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Press Release
BroadSoft Selected by Skyrr - Iceland's
Second Largest ISP - To Provide Country's First Hosted VoIP Service
to Enterprises
Premium Service Enhances Corporate Communications with Auto
Attendant and Leading Features Such as Remote Office and Selective
Call Forwarding
GAITHERSBURG, MD, October 3, 2005 - BroadSoft®, the
leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced that
Skyrr, Iceland's second largest ISP, has selected BroadSoft's BroadWorks®
VoIP application software to support its hosted VoIP service offering.
Mixing the latest in next-generation features with competitive pricing,
Skyrr's VoIP service will launch in Iceland in November 2005.
"Improving employee productivity and reducing overhead costs
are mission-critical considerations for our business customers.
We needed a VoIP solution that could provide our customers with
a competitive alternative to onsite equipment that would benefit
them both operationally and economically," said Magnus Bodvar
Eythorsson, director of hosted solutions at Skyrr. "We selected
the BroadWorks technology because of its ability to support our
customers' challenging operational requirements."
"Our presence in the Icelandic market further illustrates
our success at meeting the global demand for hosted VoIP solutions,"
said Michael Tessler, president and CEO at BroadSoft. "Skyrr's
commitment to quality service combined with BroadWorks' rich set
of business features positions Skyrr to deliver the competitive
solutions their customers want."
Skyrr will offer its business customers a bundled VoIP services
solution over a single broadband connection to the Skyrr network.
This service bundle combines unlimited local and long distance calling,
dedicated Internet access and Web hosting for a single monthly price.
By using BroadSoft's BroadWorks platform, Skyrr will be able to
offer a wide range of advanced features that enable its customers
to:
- Improve productivity with a voice virtual private network (VPN)
that offers site-to-site calling, private dial plans, and support
for mobile workers
- Improve customer service with a personalized and professional
auto-attendant greeting that seamlessly connects callers to employees
anywhere, on any phone
- From easy-to-use web portals, empower employees to manage advanced
features such as selective call forwarding, click-to-dial Microsoft
Outlook contacts, and remote office calling
BroadSoft's BroadWorks provides a comprehensive range of VoIP applications,
including hosted PBX, IP Centrex, mobile PBX, business trunking
and residential broadband services fully integrated into a single
hosted communications platform. BroadWorks is uniquely capable of
providing these applications with the reliability, redundancy, scalability
and regulatory capabilities required to deliver carrier-class service.
ABOUT SKYRR
Skyrr offers diverse IT solutions and services and attends to
the many needs of over 2,300 demanding customers of all types and
sizes. Skyrr operates an ISO 9001 certified quality system with
highly qualified employees. The company is able to compete on the
international market of software development. Skyrr's core services
and solutions comprises three main categories, software solution,
services solutions (ASP and outsourcing) and data connection services
(ISP and now VoIP). Skyrr is Iceland's second biggest ISP. Skyrr
was founded in 1952 and is a premier international provider of diverse
business software solutions, database-related software solutions,
information technologies, ASP, hosting and intergrated internet
services. Skyrr represents and supports globally recognised IT systems
from partners such as Microsoft, Oracle, Novell, VeriSign and Business
Objects. Skyrr is a member of the Kögun family of enterprises.
Additional information is available at www.skyrr.com.
ABOUT BROADSOFT
BroadSoft's VoIP application software is revolutionizing the delivery
of hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its flagship BroadWorks®
technology empowers wireless and wireline carriers to deliver next-generation
voice and multimedia applications and advanced features that increase
revenue, enhance competitive differentiation and elevate customer
satisfaction. BroadSoft's family of carrier-class software products
delivers the scale, open architecture and reliability that the world's
leading telecommunications companies demand to serve mission-critical
enterprise and residential broadband customers. BroadSoft's customer
base of 110 network operators, including BellSouth, MCI, Singtel,
Telstra, Verizon and XO Communications leads the industry with more
than 1,200,000 lines deployed. Additional information is available
at www.broadsoft.com.
BroadSoft and BroadWorks are registered trademarks of BroadSoft,
Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.
For further information contact:
BroadSoft
Hilary Tomasson
+1 (240) 364-5147
htomasson@broadsoft.com
Calysto Communications for BroadSoft
Cameron Smith
+1 (404) 266-2060 ext.19
csmith@calysto.com
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