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Our Niche: 1. VOIP based calling cards & phone services Global Voice's use of technology is changing the way people are making low priced phone calls, Using the internet, Voice Over Internet Protocol ("VOIP"), users of Global Voice's service can now make calls at over 70% less than normal phone company rates. Global Voice's value is to provide it end customers, which may be local phone companies or resellers of calling card products, with lower international calling costs by bypassing originating long-distance carriers and beating their more costly charges. VOIP based technology offers this feature with proven and robust call quality. According to the latest survey, VOIP sales are forecasted to explode to $349 billion in 2006.
Frost & Sullivan, World VoIP Services Market (2001) Competitive Rates:Global Voice LLC will offer international direct dials ("IDD") rates that average more than 50-70 percent lower than the incumbent mobile carriers would charge. For example, a call from Portugal to the United States, typically costs about $.10 per minute, but using Global Voice LLC, it's nearer to 5 cents a minute.
Shahal Khan, Managing Director Europe Market OpportunitiesGlobal Voice LLC has subsidiaries in Spain and Portugal. Products are distributed through local agents or carriers that would be able to re-brand the service as their own. The way this system works is that calls can be initiated from anywhere but it comes through GV's wholesale backbone that exists in the U.S. and in U.K, so, the partners can actually bring traffic and volume from any country in the world back to GV's network, which is optimizing to route the calls via VOIP at the lowest cost. Global Voice LLC is privately funded through its directors. GLOBAL VOICE gives emerging competitive carriers an instant global network often enabling them to compete from the first day of deregulation. Incumbent carriers use GLOBAL VOICE’s lower costs and higher margins to recapture revenue lost to competitive carriers or to balance traffic needed to fulfill bilateral agreements. In newly deregulated countries, carriers find working with GLOBAL VOICE to be the fastest and easiest way to get a worldwide termination footprint. These carriers also benefit from GLOBAL VOICE’s very competitive outbound prices and high-volume, revenue-producing incoming traffic. Where deregulation is imminent or is in its infancy, GLOBAL VOICE empowers emerging carriers to offer domestic and international long distance with little capital expense. GLOBAL VOICE shares its technical knowledge; pays the carrier for completing calls originated around the world; insulates the carrier from wholesale credit risks; and offers the expertise of GLOBAL VOICE’s 24/7 NOC and Deployment Team. GLOBAL VOICE additionally gives these new carriers the very competitive advantage of GLOBAL VOICE’s purchasing team to negotiate the best land-based and mobile prices to every major city in the world. |