Posted on 14. Jun, 2005 by NetworkIP in Press Release
Billerica, Mass., June 14, 2005 – WebDialogs, Inc., a leading provider of online meeting and communication solutions, and NetworkIP, a leader in stored value solutions, today announced that they have partnered to bring the first rechargeable prepaid voice and web conferencing service to market.
“NetworkIP is a leader in prepaid services and has tremendous experience in, and understanding of, the market for prepaid conferencing services,” said Bala Sridhar, executive vice president of corporate development and co-founder of WebDialogs. “We are excited to be working with NetworkIP to make our Meeting Central service even more accessible to individual users and small businesses through a rechargeable prepaid model.”
The forthcoming WebDialogs Meeting Central Express is a prepaid, self-service integrated web and voice conferencing solution that delivers all of the features needed for a successful online meeting. Featuring a credit card auto-renewal process, it is a cost-effective service for independent users seeking an everyday conferencing solution.
“WebDialogs brings a compelling vision of integrated voice and web conferencing to small- and medium-sized businesses,” says Pete Pattullo, CEO and President of NetworkIP. “WebDialogs Meeting Central Express extends the benefits of converged conferencing to individuals and smaller businesses that previously have been overwhelmed by the cost and technology requirements of other providers’ offerings.”
WebDialogs Meeting Central solutions that are currently available include:
WebDialogs Executive
WebDialogs Executive is an integrated web and voice conferencing service with all the features and functionality necessary for a successful online meeting such as: presentation, document and application sharing, polling, chat, audio dial out, record and archive.
WebDialogs Enterprise
For enterprises that are satisfied with their current voice conferencing service provider and want to either add a new web conferencing solution or replace an existing one, WebDialogs Meeting Central offers WebDialogs Enterprise. This solution has all of the web conferencing features of WebDialogs Executive to complement an organization’s existing voice conferencing solution, and is available in a variety of pricing plans, including per minute, per seat or by subscription.
About NetworkIP
NetworkIP is changing the way businesses and people grow and enhance their connections. Since 1998, the company has innovated best-in-class stored value technologies, systems and integrated services that ensure reliability, minimize complexity and increase profitability. A privately-held company and a leader in stored value solutions, NetworkIP sets industry standards for quality, integrity and functionality. For more information on how to enhance your valued connections, please visit www.NetworkIP.net.
About WebDialogs
WebDialogs, Inc., based in Billerica, Mass., is a leading provider of online meeting and communication solutions, which increase the productivity, effectiveness and quality of online interactions. WebDialogs delivers its practical and affordable web conferencing and communication solutions to enterprises, service providers, application vendors and communication equipment providers. Effective, easy-to-use and quick to implement, WebDialogs solutions enable low-cost, high-value interactions online in an instant. For more information, visit www.webdialogs.com.
WebDialogs Meeting Central is a trademark of WebDialogs, Inc. All other names and trademarks referenced herein are the properties of their respective owners.
WebDialogs Contacts:
Michael Goff or Marcia Goff
Goff Communications
michael@goffpr.com/marcia@goffpr.com
508-416-3766
Posted on 07. Jun, 2005 by NetworkIP in Press Release
DALLAS (June 7) — NetworkIP, a leader in stored value solutions, today announced the availability of Arbinet Enabled access and benefits for NetworkIP prepaid customers. Arbinet is the leading electronic market for trading, routing and settling communications capacity.
This Arbinet Enabled service gives NetworkIP prepaid customers access to market pricing from 375 carriers connected to Arbinet and new tools for choosing the right combination of price and quality for their prepaid products. NetworkIP customers are able to reduce their cost of service, improve route quality and expand revenues by reaching new markets – without extensive network build out.
“Our agreement with Arbinet underscores our commitment to deliver the most competitive and flexible virtual services platform in the industry for companies interested in exploring a service bureau solution,” said NetworkIP President Pete Pattullo. “Prepaid providers who transfer their switching and billing to NetworkIP will no longer need to negotiate rates with hundreds of carriers around the world, interconnect them with their platform or switch, and manage routing and rate negotiations.”
