Level 3 Adds VoIP Markets, Partners with Net2Phone

Level 3 Communications Inc.’s (3)VoIP Enhanced Local residential phone service is now commercially available in more than 50 U.S. markets, completing the first stage of a phased rollout in over 300 U.S. markets by the end of 2004.

"(3)VoIP Enhanced Local service provides cable operators, enhanced service providers, and others the essential building blocks needed to cost-effectively accelerate their deployment of VoIP service to millions of consumers throughout the U.S," says Sureel Choksi, president of Softswitch Services for Level 3. "We're pleased to be introducing our new (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service in over 50 U.S. markets, and are on schedule to complete the deployment of this service to more than 300 markets by the end of the year."

(3)VoIP Enhanced Local service allows companies to develop and offer residential voice service using Level 3 provided building blocks, including local phone numbers, interconnection with the PSTN for local and long distance services, local number portability and E911 emergency services.

In other news, Level 3 and Net2Phone have joined forces to offer end-to-end telephony solutions to cable operators.

Net2Phone will use Level 3's new (3)VoIP Enhanced Local residential phone service as an enhancement to its current cable telephony solutions.

Net2Phone, which currently empowers cable operators with both PacketCable and SIP compliant fully integrated broadband phone service plans to use Level 3's new VoIP offering to enhance and expand its end-to-end telephony solutions. By outsourcing telephony deployments to Net2Phone, cable operators can minimize their upfront cost to deploy telephony services.

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