UPC laat in een press-release weten dat het samen met Cisco VoIP (Voice over IP) gaat aanbieden in Europa. Hiervoor wil UPC het bestaande kabelnetwerk gaan gebruiken. Het project gaat drie jaar duren en het zal 500.000 mensen de gelegenheid geven om van VoIP gebruik te maken. Een groot voordeel van VoIP is de lage prijs waarvoor het kan worden aangeboden. Hieronder een gedeelte uit de press-release:
John Riordan, President of UPC said: "This letter of intent reaffirms our ‘triple play’ strategy of creating shareholder value by providing the most comprehensive and high-quality voice, data and video services for business and residential customers. UPC strongly believes in VoIP as a successful and leading world standard and is actively building all of its networks to be VoIP-compatible.” Gene Musselman, COO of UPC, who will supervise the migration of all UPC systems in this direction adds: ”The roll out of this technology is very important for UPC. When we have set this step we really are moving forward. The right execution is of course of vital importance”.
William Nuti, Senior Vice President of Cisco Systems, Europe, Middle East and Africa added: “Voice over IP is a ‘future-proof’ technology, which has matured for implementation on a pan-European scale. It will offer operators a new business model through which they can deploy and operate a single, multiservice broadband network. We have worked with UPC for around five years, and we are delighted to continue helping them deliver on their commitment to providing their customers with the foremost broadband network and the very latest in voice, video and data services.”
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