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Alteva Announces Cuthbert New CEO

New Successor Comes at a Time of Tremendous Growth

PHILADELPHIA, PA – August 31, 2010 – Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider, headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced the appointment of David Cuthbert as CEO. With over twelve years of operational management and leadership experience, Cuthbert’s focus will be leading Alteva through its industry leading growth. Cuthbert joined Alteva in 2006 as the COO and has developed scalable processes through automation and employee development. The Founder of Alteva, Chairman and former CEO, William Bumbernick, will focus on the innovative direction of the company as Chief Innovation Officer.

“Mr. Cuthbert is really the right choice to manage and lead Alteva to the next level,” Bumbernick says. “His leadership style combined with his knowledge and acumen of our industry will ensure both his success and that of our company.”

Cuthbert is a graduate more

IntelePeer Ranks No.991 on the 2010 Inc. 5000 with Three-Year Sales Growth of 301%

SAN MATEO, Calif. – August 30, 2010 – Inc. magazine today ranked IntelePeer Inc., a leader in the delivery of communications via cloud-based infrastructure, No.991 on its fourth annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Music website Pandora, convenience store chain 7-Eleven, Brooklyn Brewery, and Radio Flyer, maker of the iconic children’s red wagon, are among the prominent brands featured on this year’s list.

“The leaders of the companies on this year’s Inc. 5000 have figured out how to grow their businesses during the longest recession since the Great Depression,” said Inc. president Bob LaPointe. “The 2010 Inc. 5000 showcases a particularly hardy group of entrepreneurs.”

IntelePeer delivers hosted services for more

More than 15,000 new FriendCaller members a day making browser-based calls through a link in a blink

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., DORTMUND, Germany and TAIPEI, Taiwan, Aug. 26 — C2Call (http://www.c2call.com/) announced today that its FriendCaller (http://www.friendcaller.com/) service has reached the 1 million user mark in 12 months, as it lets anyone make a free call by clicking a link sent via email, IM, social networks, blog or websites. With more than a half million new users turning to the service in the last two months, FriendCaller has maintained its ranking in the top 25 free social networking apps on iTunes since June.

FriendCaller is the first browser-based Internet phone solution that can turn emails, social networks and any Internet-ready device, such as the iPod Touch or iPad, into a phone – without the need to download, register or exchange user IDs. The service lets anyone make a call more

CHICAGO – Nitel, Inc., a nationally recognized provider of telecommunications network services, has been named to the Inc. 500/5000 listing of America’s leaders in entrepreneurial growth for the second consecutive year.
The noteworthy achievement solidifies Nitel’s position as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States. Nitel is ranked No. 980 overall in the 2010 Inc. 500/5000. Nitel’s ranking is based on the company’s extraordinary revenue growth of 305 percent from 2006-2009. The full listing will appear in the magazine’s special September 2010 Inc. 500/5000 issue.
Earlier this summer, Nitel was ranked No. 5 on the Crain’s Fast 50 list of the fastest-growing companies in the greater Chicago area by Crain’s Chicago Business, also for the second consecutive year. In addition, Chief Executive Officer Rick Stern was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award for the Midwest, the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. more

DALLAS, Aug. 24 — AT&T* announced today that new and existing virtual private network (VPN) customers may add VoIP service to the network solution delivered over AT&T’s global network cloud.

This converged solution will enable customers to consolidate their separate voice and data networks, reduce equipment and maintenance costs, and simplify migrating these complimentary capabilities to a common, secure infrastructure. By migrating to a common infrastructure, customers are able to take advantage of additional applications as AT&T makes them available, such as unified communications capabilities.

The AT&T VoIP portfolio is also certified for interoperability with leading industry providers of IP-PBX systems, such as SIP Trunking services qualified for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, providing support for businesses planning to incorporate a comprehensive unified communications solution in the future.

AT&T VoIP portfolio is also certified for interoperability with leading industry providers of IP-PBX systems, including Microsoft, more

Equity investment and debt financing totaling $20 million in funding to fuel further market expansion

DALLAS and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Aug. 19, 2010 – Fixed-wireless companies Airband Communications and Sparkplug Communications today announced they have merged, creating the largest fixed-wireless company for businesses in the U.S., providing a full suite of voice and data services in 17 markets.