NetworkIP customers can now receive these Arbinet Enabled benefits:
Select Sellers Based on Price and Quality: Participating customers are given direct control over the quality and rates they need for their products. The hard card customer can prioritize lowest possible price. Web marketers can prioritize high quality, with rates as a secondary priority.
Access to 375 Carriers: NetworkIP’s Arbinet Enabled access provides customers access to pricing from 375 carriers around the world who are connected to Arbinet’s Exchange Delivery Points in Los Angeles, New York, London, Frankfurt, and Hong Kong. Arbinet EnabledSM access features the most up-to-date rates, based on supply and demand.
Transparent, Real Time Pricing: NetworkIP customers can now benefit from Arbinet Enabled market information and pricing, enabling customers to drive more revenue from their prepaid products.
NetworkIP was the first in the industry to develop a web-based virtual platform. The company’s usage-based model enables prepaid service providers to focus on the management and control of their own products without incurring the cost and distraction of managing their own switch, software and carriers. NetworkIP’s Integrated Connections Solution (ICS) technology – a flexible, virtual services network featuring real-time, Web-based tools – enables billions of customer connections each year. NetworkIP’s category-leading prepaid products offer companies new ways to connect with their customers and drive revenue.
Arbinet Enabled access gives NetworkIP customers the ability to buy from the world’s leading electronic market for trading, routing and settling communications capacity. They are able to route based on quality and price using Arbinet’s centralized, efficient and liquid marketplace. Arbinet operates a carrier neutral voice transaction and settlement service, processing approximately 1 billion minutes of fixed and mobile traffic for 375 carrier Members monthly.
For more information visit www.networkip.net and www.arbinet.com.
Posted on 04. Apr, 2005 by NetworkIP in Press Release
DALLAS (April 4) – NetworkIP, a leader in stored value solutions, has added collaborative Web Conferencing to its prepaid conferencing service. The new service, which combines voice mail, toll free access, long distance service, dialing attendees and reservation-less conferencing from a single user account, represents the premiere wholesale conferencing offering in the prepaid marketplace.
NetworkIP’s Conferencing product is a comprehensive, privately-labeled turnkey solution for prepaid distributors, enabling them to brand their own conferencing product and generate revenue from the booming small and medium sized business marketplace. With no equipment or software to purchase, the service requires no capital investment and the offering is ready to generate revenue on day one.
“With soaring growth in the small and mid-sized business sectors, prepaid distributors can now diversify their business, deliver a robust conferencing product and establish new, long term customers,” says Pete Pattullo, CEO and President of NetworkIP. “Our prepaid conferencing service further demonstrates NetworkIP’s commitment to distributors by providing them with leading edge, revenue generating prepaid products and services.”
The new Web Conferencing service includes such features as application/desktop sharing, document publishing, ability to send files to attendees, polling, chat and remote desktop control. All of the existing features of the prepaid audio conferencing solution are fully integrated with the new Web solution.
NetworkIP’s Prepaid Conferencing product is available only through prepaid wholesalers, resellers, and distributors.
For more information and a product demonstration, visit www.NetworkIP.net.
About NetworkIP
NetworkIP is changing the way businesses and people grow and enhance their connections. Since 1998, the company has innovated best-in-class stored value technologies, systems and integrated services that ensure reliability, minimize complexity and increase profitability. A privately-held company and a leader in stored value solutions, NetworkIP sets industry standards for quality, integrity and functionality. For more information on how to enhance your valued connections, please visit www.NetworkIP.net.
Posted on 30. Mar, 2005 by NetworkIP in Press Release
DALLAS (March 30) — NetworkIP, a leader in stored value solutions, has received approval from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a patent on iQ TechnologyT (iQT), an exclusive suite of tools that measure call quality and termination. NetworkIP has patented both the algorithms and software to model end-user perception of voice quality in a telecommunications network.
iQT monitors and analyzes, in real time, the end-user experience, identifying and pinpointing when callers experience fast-busy signals, dead air, poor audio quality and cut offs. IQ Technology is agnostic to the underlying technologies – VoIP, TDM, etc. – used by carriers connecting the calls. Instead, it focuses on the end-user experience regardless of how the call is connected.
