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Sipgate Launches Innovative Business Phone Service
Now, Companies Can Move their Telephony Service to the Cloud

San Francisco, CA (July 20, 2009) – Today, VoIP pioneer sipgate (www.sipgate.com) launched a new “Team Edition” of their US telephony service. The entirely web-based service replaces both phone systems and phone lines, allowing small and mid-size companies to move their corporate phone service to the cloud. sipgate team starts at $2 per user per month, and a 30-day free trial is available.

sipgate team provides each employee with online access to their inbox containing phone logs, faxes, recordings and voicemail messages. Collaboration features like forwards, labels and comments allow coworkers to be more productive. It also allows employees to return calls at the click of a button, or sign and send faxes through a WYSIWYG interface on the company letterhead. Most functions such as call forwarding, call recording, and 3-way calling can be activated with a single click on the interface, making features previously hidden in phone systems accessible for employees and, consequently, businesses more productive.

“Our aim is to make telephone service as easy to use as email,” said Thilo Salmon, CEO of sipgate. “If you can use email, you now know enough to run your company’s corporate telephony system. We think this service will resonate particularly well with entrepreneurial companies and firms that have already realized the benefits from other cloud-based services like hosted CRM or email.”

Each employee stays in control over where to answer calls and even have their VoIP, landline and mobile phones ring in parallel; the call is routed through to whichever handset is picked up first. While on a call, it is simple to bridge-in other callers, transfer the call or even record it. Those employees given administrative privileges can add new users, office locations and blocks of phone numbers at the click of a button, with new additions available to use from the moment ordered. The system has been designed to be simple for administrators to set up and maintain, cutting down the time, effort and cost of traditional telephony systems.

sipgate team offers a rich feature set designed to make companies more productive, collaborative and efficient such as:

• Quick to deploy, manage and use--With an interface similar to Web-based email, it’s simple, fast and intuitive to use. Employees can browse their inbox and outbox for a complete history of voicemail messages, calls, recordings and faxes.
• Save time by letting employees manage their telephony preferences--While administrators have preferred access to add new users, office locations and blocks of phone numbers, employees can manage their own preferences without any further help.
• Promote team collaboration with CRM-like functionality--Calls can be routed to multiple employees simultaneously—such as customer service representatives--and accessed through the Web, where the calls can be tagged and noted with action taken.
• Enhanced Web-fax--Faxes can be sent and received online. Using uploaded letterheads and signatures, employees can send official-looking faxes over the Web and sign them with a click.
• Announcements--Auto-attendants can replay recordings and direct callers based on keyed-in numbers.
• Scalability--There is no limit to the number of phone numbers that can be added to the service. Employees can be added or remove as a business is evolving.

An introductory offer is available to companies with up to one hundred users, and costs from just $2 per user per month and is offered as a one month rolling contract. Team Edition can be set up within minutes and is available as a fully-functional, no-strings-attached, 30-day free trial available at www.sipgate.com/team. No credit card is required for the trial and there is no need to cancel if companies opt to discontinue using the service.

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SIPGATE LAUNCHES DISRUPTIVE FREE PHONE SERVICE TO REPLACE LANDLINES

San Francisco, CA (June 2, 2009) – Today, telecom innovator sipgate is launching a new, free phone service that has the ability to replace most of the nation’s 100 million landlines. The new service, called sipgate one, operates over your Internet connection and offers a fully-featured phone service, complete with a free telephone number, no set-up costs and no monthly charges or minimums.

sipgate is extremely flexible and works with your favorite phone, including standard analog phones, mobile phones or VoIP phones. When using a VoIP phone, calls to other sipgate users are completely free (like Skype) and so is receiving calls on the free U.S. phone number sipgate one comes with (unlike Skype). Calls to the U.S. and Canada are just 1.9¢* per minute.

Unlike traditional phone services, sipgate is completely Web-based, making it accessible through a simple, easy-to-use interface - much like your favorite web-based email service. The interface allows users to call someone back with a single click, divert calls to other landline or mobile phones, and browse their inbox and outbox for a complete history of voicemail messages, calls, recordings and faxes.

At no additional cost, sipgate offers a rich feature set designed to make users’ lives easier and more convenient:

• Need to write down a number while driving? Record any phone conversation by pressing *6
• Want to customize your voicemail? Upload an mp3 Want your calls to follow you? Have your home, office and mobile phone ring in parallel
• Left your mobile phone at home? Simply go online and divert calls to your office line
• Want to talk to friends in an ad-hoc conference? Bridge them with the touch of a button
• Missed calls while on a flight? A list is waiting for you in your email

"There is simply no barrier to people disconnecting their old phone lines anymore. Phone and cable companies have long been pushing voice plans in the region of $25 to $40 per month—which end up being as much as $60 or more with extra charges—and that’s just ridiculous,” said Thilo Salmon, CEO of sipgate. “Even with calls to other landlines and mobile phones, most users will spend less than $5 a month using sipgate one. And for those people only receiving incoming calls on their VoIP phone, the service is completely free."

sipgate is also readying a multi-user edition of the service. This service will be targeted towards innovative small businesses and will not only replace landlines, but also costly and complex local phone systems.

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