT&T picks People Telecom for PoP hosting and voice services

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:58

Business IT - Networking

People Telecom has won a contract to provide co-location services and domestic voice telecom services to AT&T.

Under the agreement, AT&T has relocated its global network node in Perth to People Telecom's Internet data centre for five years, with a further five year option. People Telecom will also provide domestic voice services to AT&T for three years.

Jeyan Jeevaratnam, managing director of AT&T Australia and New Zealand, said the company expected to make savings of around 50 percent on its domestic calling costs. "Furthermore, we have also reduced the costs associated with our Perth PoP, which will give us the opportunity to target businesses in Western Australia."

People Telecom operates a 600 square metres data centre with cooling and power redundancy and plans to extend this facility by 40 percent in 2006.