SIPphone's New Call-in-One Device Adds Free Internet Calling to Traditional Household Phones
San Diego - March 23, 2004 -
SIPphone.com today announced immediate availability of it's Call-in-One Internet telephony adapter, developed and manufactured by Leadtek Corporation. The Call-in-One allows consumers to add free Internet calling to their standard home or office phone. By combining traditional phone service with the ability to make and receive high quality net calls the Call-in-One gives users the ability to do free net calling without interrupting their existing phone service.
To date there have been two Internet telephone options, services offering a monthly flat rate nominally lower than traditional telco plans, and emerging services that require people to make and receive calls while sitting at their computer. "The Call-in-One eliminates the awkwardness of other Voice-over-IP (VoIP) solutions, by combining free Internet calling with your traditional home phone service" says Michael Robertson, SIPphone.com's founder and CEO. "With the Call-in-One you get the best of both worlds on your existing phone."
"For Internet-based calling to move into the mainstream, it needs to operate identically to the existing phone. People don't want to talk into a computer," says Michael Robertson, CEO of SIPphone.com. "Plus, with SIPphone, you can save hundreds of dollars a year in long distance and international calling costs." The Call-in-One combines the convenience of your regular phone with the celebrated benefits of Internet telephony, including free worldwide calling, digital quality calls, voicemail delivered to email, free on-the-fly conference calling and more. Session Initiated Protocol, or SIP, is the new standard for VoIP service. The Call-in-One combines the traditional phone service with it's inevitable replacement, SIP VoIP service.
"The success of SIPphone.com signifies the broadband telephony service as a mature and cost effective communication solution that rivals the traditional telephony services. SIPphone has done a great job in developing the Plug-N-Dial technology to remove the barriers that have limited the growth of VoIP. We are excited to be a contributor to the technology and a supplier of the Call-in-One" says K.S. Lu, CEO of Leadtek Research Inc.
The Call-in-One makes it possible for the millions of "early adopters" around the world to add Internet telephony, without losing their existing service or disturbing other home or office members. A SIPphone.com beta user sent a Call-in-One to his sister in Switzerland. "Now when I call her, she doesn't even know I am making the call for free from my SIPphone, and she doesn't have to go searching for the 'other' phone" says Chris Lindland, an early SIPphone customer.
Another beta user, Elizabeth Gardner, praised the Call-in-One's seamless integration with his existing local telco service. "I added the Call-in-One without one complaint from my husband or daughters, since the phone works exactly as it did before. The difference is now I can call my business partner in Japan for free on our normal telephone."
The Call-in-One is about the size of a small hardback book, and plugs into a broadband connection and an existing phone line. The device uses SIPphone's Plug-N-Dial standard to automatically configure itself seconds after it is plugged in. There are no monthly or setup fees. The Call-in-One retails for under $90, and can only be purchased from SIPphone.com's website. The unit is available immediately for domestic and international customers. Stay up-to-date on all SIPphone.com happenings, click here.
About SIPphone.com
SIPphone.com is the leader in true SIP broadband calling. With no monthly fees, no setup fees and SIP adapters for standard phones starting under $75, anyone around the world with broadband access can now enjoy the benefits of free worldwide calling, clear digital calls, free voicemail, free conference calling and zero configurations devices, based on SIPphone's Plug-N-Dial standard.
SIPphone was founded by Michael Robertson, who also founded MP3.com (digital music) and Lindows.com (digital delivery of software). SIPphone is based in San Diego, California.
About Leadtek
Leadtek Research Inc has been developing and manufacturing Video and Voice over IP (VVoIP) products for use by corporations, government and consumers since 1994. With its in-house technologies in video and voice communications, Leadtek stands out as a one-stop shopping endpoint equipment partner for Internet telephony service providers. Leadtek VVoIP products features a unified software development platform between video and voice product, which greatly reduce the time to deployment and provisioning complexity of the broadband telephony services.
For more information contact:
Jeff Bonforte
Public Relations, SIPphone.com, Inc.
9333 Genesee Aveneue, Suite 250
San Diego CA 92121
pr@sipphone.com
858-587-6700 x 287 telephone
858-587-8095 fax
