GlobeTel Communications Corp., announced the launch of VozBrasil (
http://www.vozbrasil.com), a service which will allow Brazilians to call their friends, relatives and business associates in the US through a local number, at local rates, without the need for broadband internet access or any special equipment. Also, separately, over the next two weeks, GlobeTel will be launching a service that allows Brazilians to obtain a US phone number that, when called, will forward those calls to their local phone number in Brazil -- all at low VoIP rates. This is the first of many services that will allow people across the globe to attach US phone numbers -- and thereby forward local US calls -- to their local phone numbers in their own countries.
VozBrasil is a customized, VoIP-based communications network developed by GlobeTel's VoIP Division for the US-based Brazilian community. The Company believes this is the first commercially available VoIP system that eliminates the need for Customer Premise Equipment ("CPE"), resulting in increased savings and flexibility for both the telecom provider and for the end-user customer.
VozBrasil customers in the US who would like their friends in Brazil to be able to call them - without incurring the enormous charges of calling from Brazil to the US -- can now get a local Brazilian number issued to them by GlobeTel in any of the most populous areas of Brazil. This local Brazilian number can be linked to any US telephone number the US customer chooses -- that is: his home phone, his business phone or his cell phone -- and when his local Brazilian number is called by his Brazilian friends, that "linked phone" will ring instantly in the US. And, when the call to the "linked" U.S. number is completed, the Brazilian caller is charged only for a local Brazilian call. For even greater savings, the US customer has the option of having both a Brazilian and a US number attached to his VoIP service, although this dual-service requires that the customer have a broadband connection and a small, home-installed VoIP device. This further refinement provides the customer with the extremely low calling rates available throughout the world using voice over IP calling.
For our commercial partners, VozBrasil is the first commercial VoIP implementation based on GlobeTel's proprietary voice platform known as StrateVoIP -- a carrier-class platform designed to provide country-specific calling plans and customized packages to its commercial partners. The StrateVoIP platform enables our ISP and telecom partners around the world to offer their local customers the benefits of voice over IP calling without the need for them to expend huge amounts of capital on the development of a VoIP platform or on an investment in customer premise equipment ("CPE"). StrateVoIP provides a billing and management backend software system that allows any of our partners to be highly competitive with incumbent telcos by offering easy-to-configure calling plans, prepaid phone cards, and least cost routing.
Within minutes of signing up, a VozBrasil retail customer can have his own US or Brazilian number attached or "linked" to his existing phone number. This real-time feature is one of the many components of the StrateVoIP system that makes it so appealing to ISP's and to telecom companies seeking to provide voice over IP services to their own customers.
Dan Erdberg, President of GlobeTel VoIP, stated, "The US-based Brazilian community is large, growing and vibrant, and it maintains very close ties to its business and personal networks within Brazil. We have designed the platform with real-time features including a user-friendly method of assigning local Brazilian phone numbers to any US-based Brazilians who desire such a local, home-country number. Our US clients can easily select a phone number throughout Brazil and have that local number ring directly to a VoIP phone or cellular phone located in any other location, anywhere in the world, through our system. Instantly, our customers in Brazil will now have the ability to call their families in the US as easily and inexpensively as if they were calling them next door. Also, using the VozBrasil local access number, our U.S. customers are able to call Brazil directly from their U.S. location and inform their friends and families of their new local Brazilian numbers, allowing them to communicate at local tariffs. And this can all be done within minutes of signing up for our service."
Timothy Huff, Chief Executive Officer of GlobeTel Communications, stated, "Arguably, this technology makes international long distance calling a thing of the past. The largest barriers-to-entry facing our competing VoIP service providers are the integration costs and the cost of providing Customer Premise Equipment to their customers. And, importantly, our competitors' systems are able to interact with only those customers having high speed, broadband Internet access. The StrateVoIP platform completely eliminates all of those costs and concerns. And, as a result, our service is accessible by both those who have access to Broadband connections and those who don't. This represents a remarkable breakthrough: mobile VoIP without the need for any computer interface."
By making contact through
http://www.VozBrasil.com or by calling 1-888-6Brasil (1-888-627-2745), both business clients and individual customers anywhere in the US can subscribe to high-quality, low-cost telephone service featuring local Brazilian telephone numbers and unlimited calling plans to and from Brazil. With plans starting at under $15 per month, customers can sign up and register for the service in real time, allowing them -- within a matter of minutes -- to communicate with Brazil and save money.