Traditional telecom measures of voice quality, such as ASR (answer-supervision ratio), ACD (average call duration), and PDD (post-dial delay) fail to detect negative voice quality under certain conditions, precisely because these traditional measures fail to model what actual end-users (the people who actually pick up the phone to make telephone calls) experience during a call. NetworkIP’s iQ Technology uses a set of algorithms to monitor and analyze end-user call attempts in real time and automatically removes carrier routes that do not meet minimum quality.
“In this chaotic and cost cutting telecom industry, NetworkIP’s iQT technology allows us to quantify and ensure a more successful end-user experience,” said Pete Pattullo, NetworkIP CEO and President. “Since 1998 we have set the industry standard for reliability, functionality and ingenuity by offering best quality service, robust network capacity, and patented customer management tools. iQT underscores our commitment to deliver the best connections for our valued distributors of prepaid and stored value products and services.”
For prepaid distributors and their customers, the results are higher percentages of successful calls, better call quality and fewer trouble tickets.
NetworkIP is also the only service bureau where customers can review daily, weekly and monthly iQT scores on a country-by-country basis before they commit to printing and distributing prepaid cards targeted to those destinations.
“If you don’t know your iQT score on a country-by-country basis, you’re operating blindly as a prepaid products and services distributor and missing a key asset in your portfolio. As a NetworkIP customer, you have full access to iQT and you are assured of running your business through the most responsive and the most innovative voice quality management system in the industry,” added Pattullo.
About NetworkIP
NetworkIP is changing the way businesses and people grow and enhance their connections. Since 1998, the company has innovated patented and best-in-class stored value technologies, systems and integrated services that ensure reliability, minimize complexity and increase profitability. A privately held company and a leader in stored value solutions, NetworkIP sets industry standards for quality, integrity and functionality. For more information on how to enhance your valued connections, please visit: www.NetworkIP.net.
Posted on 04. Mar, 2005 by NetworkIP in Press Release
DALLAS (March 4) — NetworkIP, a leader in stored value solutions, has launched version 2.0 of iQ Technology (iQT), an exclusive suite of patent-pending measurement tools that deliver unsurpassed call quality and termination.
NetworkIP’s iQ Technology uses a set of algorithms to monitor and analyze end-user call attempts in real time and automatically remove carrier routes that do not meet minimum quality. For prepaid distributors the results are higher percentages of successful calls, better call quality and fewer trouble tickets. NetworkIP is the only company providing this level of Quality Assurance.
“At NetworkIP, it’s all about ensuring the best connections for our valued customers; that’s why we are constantly evolving and improving our iQ Technology tools,” said Pete Pattullo, NetworkIP CEO and President. “We challenge competitors to match our country-by-country call quality and termination iQT scores.”
NetworkIP is the only service bureau where customers can review daily, weekly and monthly iQT scores on a country-by-country basis before they commit to printing and distributing prepaid cards targeted to those destinations.
iQT compensates for the unreliability of traditional call measurement systems – Answer Supervision Ratio (ASR), Average Call Duration (ACD) and Post Dial Delay (PDD) – that can be tricked by certain routing systems like VoIP and gray routes.
“iQ Technology underscores NetworkIP’s commitment to deliver the highest quality, most competitive and flexible virtual services platform in the industry for companies interested in exploring a service bureau solution,” added Pattullo.
NetworkIP will demonstrate iQ Technology at Booth 325 during the Intele-CardExpo, which will take place from March 22 to 24 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
About NetworkIP
NetworkIP is changing the way businesses and people grow and enhance their connections. Since 1998, the company has innovated best-in-class stored value technologies, systems and integrated services that ensure reliability, minimize complexity and increase profitability. A privately held company and a leader in stored value solutions, NetworkIP sets industry standards for quality, integrity and functionality. For more information on how to enhance your valued connections, please visit: www.NetworkIP.net.
