Aptela Selects VoX Communications for its VoIP Service Offering
Leading Enhanced Business Voice Provider to Utilize VoX VoIP
CELEBRATION, Fla., Sept. 28, 2005 – VoX Communications, Inc., eLEC Communications Corp.’s wholesale and retail provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services nationwide, announced today that Aptela, Inc., a provider of business VoIP services headquartered in McLean, Va., has selected VoX’s advanced wholesale services as part of its hosted VoIP service offering to business customers nationwide.
“We’re pleased that Aptela has selected VoX to complement its existing IP-based suite of voice services,” said VoX’s CIO Mark Richards. “They made the right choice.”
“Aptela serves hundreds of businesses from SOHOs (small office/home office) to Fortune 500 companies - all of which require high-quality and reliable voice services. We are attracting many different service providers, like Aptela, who are looking for partners that deliver on their promises of providing quality, reliability, and a full complement of voice services and features. Our team has developed advanced new switching and routing technologies that provide a carrier-quality, low-cost and feature-rich platform designed for stability with no single point of failure,” Richards added.
Aptela’s President and CEO Howard Freidman commented, “Aptela's focus is on delivering a best-of-breed application suite that combines unsurpassed capabilities and ease of use with business-grade voice services. To do that we need carrier partners that understand VoIP technology, can work at web speed versus telecom speed, and can deliver business-grade connections. We believe VoX offers all of that.”
“In addition, we have the utmost confidence in the management team and their commitment to quality, which unfortunately isn't easy to find these days,” Freidman added.
“VoX’s wholesale, hosted Voice over Broadband service allows service providers to invest their resources in acquiring and servicing customers. VoX takes care of all of the back-office logistics of operating and managing a carrier-quality VoIP network - so they can leave the technology to us,” said VoX’s CTO Michael Khalilian. VoX customers continue to benefit from improved quality control and VoX’s sharply reduced service cost,” Khalilian added.
About VoX Communications
Based in Celebration, Fla., VoX Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp. Using its advanced, nationwide Voice over IP (VoIP) network, VoX offers wholesale broadband voice, origination and termination services for cable, wireless and wireline operators, and enhanced VoIP telephone service 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 www.voxcorp.net.
About eLEC Communications
eLEC Communications Corp., headquartered in White Plains, NY, is a publicly traded local telecommunications 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.
About Aptela, Inc.
Aptela, Inc. provides a web-based service that enhances or replaces traditional business voice service and phone equipment, saving time and money and providing new capabilities that help businesses thrive in an always-on world. Aptela's service delivers a full suite of functionality, ranging from traditional call control features to innovative collaboration tools, along with plug and play business-grade VoIP, advanced IVR, conferencing, find-me, instant messaging, voicemail, email, and fax. To learn more about Aptela's service, please visit http://www.aptela.com/.
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 Form 10-QSB for the period ending May 31, 2005, and any subsequent SEC filings.
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