VoX Communications Adds Enhanced 911 Service to its VoIP Services Offering
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. and CELEBRATION, Fla., September 20, 2005 – VoX Communications, a wholesale and retail provider of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) services nationwide, announced today that it has selected Global Crossing’s (NASDAQ: GLBC) new Enhanced 911 (E911) solution to supports its VoIP services offering. VoX is a wholly owned subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp. (OTCBB: ELEC), an integrated communications service provider based in White Plains, N.Y.
“We are enhancing our VoX E911 strategy by partnering with industry leaders like Global Crossing to support our plans toward total E911 compliance and a nationwide VoX VoIP and E911 offering,” said VoX’s CIO Mark Richards. “We’re pleased to add their new E911 solution to our services offering so we can give our valuable customers this critical feature without having to install and maintain dedicated networks that connect to public safety access points (PSAPs). Now we can leverage Global Crossing’s existing connections, global reach and experience in delivering E911 services to deliver a complete solution to our customers that offer the highest VoIP reliability, cost savings and public safety features.”
E911 is an emergency reporting system that reports the Automatic Number Identification (ANI) and the Automatic Location Identification (ALI) when connecting an emergency call to the assigned PSAP. This allows the PSAP to immediately identify the exact location of the caller’s telephone and dispatch assistance at once, regardless of the caller’s ability to communicate, when receiving a 911 call.
"We’re pleased to provide VoX Communications with our E911 service to help round out their extensive VoIP services," said Anthony Christie, Global Crossing’s chief marketing officer. "By leveraging our E911 solution, VoX can offer comprehensive VoIP services coupled with the same public safety features customers experience with their traditional, landline telephone service."
VoX Communications offers wholesale broadband voice, origination and termination services for cable, wireless and wireline operators and enhanced VoIP services to the small business and residential marketplace. VoX's feature-rich offering includes Call Hold, Call Waiting, Caller ID, Call Transfer, Hunt Groups, Do Not Disturb, Call Forward, International Call Blocking, Call Return, Repeat Dialing/Redial, Extension Dialing, Anonymous Call Rejection and e-mail notification of voicemail, all at no additional charge. Add-on features include: Multibox Voicemail, Music on Hold, Corporate Conference calling, Reassign Phone, Find me/Follow me, and Auto Attendant, among others.
About Global Crossing
Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects more than 300 cities and 30 countries worldwide, and delivers services to more than 500 major cities, 50 countries and 6 continents around the globe. The company’s global sales and support model matches the network footprint and, like the network, delivers a consistent customer experience worldwide.
Global Crossing IP services are global in scale, linking the world’s enterprises, governments and carriers with customers, employees and partners worldwide in a secure environment that is ideally suited for IP-based business applications, allowing e-commerce to thrive. The company offers a full range of managed data and voice products including Global Crossing IP VPN Service, Global Crossing Managed Services and Global Crossing VoIP services, to more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. Please visit www.globalcrossing.com for more information about Global Crossing.
About VoX Communications
Based in Celebration, Fla., VoX Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp. Using its advanced, nationwide VoIP network, VoX offers wholesale broadband voice, origination and termination services for cable, wireless and wireline operators, and enhanced VoIP telephone services to the small business and residential marketplace. VoX's VoIP service is a feature-rich, low-cost and high-quality alternative to traditional landline phone service. For more information, visit http://www.voxcorp.net/.
About eLEC Communications
eLEC Communications Corp., headquartered in White Plains, NY, is a publicly traded communications services company that is taking advantage of the convergence of the technological and regulatory developments in the Internet and telecommunications markets. eLEC provides an integrated suite of communications services to business and residential customers, including local, long distance, dedicated access, and VoIP. For more information, visit www.elec.net.
This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. eLEC’s actual results may differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, among others, certain risks and uncertainties over which the company may have no control. For further discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the discussions contained in eLEC’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended November 30, 2004 and Quarterly Report on Forms 10-QSB for the period ending February 28, 2005, May 31, 2005 and any subsequent SEC filings.
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For more information, please contact:
For eLEC:
Terry May
HighTech PR, Inc.
321-632-1690
terrymay@hightechpr.net
For Global Crossing:
Catherine Berthier
646-256-8502
PR@globalcrossing.com