Posted on 12. Jan, 2005 by NetworkIP in Press Release
MIAMI, FL (January 12, 2005) The Prepaid Press is publishing an investigative report in its January 15, 2005 issue alleging that AT&T has monopolized prepaid calling services in Iraq, generating at least $48 million a year.
Senior editor Gene Retske reports that AT&T established payphones in Iraq are blocking access to other carriers, selling its services for prices that are three to four times those charged by competitors.
The report says that AT&T would not be permitted to monopolize access on its payphones under US laws. US payphone operators can charge alternate carriers a fee for the use of their payphones, but cannot block them.
“AT&T is doing something in Iraq that would be banned in any shopping mall, airport or street corner here in the States,” said Retske.
NetworkIP, a Dallas-based leader in stored value solutions, developed the CallMe Card, a prepaid toll-free service, to enable connections between service personnel in Iraq and their families, and then donated 10,000 cards to service personnel and their families to make it easier for them to maintain connections with their loved ones. AT&T blocked the use of the CallMe Card by service personnel.
Pete Pattullo, Network IP CEO and president, added, “It is unfortunate that restrictions from AT&T are resulting in more hardships for our troops. Companies should do all they can to enable communications — not restrict them.”
Retske added that he hopes that by exposing this, some action may be taken to offer GI’s a more economical alternative for staying touch with family back home.
About The Prepaid Press
The Prepaid Press is the most current source of news and information about the prepaid communications industry – an industry that has reached nearly $10 billion in revenue in less than a decade. Visit The Prepaid Press online at www.prepaid-press.com.
Contact:
Gene Retske, Senior Editor
The Prepaid Press
866.203.2334 ext. 502
gretske@prepaid-press.com
Posted on 30. Dec, 2004 by NetworkIP in Press Release
Unique, prepaid telecommunications service provides friends and loved ones back home with a personal toll-free number for soldiers to use while overseas
DALLAS (December 30, 2004) – NetworkIP, a leading provider of communications technology, today announced that it will donate its CallMe Card telecommunications services in support of the largest Texas Army National Guard deployment since World War II. The company will donate 1,000 toll-free numbers in the form of $5 CallMe Cards to soldiers honored at a deployment event to be held Saturday, January 1, 2005, at 2 p.m. CST in conjunction with Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
NetworkIP’s CallMe Card provides users with a personal, toll-free 800 number to give out to family and friends at rates far below those associated with traditional toll-free services. This new service enables consumers to have calls forwarded to any designated number, including their home, cell or office phone. Users can redirect and recharge the number at any time via phone or online customer service.
“NetworkIP is pleased to join Operation Phone Card toward the goal of helping keep our soldiers connected while deployed,” said Pete Pattullo, president and CEO of NetworkIP. “We continue to hear how cost prohibitive it can be for our soldiers to keep in touch with loved ones back home while deployed. The CallMe card is ideal for soldiers stationed overseas because it allows them to contact their loved ones without the worry of exceeding minutes or incurring the high rates associated with other alternatives. We know how important it is for soldiers to maintain contact with home.”
In January 2005, the Texas Army National Guard 56th Brigade Combat Team will be sent to Iraq in the largest overseas deployment of the Texas National Guard since World War II. Approximately 3,300 soldiers are being deployed to support the United States’ ongoing efforts in the region.
Each CallMe Card donated by NetworkIP provides up to one hour of air time for soldiers overseas calling their family and friends. Users can designate where the call will be received to ensure they will be available for the call.
For more information about NetworkIP’s CallMe Card, please visit: www.thecallmecard.com.
About NetworkIP
Founded in 1997, NetworkIP (www.networkip.net) is a proven industry leader in stored value and the development of advanced communications services. With revenues over $100 million annually, NetworkIP currently supports over 400 million end-user accounts. The company provides technology and services to the major telecom companies worldwide. Utilizing the latest in technology from Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard, NetworkIP is a leading provider of communications solutions. More information about NetworkIP can be found on the Internet at www.networkip.net.
