With (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service, CHAMPION can provide where available full-featured, cost-effective, high-quality local and long distance telephone service -- including 911 and E911 -- to consumers. Users with high-speed Internet connections, such as cable and DSL, can make and receive phone calls using existing analog touchtone telephones or digital IP telephones -- eliminating the need to purchase traditional telephone service.
«We’re excited that customers such as CHAMPION are building innovative offerings like CHAMPION GOLD on top of Level 3’s (3)VoIP Enhanced Local business and residential platform,» said Donna Lachance, senior vice president of Softswitch Services for Level 3. «The CHAMPION GOLD service demonstrates the value that (3)VoIP Enhanced Local offers our customers, namely the ability to increase revenues by helping accelerate and expand their launch of high- quality VoIP offerings tailored to their customers’ needs, thus differentiating themselves from competitors while also avoiding costly build-outs.»For
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Level 3 VoIP Services
Level 3’s (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service is a wholesale VoIP solution that enables companies who operate their own switching infrastructures to launch IP-based local and long-distance communications services to residential and business customers via any broadband connection. Level 3’s proprietary Softswitch platform makes the service extremely efficient, enabling enhanced service providers such as CHAMPION to cost effectively speed their deployment of high-quality VoIP services.
(3)VoIP Enhanced Local provides the essential components required to offer high-quality VoIP service. These components include network trunking, local numbers, local number portability, E911, operator assistance, directory listings, and directory assistance. At the same time, the (3)VoIP Enhanced Local solution allows Level 3 customers such as CHAMPION to retain the flexibility to manage and control end-user features without the headaches of implementing complex interconnection arrangements.
In markets where it is available, the E911 feature is Level 3’s enhanced 911 service, which adds further value to its VoIP services such as (3)VoIP Enhanced Local. E911 automatically associates a caller’s number with the caller’s location, and automatically connects the call to the closest Public Service Access Point.
Level 3’s (3)VoIP Local Inbound service supports toll-free VoIP telephony applications with the ability to dial locally and terminate nationally over traditional circuit-switched equipment. Level 3’s (3)Voice Termination service provides termination of VoIP calls into the United States, Canada, and U.S. territories over Level 3’s IP-based Softswitch network, enabling service providers to leverage traditional circuit-switched equipment.
Level 3 is an industry pioneer in the development of VoIP technology and services. The Level 3 global network, which is optimized end-to-end for IP technology, was built from the ground up with convergence in mind -- that is, to carry voice and data, as well as video services. Today, Level 3 offers a broad suite of wholesale business and residential IP-based voice solutions over a robust Softswitch-based network platform that carries over 30 billion minutes of IP-based voice and data calls every month.
Other Level 3 VoIP services include the (3)Tone(SM) Business Service suite, (3)VoIP Toll Free(SM), and HomeTone(SM).
About CHAMPION Communications
Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, CHAMPION
Communications, Inc. is a global telecommunications company providing Voice over Internet Protocol service to users worldwide through independent marketing representatives (IMRs). Besides their flagship product, VoIP, the company also offers traditional local and long distance services, cellular service, DSL, and ISP service. CHAMPION Communications works with leading industry suppliers of IT systems, peripherals, system components, software and networking equipment to offer its users and IMRs an opportunity to connect with the best.
About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 is an international communications and information services company. The company operates one of the largest Internet backbones in the world, is one of the largest providers of wholesale dial-up service to ISPs in North America and is the primary provider of Internet connectivity for millions of broadband subscribers, through its cable and DSL partners. The company offers a wide range of communications services over its 23,000 mile broadband fiber optic network including Internet Protocol (IP) services, broadband transport and infrastructure services, colocation services, and patented Softswitch managed modem and voice services. Its Web address is [ >>>
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The company offers information services through its subsidiaries, Software Spectrum and (i)Structure. For additional information, visit their respective Web sites at [ >>>
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The Level 3 logo and (3)Voice are registered service marks and (3)VoIP, (3)VoIP Enhanced and (3)VoIP Toll Free are service marks of Level 3 Communications, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. (3)Tone and HomeTone are service marks of Level 3 Enhanced Services, LLC in the United States and/or other countries. (3)Voice Termination and (3)VoIP services are offered by Level 3 Communications, LLC, and (3)Tone Business and HomeTone services are provided by Level 3 Enhanced Services, LLC, wholly owned subsidiaries of Level 3 Communications, Inc.
CHAMPION and the CHAMPION logo are trademarks of CHAMPION Communications, Inc. or
its subsidiaries and should be treated as such.
Forward Looking Statement
Some of the statements made by Level 3 in this press release are forward-looking in nature. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements. Level 3 believes that its primary risk factors include, but are not limited to: changes in the overall economy relating to, among other things, the September 11 attacks and subsequent events; substantial capital requirements; development of effective internal processes and systems; the ability to attract and retain high quality employees; technology; the number and size of competitors in its markets; law and regulatory policy; and the mix of products and services offered in the company’s target markets. Additional information concerning these and other important factors can be found within Level 3’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this release should be evaluated in light of these important factors.
