Posted on 01. Sep, 2005 by NetworkIP in Media Coverage
Successful prepaid formula includes brand + distribution + platform.
Since the early 90s the prepaid industry has played host to scores of companies, competing cards and marketing strategies. Analysts forecast continued growth, but maintaining that growth is a key challenge for distributors, resellers and service providers.
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Written by: Pete Pattullo
Posted on 15. Aug, 2005 by NetworkIP in Media Coverage
Many phone card distributors make a mistake by overlooking the use of a service bureau for some of their phone card product offerings. Call it a service bureau, virtual switch, virtual platform, prepaid services partition, usage-based services or switch condo; it all means basically the same thing. Instead of investing your own capital on a switch/platform, you simply outsource this function to a company that allows you to rent space on their platform. This can give you the ability to control your product and how many minutes you’re quoting and delivering to your target destinations, build your own brand and increase your profit margins at the same time.
Posted on 01. Aug, 2005 by NetworkIP in Media Coverage
Hot on the heels of other stored-value services, such as longdistance, wireless and debit cards, Web and audio conferencing now are being offered on a prepaid basis and made available through similar channels as other stored-value products — the mass retailers. Prepaid conferencing allows service providers to avoid fighting to deliver the lowest-cost service to the country’s largest enterprises and instead tap into an underserved small business market, which VISA USA says will spend $4.7 trillion or one-third of all expenditures by U.S. businesses this year.
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Written by: Pete Pattullo
Posted on 15. Apr, 2005 by NetworkIP in Media Coverage
The prepaid calling card business is getting a sibling: prepaid conference calling. Aimed specifically at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with conference calling needs, the cards should infiltrate retail locations this year, according to a couple companies that are chasing the space hard.
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Written by: Jim Barthold
Posted on 15. Jan, 2005 by NetworkIP in Media Coverage
AT&T, once the only choice for long distance in the US, has once again become a national monopoly, but this time in Iraq. US military personnel serving in the war torn country find their choices for calling back home to the US very limited. The national telecommunications infrastructure in Iraq, after decades of neglect, wars and Coalition bombing, was almost non-existent when the US took over. AT&T was asked to provide service to military exchanges there. Continue reading…
Originally published at: http://www.prepaid-press.com/news_detail.php?t=paper&id=646
Written by: Gene Retske
Posted on 15. Feb, 2004 by NetworkIP in Media Coverage
NetworkIP was honored to be named a winner of Prepaid-Telecom.com’s 2004 “Fabulous 50 Club”.
Posted on 15. Nov, 2003 by NetworkIP in Media Coverage
Founded in 1998, NetworkIP, a facilities-based wholesale applications provider, achieved profitability within the first two months of existence.Their existing customer base includes over 70 access and service providers.The company currently supports over a quarter billion end-user accounts, generating a peak of two million transactions per day, with utilization of over half a billion minutes per month.
Posted on 03. Nov, 2003 by NetworkIP in Media Coverage
At WR, we’ve watched 800# meet-me conferencing come down in price to less than a dime per minute – for volume users. However, occasional users still pay upwards of $0.30 per minute per line, or $180 for a one-hour conference with 10 participants. This is where NetworkIP comes in. Although they may not be a household name, NetworkIP is the wholesale company behind many of the pre-paid calling cards (especially international) available at your local supermarket and convenience store. (In this sense they are similar to West, a calling card company that recently acquired InterCall and ConferenceCall.com.) Their annual revenue is roughly $150M, they connect more than 800,000 calls per day, and currently have more than 350 million (not a typo) PINs in service. Now they’ve turned their attention to pre-paid calling-card conferencing.
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Written by: Andrew W. Davis
Posted on 02. Nov, 2003 by NetworkIP in Media Coverage
Picture this – you’re at a Kinkos looking for cheap notepads, a deal on a low-cost laptop computer, and maybe a low-cost speakerphone. On the same aisle is a box that says, “Pre-paid conference calls, $.05-#.10 a minute toll-free!” Now tell me, wouldn’t you look at the box?
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Written by: Scott Walters
Posted on 23. Sep, 2002 by NetworkIP in Media Coverage
TPP: Network IP has been in the industry for longer than most and has never changed the name of the company. How did Network IP remain stable, reputable and profitable despite the past and current trends in the prepaidtelecom environment?
PP: Let me start by correcting your first statement above. From inception back in early 1998, our legal name is and remains “Network Enhanced Telecom, LLP”we chose “NetworkIP as our brand and “d.b.a.”back in 1999. As far as our stability, reputation and profitability, NetworkIP was founded on the basis of a classic entrepreneur business model, not the dot.com “Revenue at any cost”models we’ve all seen go bust! We implemented a business model that focuses on minimizing risk, real-time management of customers & suppliers and enabling our customers and oh yeah… making money.