Telstra USA to offer global IP based business services

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:36

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Telstra's US subsidiary, Telstra Inc, has partnered with CommPartners - a US provider of IP services for SMEs - to offer VoIP, hosted IP telephony and other applications around the globe.

CommPartners is a US competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) that provides wholesale VoIP and enhanced IP applications to carriers, strategic partners and value added resellers. These include the Linksys One IP telephony service for small business, IP PBX, IP trunking, hosted call centre and other IP-based applications for the SMB/E market is the US.

Under their new partnership, Telstra Inc and CommPartners, intend to combine these applications and CommPartners' nationwide IP network coverage with Telstra's global voice and data network and global brand to "enable single, end-to-end, global solutions to be deployed seamlessly across [their] respective networks."

"Our complementary networks will enable single, end-to-end, global solutions to be deployed seamlessly across our respective networks," Andrew Morawski, president and CEO of Telstra Inc, said

"This agreement with Telstra Incorporated demonstrates the intrinsic value of the IP network, business applications, service delivery platforms and CLEC status that CommPartners has established over the last three and a half years," said Dave Clark, co-founder and CEO of CommPartners. "Our relationship with Telstra serves as a foundation for growth for both CommPartners and Telstra in the enterprise IP communications markets as we leverage our respective US and global network assets and capabilities and build distribution channels for our services."