Voice and Fax Services for ISPs

Quicknet Technologies announced a new business model for ISPs that will provide own-branded voice and Fax IP services using the company's MicroTelco service.

by Wayne Kawamoto
[December 9, 2000]

According to Quicknet Technologies, its MicroTelco service brings multiple Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs), such as Net2Phone and Deltathree, together in a convenient, simple to use account center for better reliability, quality, choice, and flexibility.

MicroTelco was designed for multiple business opportunities including co-branding the online account center and creating structures for revenue sharing.

Quicknet claims that ISPs can take advantage of MicroTelco's features and additional revenue opportunities using a turnkey worldwide VoIP service solution with a short implementation time and no major capital investment. And ISPs may be able to expand their service offerings and add value by saving customers up to 95% on their calls while maintaining an ISP's own brand name.

MicroTelco, when combined with Quicknet's hardware and Internet SwitchBoard 4.0, may be able to deliver Internet based voice calls (from a PC to a standard phone) and Internet-based faxes (from a PC to a fax machine or to multiple fax machines and/or to email addresses). Quicknet says that MicroTelco is reliable and guarantees improved connection rates.

MicroTelco may be configured to automatically compare rates between multiple providers to choose the lowest per minute rate (least cost routing).

Other features include an ability to choose a provider based on a user's criteria for quality or cost, and manually comparing rates between multiple providers. In addition, MicroTelco offers its own online billing solution, which may provide better control over long distance costs.

"This is truly a win-win situation for ISPs to expand their service offering quickly, easily, at a low entry cost, with fraud protection, guaranteed revenue shares and branding under their own name," said Stacey Reineccius, CEO and President of Quicknet Technologies. "Rapid time to market means the ability to quickly generate more revenue, giving ISPs another advantage over their competitors while delivering to end-users low-cost, high-quality Internet-based calling saving customers money on every call."

"ISPs can now add domestic and International voice and fax services to their offerings without equipment investment or developing an internally skilled staff to operate the services," added Reineccius. "With their own brand, customer protection and generous revenue shares Quicknet's MicroTelco service offering is clean, fast and profitable for the ISP seeking to gain more recurring revenue from its user base."

Pricing and availability
All Quicknet products and services are available now.

Guaranteed revenue shares are determined under contract but can range between 5% and 20%, depending on volume. Also, depending on volume of service, there may be setup charges.

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