Posted on 15. Sep, 2004 by NetworkIP in Press Release
Unique, new product provides friends and loved ones back home with a personal toll-free number for soldiers to use overseas.
DALLAS (September 15, 2004) – NetworkIP, a leading provider of communications technology, today launched The CallMe Card on the Tony Danza Show. The company donated 10,000, toll-free numbers in the form of $5 CallMe Cards to Cell Phones for Soldiers, a program that enables soldiers stationed overseas to communicate with loved ones back home.
NetworkIP’s CallMe Card provides users with a personal, toll-free 800 number to give out to family and friends at rates far below those associated with traditional toll-free services. This new service enables consumers to have calls forwarded to any designated number, including their home, cell or office phone. Users can redirect and recharge the number at any time via phone or online customer service.
“NetworkIP is pleased to join such a worthwhile cause with our CallMe Card offering,” said Pete Pattullo, president and CEO of NetworkIP. “The card is ideal for our soldiers stationed overseas because it allows them to contact their loved ones without the worry of exceeding minutes or incurring the high rates associated with other alternatives. We know how important it is for soldiers’ morale to maintain contact with loved ones on a regular basis.”
The Cell Phones for Soldiers program was started by thirteen-year old Brittany Bergquist and her twelve year-old brother Robbie of Norwell, Massachusetts, after they learned about a local soldier who ran up a massive cell phone bill calling home from Iraq. As a sign of support, they immediately pooled their money together and opened a savings account at South Shore Bank to aid the soldier. The bank then donated $500 towards their efforts.
The Bergquist’s hope is to provide as many soldiers as possible with much needed communication vehicles, including prepaid calling cards and cell phone service. The organization has already distributed calling cards to soldiers in Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan and other bases around the world.
Each CallMe Card donated by NetworkIP provides up to one hour of calling time for soldiers overseas calling their family and friends. Users can designate where the call will be received to ensure they will be available for the call.
For more information about NetworkIP’s CallMe Card, please visit: www.thecallmecard.com.
About NetworkIP
Founded in 1997, NetworkIP (www.networkip.net) is a proven industry leader in stored value and the development of advanced communications services. With revenues over $100 million annually, NetworkIP currently supports over 400 million end-user accounts. The company provides technology and services to the major telecom companies worldwide. Utilizing the latest in technology from Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, AT&T, and Hewlett-Packard, NetworkIP is a leading provider of communications solutions. More information about NetworkIP can be found on the Internet at www.networkip.net.
Posted on 09. Sep, 2004 by NetworkIP in Press Release
Strategic relationship will offer prepaid services resellers a complete online solution.
DALLAS (September 9, 2004) – NetworkIP, a leading telecommunications services provider, and Managed Prepaid, a leading e-commerce software provider geared for the prepaid calling card market, today announced a strategic relationship to address the growing demand for integrated e-commerce solutions for prepaid providers.
As part of the agreement, Managed Prepaid will offer its manageIT eCommerce website application to all of NetworkIP’s customers seeking an automated, comprehensive and proven system for companies that are serious about doing business online.
The new solution fully integrates manageIT eCommerce, a full-featured e-commerce storefront package, with the NetworkIP voice and data services platform. Managed Prepaid will prepare the online store and handle the setup process allowing the distributor to focus on other business initiatives. The manageIT eCommerce system is flexible and allows companies to customize the system and take advantage of core business capabilities and differentiate their business from those of their competitors.
“Together with NetworkIP, Managed Prepaid can take our products to broader markets and drive the adoption of our technology. NetworkIP is known for leadership in the prepaid telecom services industry, and we have great expectations for this partnership to have a significant effect on our company’s growth,” said Silas Peterson, Founder and Director of Managed Prepaid. “Not only are the complementary technologies a great fit, but both companies are committed to combining our solutions in innovative ways for the benefit of our customers.”
