ITXC and Gambia Telecommunications Company in Pact for Domestic and International Internet Telephony.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2000 Internet Telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. Project Expected to Increase Teledensity and Rural Coverage in Gambia ITXC (Internet Telephony Exchange Carrier Corporation, Princeton, NJ, www.itxc.com) The largest IP exchange carrier in the world. ITXC was acquired by wholesale telco provider Teleglobe Bermuda Ltd. in 2004 and then by Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Corp(R) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ITXC) and Gambia Telecommunications Company See telecom company. (GamTel), the dominant carrier in Gambia, have signed an agreement to exchange international Internet telephony traffic between the rest of the world and the African nation. GamTel is the first African carrier to join ITXC's initiative announced earlier this week in Ghana under which ITXC provides technical help in establishing not only international but also domestic Internet telephony to meet the needs of users calling phone-to- phone. Use of IP technology over Gambia's excellent domestic fiber network is expected to accelerate the increase in teledensity, which the carrier is committed to, and penetration of basic phone service to rural areas. "As we add access lines to meet the needs of Gambians, increased trunk A communications channel between two points. It generally refers to a high-bandwidth, fiber-optic line between telephone switching centers (central offices). Telephone "trunks" handle thousands of simultaneous voice and data signals, whereas telephone "lines" are the wires from the capacity to carry added calls becomes critical," said Adama Deen, Deputy Managing Director of GamTel. "Working with ITXC helps us achieve our goal of better communication both within Gambia and between Gambia and the rest of the world. Using IP technology to carry both calls and data on our existing fiber backbone gives us the advantage of concentrating traffic on one large network linked to the rest of the world by the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . Building one network instead of two makes our capital go much further." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. ITXC Chairman 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. Tom Evslin, "Gamtel is the eleventh In music or music theory an eleventh is the note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord and also the interval between the root and the eleventh. Since there are only seven degrees in a diatonic scale the eleventh degree is the same as the subdominant and the interval national carrier to connect to ITXC.net; but they are the first to fully embrace Internet telephony as a key tool for a massive increase in domestic capacity as well as international. Gambia may become the world's first fully converged nation with enormous economic benefits." At the African Telecom Summit in Accra, Ghana, ITXC made an offer to help African service providers with "intellectual capital" to build domestic Internet telephony networks with links to ITXC.net for international traffic exchange. The agreement with GamTel was closed by the companies at the Summit in Accra. Deployment of initial stages for international calling is expected to begin immediately. About ITXC: ITXC Corp(R) (NASDAQ:ITXC) is the service providers' service provider for voice on the Internet. ITXC WWeXchange Service(R) provides phone-to-phone wholesale call completion for carriers and resellers and has been chosen by ten of the top twelve U.S. facilities-based carriers, leading European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. competitive carriers and PTTs worldwide to complete their customers' calls. ITXC webtalkNOW!SM Service is an outsourced solution for portals, ISPs, and other Internet companies offering web-based or PC-to-phone calling to their customers. Both services provide high quality over the public Internet by routing calls on ITXC.net which is the largest Internet telephony network in the world with 192 points of presence in 124 cities and 50 countries. Announced carrier affiliates include Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, China Telecom, Interoute, Justice, Korea Telecom KT (formerly, Korea Telecom, Korean: 한국통신, NYSE: KT) is South Korea's top integrated wired/wireless telecommunication service provider. KT has been Korea's leader in the development of the information & communications business for the last 25 years , and Pacific Gateway Exchange. Web-based customers include Dialpad.com, MediaRing, and Onebox.com. For more information, please visit www.itxc.com. Forward looking statements: ITXC may not meet the projections reflected in its forward looking statements due to numerous risks and uncertainties, including, among other factors, the volatile and competitive environment for Internet telephony, changes in domestic and foreign economic, market and regulatory conditions and other risks detailed in ITXC's reports filed from time to time with the SEC. ITXC Corp and WWeXchange are registered trademarks. ITXC.net, BestValue Routing, and ITXC webtalkNOW! are trademarks and service marks of ITXC Corp. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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