CoolCall Named as One of "Ten To Watch" in 2001 by Intele-CardNews Magazine.Business Editors/High Tech Writers FAIRFIELD, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 2001 CoolCall.com has just been named as one of "Ten To Watch in 2001" in the January 2001 issue of Intele-CardNews. Intele-CardNews (www.intelecard.com) is the leading publication in the $4 billion+ prepaid pre·pay tr.v. pre·paid, pre·pay·ing, pre·pays To pay or pay for beforehand. pre·pay  ment n. market. CoolCall was selected based upon the following criteria:
product innovation, a solid business plan, ability to grow through
strategic alliances, healthy company growth from one year to the next
and emphasis on customer service.
CoolCall.com was selected for merging two of the hottest technologies in telecom, Internet protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. telephony Meaning "sound over distance," it refers to electronically transmitting the human voice. In the beginning, telephony dealt only with analog signals in the circuit-switched networks of the telephone companies. and unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. , onto a prepaid card platform. "The complete concept behind CoolCall is that we're really blending IP Telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. with unified messaging to create a product that you can access from any type of device, whether it's a PC, phone or a wireless device," CoolCall.com founder and 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. Burt Chojnowski said in the article. "A `CoolCall' allows anyone to make a low-cost, high-quality phone call, receive and send e-mail or faxes, surf the Web and buy anything anytime over our network. Most people use the Internet to send e-mail, and they usually are either sitting at a PC or carrying around a laptop--that's not really an efficient use of technology, and it's not very convenient. CoolCall.com can turn any phone into an IP appliance." Chojnowski said that CoolCall.com would like to dominate the world of IP telephony services and become the dominant brand name worldwide, foreseeing a time where everyone will be making `CoolCalls.' "Five years down the line, I see everyone being CoolCall connected," Chojnowski said. "Wherever you go, your personal communication portal moves with you. We have an opportunity in a lot of markets to set the standard, build the trend and create the demand for these new types of services." CoolCall.com is described within the industry as "a one-of-a-kind international IP Telephony cooperative" that provides convergent telephony, fax, data, broadband video and e-commerce services on a high-speed international backbone. CoolCall.com has been funded by Samsung America, Garage.com and the Band of Angels. The company is based in Fairfield, Iowa's "Silicorn Valley," the birthplace birth·place n. The place where someone is born or where something originates. birthplace Noun the place where someone was born or where something originated Noun 1. of a number of successful telecom and Internet-related companies. |
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