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BandTel Provides Resellers with Additional Income and Educational Resources as It Launches New VAR Program.


The New Program is Designed to Allow Resellers Worldwide to Leverage BandTel's Success in the SIP Trunking See port aggregation.  VoIP Market and Increase Profitability

NEWPORT BEACH Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. , Calif. -- BandTel(TM), a leading worldwide provider of SIP Trunking services, today announced its new Value Added Reseller See VAR.

(company) value added reseller - (VAR, or "value added retailer") A company which sells something (e.g. computers) made by another company (an OEM) with extra components added (e.g. specialist software).
 (VAR) program for resellers worldwide. The program will provide BandTel's channel partners with the education, tools, support and recurring revenue necessary to increase sales and profitability.

"BandTel has been very successful in establishing itself as a SIP Trunking leader and has become known for providing a fail-safe, cost-effective network to leading gateway, IP PBX (Internet Protocol Private Branch eXchange) A telephone switch that supports voice over IP (VoIP). IP PBXs convert IP phone calls into traditional circuit-switched TDM connections for the PSTN. , and firewall manufacturers. We want our channel partners to experience the same level of success," stated Chris Dunk, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of BandTel. "Our objective is to continue to work closely with our partners to help them build business opportunities and increase sales and profitability."

BandTel's new commission-based VAR program provides flexibility and profitability with two options to choose from with each new customer agreement. The first option allows VARs to receive 15% of each customer's total usage cost on a monthly basis. The second option allows resellers to receive 10% of their customer's total usage cost on a monthly basis, plus a cash bonus equal to the customer's third month billing. Resellers can offer their customers one or two year BandTel service agreements.

BandTel will offer VARs a web-based education program, which will be part of the BandTel web site: www.SIPeducation.com. From that, VARs will have access to:

* Animated PowerPoint presentations for both VARs and their customers

* Information on SIP: attributes, terminology, response codes, and call examples

* Knowledge specific information for Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced VARs, which includes definitions, applications, trouble-shooting, white papers and diagrams

* Downloadable one-sheets on Termination, SIP Trunking Basics and Benefits, BandTel Differentiators and TotalView Online Accounting & Revenue Management

* Weekly educational webinars and monthly teleconferencing sessions with product and service engineers

* Regional seminars that complement OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and  training

* The BandTel process for quickly and easily signing up new customers

* Conference workshops and networking receptions at expos worldwide

* FAQs

Other program elements include access to BandTel's TotalView service - a web-based portal designed to give BandTel resellers access to their customers' call usage and payment history. It will also provide them with sales reporting information such as commission and revenue management tools.

BandTel has developed partnerships with leading gateway, IP PBX, firewall manufacturers, and bandwidth providers such as AudioCodes, Sphere, Quintum, Digium, Objectworld, Ingate, MDLsolutions, PingTel, VegaStream, and Earthlink's New Edge Networks. These partnerships allow VARs to offer BandTel's robust, fail-safe architecture with just about any enterprise-class VoIP device available on the market today for seamless, affordable integration into their customers' telecommunications environment.

"We are able to move more VoIP Solutions because BandTel works with the manufacturers to produce a very tight integration between BandTel and the VoIP Solution. This tight integration makes for quicker thus less expensive installations and better call quality. BandTel's sales representatives are very hands on during the sales process A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. , which makes for a much appreciated smooth deployment," said George Richardson George Richardson can refer to:
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, CEO of Computer Technology Distributing - a leading distributor of integrated VoIP products.

For more information on BandTel and its services, please visit the company's web site at www.bandtel.com.

About BandTel

BandTel is a leading worldwide provider of SIP Trunking services. The company is dedicated to ensuring its customers and partners alike have access to the most reliable, end-to-end VoIP service available on the market today. Its N-Plus(SM) architecture is designed to solve the throughput and redundancy problems on high-capacity SIP-based networks and eliminate any single point of failure. BandTel continues to develop strong partnerships with leading carriers and telecommunications companies See telecom company.  such as: Global Crossing, XO Communications XO Communications is a United States telecommunications firm and one of the largest Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) in the country. It is owned by XO Holdings, Inc OTCBB: XOHO. , Level 3, Qwest Communications
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, Verizon Business, and Primus. BandTel is headquartered in Newport Beach, California Newport Harbor redirects here. For the MTV reality series, see .

Newport Beach, incorporated in 1906, is a city in Orange County, California, 10 miles south of downtown Santa Ana.
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