Airband and Sparkplug customers will continue to benefit from the flexible and highly scalable voice and data services delivered over the company’s wholly owned, fixed-wireless last-mile network which bypasses the wireline local loop, thereby creating cost savings for business customers. Airband delivers data services from 1 Mbps to over GigE speeds and a full suite of VoIP services including hosted VoIP and VoIP/SIP trunking.

The combined company operates as Airband Communications, headquartered in Dallas. Michael Ruley, formerly CEO of Sparkplug, becomes CEO of Airband. Tim Kinnear, formerly CEO of more

Wireless Voice Core Market Soft Ahead of IMS

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 18 — Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for information about the networking and telecommunications industries, reported that wireline voice core equipment revenues will experience low, single-digit percentage growth through 2014, partly as a result of an increase in Voice-over-Broadband, or VoBB, subscribers. As government initiatives drive the adoption of high-speed Internet connections to homes and small businesses, VoBB subscribers are forecast to reach 309 million in 2014, a CAGR of 27 percent since 2009.

“The expected increase in VoBB subscribers, combined with the need of those subscribers to communicate with legacy circuit-switched voice services subscribers, will drive a modest increase in media gateway channel shipments,” said Greg Collins, Vice President at Dell’Oro Group. “This growth in channel shipments, however, will be limited as service providers shift to all-IP networks. Price declines are also expected to thwart more

TEL AVIV, Israel, August 11, 2010 — RADCOM Ltd. (NASDAQ: RDCM), a leading network Service Assurance provider, today announced that a major VoIP operator in North America purchased RADCOM’s NGN (Next Generation Networks) Service Assurance solution.

This VoIP operator supplies high-quality voice and messaging services over broadband networks. With a few million subscribers, providing Quality of Service, real time customer experience and troubleshooting subscriber experience are of essential importance to such an operator, in order to satisfy and retain its customers.
In order to monitor customer experience on its network, the VoIP operator purchased RADCOM’s Service Assurance System with VoIP probes as well as the QTrace online call trace tool. The QTrace online call trace tool will enable the VoIP operator to see the total correlated call, end-to-end over multiple sites, multiple protocols and multi-legs. RADCOM was the only company who could supply the VoIP operator with a solution more

Microsoft UC Partner of the Year Will Exclusively Resell IntelePeer’s SIP Trunking and Registry Services for On-Premise Installations
of Microsoft Office Communications Server

SAN MATEO, Calif. – August 10, 2010 – IntelePeer Inc., a leader in the delivery of communications via cloud-based infrastructure, today announced an agreement to serve as an exclusive provider of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking for Enabling Technologies Corp.’s Unified Communications (UC) deployments. Enabling Technologies, Microsoft UC Partner of the Year for the past two years, will exclusively resell IntelePeer’s SIP trunking services to provide business-class voice connections for its Microsoft Office Communications Server deployments across the United States.

“Our tremendous growth is driven by both the dramatic cost savings and streamlined communications experience made possible by Microsoft-based Unified Communications solutions,” said Bill Vollerthum, president, Enabling Technologies. “We are excited to partner with IntelePeer to offer their premium quality SIP trunking connections combined more

FORT MYERS, FL–Aug. 8, 2010–James A. Dwyer, Jr., 73, a visionary and serial entrepreneur who was instrumental in launching the cellular telecommunications industry worldwide, passed away Friday evening at his home in Fort Myers, Florida, after an extended illness. Born Dec. 31, 1936, in Woodside, Queens, New York City, he is survived by his wife, Nancy, as well as 12 children and 15 grandchildren. Funeral services are scheduled for 11:00 am Eastern time, Thurs., Aug. 12, at Church of the Resurrection of our Lord in Fort Myers.

One of the founding fathers of the cellular business worldwide, Mr. Dwyer was a lawyer and salesman best known for starting early cellular systems in several top U.S. markets and working with colleagues and competitors to build a strong base for the young industry. American Cellular Telephone Corp., the system he launched in more