Often times the business traveler doesn’t understand his company’s reluctance to send him off to visit clients face to face. It’s certainly not because it’s not effective, it’s usually based upon cost considerations. Take Cell phone communications for example. When the global business man uses his cell phone in another country, he’s besieged with cost structures that frighten even the most liberal CFO’s. Roaming charges, as the phone is transferred from network to network, accumulate. In a short period of time, significant charges are built up, charges that can be so daunting as to hinder the users use of the device.
Industry studies have shown that pressure from corporate CFO’s to keep costs down have impaired some sales forces’ use of Cell phones. Sales calls that aren’t considered to be of the highest probability of being successful aren’t being made. But a call not made, can never be successful, and Sales managers are constantly quarreling with Financial Officers and “cost cops”. But now Voiceserve is determined to change that.
Voiceserve is a UK based company and is a provider of low-cost Pay as You Go and prepaid cell phone services via the GSM Network to customers primarily in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Products already Developed include Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) airtime minutes bundled with an array of interesting optional features, which can include virtual numbers, direct dial, web callback, call forwarding, and “no roaming.” Customers can purchase local virtual numbers, from over 29 countries, which allows them to have a “virtual presence” in many foreign Countries without the costs involved in maintaining a branch in those areas. But also, with local numbers in as many as 50 different cities in a single country, Customers can expand their virtual presence across a wider spectrum of physical areas.
What makes Voiceserve confident that they can help those Chief financial officers feel better about global travel? Voiceserve is in the process of launching its Voice SIM that will dramatically reduce mobile phone bills for international travelers. How? Because users will be exclusively on the Voiceserve network and will not incur roaming rates through other networks. Access to Voiceserve’s network allows customers savings on average of up to 85% on international calls. Consider this for a moment.
The roaming costs incurred by the international traveler are quite exorbitant. Voiceserve’s technology bypasses the roaming on other Networks offered by the phone, and allows access to their own VOIP based network, saving the caller huge sums of money. This is how it’s done. The customer buys “airtime” that’s preloaded on a SIM. He inserts the SIM in his phone and goes on his way. When a call is made, the Voiceserve SIM changes the initial call into a text message that goes to Voiceserve’s network. The network recognizes the message, then routes the call via VOIP, and within ten seconds, the call is going through; but at significantly reduced rates.
With their recently announced acquisition of VoipSwitch, a recognized leader in the deployment of VOIP technologies, VoiceServe will enjoy the benefits of an in house, fully scalable VOIP network solution, complete with customizable billing options already imbedded. This will enable VoiceServe to better integrate the VOIP services into its 4 main streams of revenue generation.
With its acquisition of VOIPSwitch, VoiceServe solidifies it’s revenue streams via it’s “Call shop” business, it’s wholesale international minutes business, it’s residential and Business VOIP minutes business, and now the mobile SIM connectivity. With new satellite offices planned for the Middle East and Africa, additional offices are planned for Belgium, Holland, Israel, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States. VoiceServe is positioning itself to be a unique and successful provider in the mobile and VOIP telecom space.
With VoiceServe’s approach to mobile pre-purchased VOIP SIM’s, financial officers no longer have to fear exorbitant mobile bills, and Sales managers can send their sales forces out without the overhang of fear from cost backlash. This is a technology and solution that’s right for this time and VoiceServe stands to benefit along with the businesses it helps.
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