“The NetworkIP team and our customers are excited about our new offering that includes Managed Prepaid software solutions,” said Pete Pattullo, NetworkIP President and CEO. “Today’s prepaid market demands end-to-end integrated solutions that allow our customers to establish, maintain and grow their businesses online, and Managed Prepaid’s software application was a logical match for NetworkIP’s platform.”
The combination of these two powerful technologies allows a prepaid card distributor access to a strong and robust online presence. Customers can securely manage and maintain their manageIT eCommerce website with no additional programming skills. Advanced features available through the integrated application include Real-Time PIN Recharge, Auto-Recharge, Pin-less Dialing, CDR’s and more.
Managed Prepaid will be demonstrating the manageIT eCommerce solution in NetworkIP’s booth #200 at the upcoming InteleCard Expo, September 22-23, 2004, in Las Vegas.
About Managed Prepaid
Managed Prepaid is a business consulting and technology services firm dedicated
to providing high value e-business products, e-marketing, and support services to companies operating inside the global prepaid and stored value markets. A business unit of parent company Blutique®, Managed Prepaid has developed a wide array of e-commerce and customer self-service applications which are fully integrated with the leading prepaid platforms. Via the company’s in-depth understanding of the industry and the flexibility of the applications, Managed Prepaid clients can easily interface with multiple prepaid debit platforms, CRM’s, and other external applications.
Posted on 19. May, 2003 by NetworkIP in Press Release
DALLAS – May 19, 2003 – In an effort to help U.S. troops, NetworkIP, an industry leading application and access provider of converged voice and data services, has donated 1,000 phone cards to Operation Uplink. Operation Uplink is a program initiated by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and its Ladies Auxiliary to provide free phone cards to all uniformed U.S. troops and hospitalized veterans stationed here or abroad. The program is made possible through the generous donations from VFW members, as well as concerned corporate citizens like NetworkIP. Over the past six years, Operation Uplink has distributed more than two million phone cards to veterans and active duty military personnel.
“NetworkIP and its employees are honored to have the opportunity to help our servicemen and women stay connected to family and friends. I am very proud that we can support our troops,” says Pete Pattullo, NetworkIP President and CEO.
Each phone card donated by NetworkIP has a value of 400 domestic long distance minutes and may be used to call internationally. In addition, the cards are activated for three of NetworkIP’s unique prepaid services: traditional prepaid phone calls, prepaid conference calling, and prepaid dial-up Internet service. Prepaid conferencing will be of special interest, as this service enables multiple family members or friends to talk on one single call together, up to 28 participants! Access to the conference-calling feature for all participants is as simple as dialing a toll-free access number and entering a 7-digit conference code (provided on the card).
“This gift of calling home couldn’t have come at a better time,” said VFW Commander-in-Chief, Raymond Sisk. “Thousands of our servicemen and women are suffering the effects of separation in Iraq and other areas around the world. NetworkIP’s generosity will go a long way toward easing that hardship by helping them stay in contact with family and friends.”
NetworkIP is a member of the International Prepaid Communications Association, a trade group based in Washington, D.C., that has endorsed Operation Uplink and urged its membership to support it. IPCA Executive Director Howard Segermark said, “NetworkIP’s contribution is a great example for the industry and we’re hoping that many more phonecard issuers will follow suit.”
About NetworkIP
NetworkIP is an industry leading wholesale application and access provider of converged platform services. The company serves voice and data product distributors, resellers, CLECs, LECs, ISPs, IXCs, CAPs, and wireless, cable and utility providers. The company has created the first large scale e.Communications network, bringing together the best-in-class switching, computing hardware, data storage, IP networking, and software development methodology, via a Web-based interface. NetworkIP customers are able run run their entire business on NetworkIP’s platform – from facilities to billing to back office – just as if they owned their own switch, with no capital or back office investment. More information about NetworkIP can be found on the Internet at www.networkip.net.
About the Veterans of Foreign Wars
The VFW and its Ladies Auxiliary is a 2.6 million-member veterans service organization, now in its 104th year, with a nationwide network of some 9,500 Posts and service officers working to build better communities and assist all veterans, their dependents, as well as active duty military personnel.