Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
IP PBX developer, ShoreTel, has achieved what it says is the first SIP interoperability with Skype, enabling organisations using the ShoreTel IP PBX to have all their outgoing calls routed via Skype and to put a click-to-call logo on their web sites that will enable Skype users to call them, via Skype at no charge.
According to a joint Skype/ShoreTel press release, "The nearly 11,000 ShoreTel enterprise customers can now register to try Skype for SIP in beta , giving them the opportunity to save money, save time and stay ahead by integrating Skype into their communications portfolios."
The same functionality was made generally available to users of the open source Asterisk IP PBX software on 1 September. That functionality has been available in beta since September 2008 .
Stefan Oberg, VP and general manager of Skype for Business, said: "Skype for SIP is easy for businesses to configure and manage using Skype's Web-based business control panel (BCP), making it complementary to ShoreTel's UC system, which is renowned for its simplicity."
Skype for SIP allows ShoreTel's business customers and their employees to receive inbound calls through their ShoreTel SIP-enabled UC system from more than 400 million registered Skype users around the world at no cost to the Skype user. In addition, organisations using ShoreTel can reduce their costs further by directing outbound calls from devices connected to the ShoreTel UC system via Skype for SIP to landlines and mobile devices worldwide at low Skype rates.
Organisations that use ShoreTel with Skype for SIP can also purchase and associate online Skype numbers, currently available in more than 25 countries, with their ShoreTel UC system to receive inbound calls from landline and mobile phones.
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