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Fusion Reaches 1 Million |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Tuesday, 03 April 2007 |
New York-based Fusion Telecommunications says it has signed more than a
million people up to its Efonica VoIP service. The Skype-like
Peer-to-Peer service has demonstrated healthy growth since launch and
looks like becoming a permanent part of the broadband telephony
landscape.
Targeting a global market with an emphasis on countries that have a
large expatriate and imigrant representation in the US market, the
Efonica service offers subscribers the ability to call each other for
free with the and convenience of registering their existing landline or
mobile telephone
number as their Internet telephone number.
Calls can be made to and
from any combination of PCs, Internet phones, and regular telephones
(with a SIP adapter), connected to either a wireless, broadband or
dial-up Internet connection. The service incorporates Fusion's
patent-pending worldwide Internet area code, which combined with a
subscriber's existing telephone number, further simplifies the process
of making a call.
Efonica launched in mid-June2006
and by the end of July had already signed up quarter of a million
people. It's taken nine months to sign up the next three quarters of a
million, but the company is now represented by subscribers in more than
100 countries.
"Fusion is very pleased to announce we have reached over One Million
subscribers to our Efonica VoIP services", said Matthew Rosen,
President and CEO of Fusion. "Now that we have achieved this major
milestone, we are concentrating our efforts on driving revenue through
marketing our paid services to consumers and corporations, directly and
through the creation of strategic distribution partnerships around the
world", he said.
The service works in a peer-to-peer fashion
much like Skype, except it doesn't rely on super-servers. Instead it
leverages Fusion's own carrier-class network and back-office
infrastructure. Each call automatically accesses a central registry for authentication
and uses a centralised routing engine to facilitate the connection
directly between calling parties.
www.fusiontel.com
www.efonica.com
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