IT Competes again with BT

Added: (Fri Jun 24 2005)

Pressbox (Press Release) -
NEWS RELEASE DATED 23TH JULY 2005

ANNOUNCEMENT


WHOLESALE LINE RENTAL “STOP PRESS RELEASE”


INTERNET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC


Internet Telecommunications Plc "IT" since the announcement in 2003 that it is to be one of the first Telecom Operators to launch a Wholesale fixed line rental.

Since then, BT new announcement dated 23rd June 2005 by reducing Wholesale line rental: BT Briefing: SP037/05 (Service Providers are saying this is not enough).

Charlie Yiasemis (CEO) of Internet Telecommunications Plc announced today along with BT’s Statement that he feel proud to be part of the fastest growing Wholesale Line Rental Telecom Company in the UK and also has made the following statement and changes to help Services Providers move away from BT Wholesale;

IT's service will provide their Services Providers with substantial savings in Wholesale Line Rental (PSTN) up to 50% lower than BT's for business and up to 45% cheaper for Residential. Charges for Wholesale start from a little as £6.85 to as low as £5.37p compare to BT Wholesale business at £9.95 and Residential at £9.24 allowing Services Providers more profit per customer and further to compete against BT Retail which is where SP’s today are struggling to make profits.

ISDN via IT is substantially cheaper by 15% than BT Wholesale and IT promises to beat any genuine rate offering in the UK by a further 10% should they prove to have a lower deal than IT for the duration of the contract period.

It is also announced that IT’s current CPS Call Rates to Service Providers are the lowest in the country today competing with all UK Carrier such as Energis, MCI, Gamma, Opal and C&W. We further guarantee to meet or beat any Telecom Providers rates with same quality and CPS offering.

IT further strengthen their hold on the market to SP’s by offering "FREE" Line Rental to any single line user spending over £250 per line at any one month, making Service Provider even further money.

IT's strategy is to use its comparatively low buying powers and overhead base to provide a reliable Wholesale Service to compete with the larger Telecom Network Providers as the IT services are fully automotive via the secure website portal.

Services Providers using IT Service Providers have the option to carry on using their existing BT Gateway and BT Eco repair and still benefit from IT’s low prices so nothing changes from BT to IT Wholesale Services. Services Providers can also choose to use the IT automotive Gateways, which is simpler than BT to place orders.

Additional to the above IT offers a full technical support, billing, white label products and ongoing training for the duration of the contract, including on-site management facilities.


Tony Brown (SMO) says that the competitively priced package has received an exciting response since its launch over 3 years ago, attracting over three thousand enquiries from dealer channel, resellers and existing BT Service Providers. IT aims to be the most competitively priced telecom operator in the UK whether customers are dealing with business or residential customers, and will expand its current line rental and call offering to later include Internet and Mobile packages.

The technical quality of IT's telephone lines are as good as that provided by BT. Line maintenance is provided by BT. Apart from price, IT's strength will be its ability to provide a first-class customer service, where a customer can obtain an immediate response to a query or service request.

Telecom companies in the past have performed extremely poorly on customer services, where customers often have to wait an eternity waiting to be connected to the correct department. We at IT understand these problems that our Services Providers are facing on a day-to-day basis and have put everything into place to help make things easy to run and with no headaches.

At IT, with one quick call we can deal with all a customers service requirements and all SP’s have a semi-live on-line service at a touch of button operation control to the IT’s switches giving them direct control over their existing customers within minutes.

Further details of the IT Wholesale line rental, please contact us on 0800 1 44 44 66 or visit www.itplc.com.