Daily News 2006/05/24

Netcentrex providing over 3000,000 VoIP lines for residential buildings

Netcentrex, provider of next generation of audio and video solution, announced today that it has provided over 3000,000 Class 5 VoIP lines for residential buildings. In the last month iLocus announced that Netcentrex was the world leader in the market of VoIP application servers. Netcentrex is experiencing a rapid growth in its business (voice over broadband, VoBB). Everyday there are over 5000 lines being put into operation.
iLocus points out in the research report (Global VoIP Market 2006) that in 2005 Netcentrex shared 29% of the local VoIP traffic and became the absolute leader. In this report Netcentrex was described as world leading "Independent Subscriber Feature Server", with a market share of 32%。

Netcom providing value-added service to the users through the"114"

Beijing Netcom announced on May 14 that it has begun to adjust the telephone number searching business of"114"hotline, changing the telephone numbers and providing more value-added services, including road guiding, ticket booking, house agent, delivery, emergency rescue, room booking, etc.
This measure will make"114"turning from a hotline that provides free-of-charge telephone number searching service to one that provides chargeable service to enterprise users for priority rights. Insides think that this will bring more benefits to the operators

Skype launching marketing plan for North America---charge no fee for calls from PC to telephone

May 16, Peking time: according to foreign medias, Skype publicized a marketing plan for North America. According to the plan, the clients of Skype in America and Canada don't have to pay fee for calls from PC to fixed telephone or mobile phone (inside each country or between the two countries). This will put its competitors, including Vonage, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google, under great pressure.