Allegiance to Add VoIP to Its Burgeoning Service Bundle

Looking to quickly offer triple- and quad-play service bundles to customers before competing telcos add IPTV to their mix, regional cableco Allegiance Communications is working with wholesaler VoX Communications Corp. to add VoIP to its menu.

Allegiance will use VoX’s voice service over cable systems it owns and operates in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri. Allegiance already offers video and high-speed Internet service.

The road to triple-play services is considered by industry analysts to be much tougher to hoe for telcos, which need to add complicated IPTV services to match or exceed cableco offerings, while cable firms can simply resell VoIP voice services already offered by others.

Allegiance, which recently acquired systems from Charter Communications, said more than 175,000 homes are passed in its served markets. Customers are served by a network of 18 field offices, according to Allegiance.

Allegiance chose VoX because it already provides VoIP in the rural markets and communities the cabelco serves, said Bill Haggerty, president and CEO of Allegiance.

Based in Celebration, Fla., VoX is a wholly owned subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp. Using its nationwide VoIP network, VoX offers wholesale broadband voice, origination and termination services for cable, wireless and wireline operators, and enhanced VoIP telephone service to the small business and residential marketplace.

The VoX VoIP service is a turnkey, SIP-based package that can be quickly and easily deployed, said Mark Richards, president and CIO of the wholesaler.

Allegiance Communications LLC www.allegiance.tv  

VoX Communications www.voxcorp.net

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