Mpower To Launch VoIP Hosted PBX Services

HostReview.com
Wednesday, July 28, 2004; 12:00 AM

July 28, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - Mpower Communications Corp.(www.mpower.com), a leading provider of broadband Internet access and telephone services to business customers, today announced its plans to launch a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) Hosted PBX offering in the fourth quarter of this year.

"To support the expansion of our IP-based services, we selected a platform from VocalData, a proven market leader in hosted IP applications with outstanding feature and development capabilities, cost-effective solutions and premier partner support," stated Mpower Communications New Technology Officer Russ Shipley.

"Given our financial position, Mpower is able to make
investments in broadening our VoIP capabilities to meet the growing needs of our customers while staying within our current CapEx guidance."

Mpower's VoIP Hosted PBX services will further enhance the company's robust set of facilities-based voice and data products. Mpower was a pioneer in the IP-telephony field and has been offering IP-based services since 1999.

Its flagship MpowerOffice product provides VoIP and Internet access on a single T1 with dynamic bandwidth allocation.

VocalData, Inc. provides an integrated suite of hosted IP telephony applications that enable service providers to reliably and cost-effectively deliver voice-over-IP solutions. VocalData's award-winning application server is an open solution that allows service providers to deliver higher value telephony services to business and residential customers. Through its more than 50 customers and broad partner base, VocalData supports more than 250,000 deployed enhanced IP telephony lines today. VocalData (www.vocaldata.com) was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.