Roshan Selects Arbinet International Voice Services
May 24 2010 - 8:01AM
Marketwired
Arbinet Corporation (NASDAQ: ARBX), a leading
wholesale voice and data telecommunications service provider,
announces today at
International Telecoms Week
(ITW) that
Roshan,
the leading GSM cellular service provider in Afghanistan, has
contracted to utilize Arbinet's the
xchange™
marketplace to buy and sell international voice communications and
PrivateExchange(SM) to facilitate direct interconnects between it
and correspondent carriers and bi-lateral partners.
By utilizing Arbinet's thexchange, Roshan
gains access to a platform where more than 1,100 carriers and
service providers trade, route, manage and settle voice traffic.
Roshan can source high quality routes that allow it to provide its
retail customers with cost-effective international voice services.
It can offer its own routes to the marketplace in an easy and
cost-effective manner. Arbinet's CreditWatch(SM) credit management
and settlement technology, which is backed by third-party
underwriting, guarantees fast, reliable payments for traffic
received.
With PrivateExchange, Roshan can
interconnect directly with corresponding bi-lateral partners over
Arbinet's network. Arbinet will manage routing, billing and
settlements, and provide any necessary TDM or VoIP protocol
conversions. Roshan and its corresponding service provider partners
will negotiate pricing and volume commitments directly between
themselves.
"Arbinet's thexchange and
PrivateExchange services are a key part of
Roshan's strategy to provide high-quality and reliable
telecommunications service to the people of Afghanistan," states
Karim Khoja, chief executive officer, Roshan. "Using Arbinet's
thexchange marketplace to trade traffic gives
Roshan access to a majority of global service providers and
carriers to buy and sell voice traffic. By using PrivateExchange, we will be able to easily develop bi-lateral
routes and send and receive traffic with designated
telecommunications providers. Both these services enable Roshan to
easily and efficiently work with the international marketplace to
provide customers with unmatched quality, reliability and
value."
"We are very pleased with Roshan's selection and utilization of
our voice services," states Dan Powdermaker, Arbinet's Senior Vice
President of Sales and Marketing. "With one interconnect, Roshan
gains access to two unique International Voice Services. In an
industry where most operators are looking for new efficiencies when
delivering international voice services to their end-users,
Arbinet's PrivateExchange and thexchange services give Roshan high-quality voice access
to carriers and service providers across the world with unmatched
flexibility."
Arbinet offers three ways for carriers and service providers to
originate and terminate international voice traffic.
PrivateExchange is an easy to use, low-risk
outsourcing approach that enables service providers to create
virtual direct routes and aggregate existing interconnects.
thexchange is the industry's leading
marketplace for buying and selling voice communications. Arbinet
Carrier Services is a standard wholesale service with no fees, a
single invoice and rate lock. It uses supplier codes in its
wholesale routing plans.
For more information about Arbinet's Carrier Services,
thexchange™, or PrivateExchange(SM), please visit www.arbinet.com or e-mail
sales@arbinet.com.
About Arbinet Arbinet is a leading
provider of international voice and IP solutions to carriers and
service providers globally. With more than 1,100 carriers across
the world connected to Arbinet's network, Arbinet combines global
scale with sophisticated platform intelligence, call routing and
industry leading credit management and settlement capabilities.
Customers and suppliers include many leading fixed line, mobile,
wholesale and VoIP carriers as well as calling card, ISPs and
content providers around the world who buy and sell voice and IP
telecommunications capacity and content. For more information,
please visit www.arbinet.com or call +1.917.320.2000 or email
sales@arbinet.com.
About Roshan Roshan (Telecom Development
Company Afghanistan Ltd) is Afghanistan's leading
telecommunications provider, with coverage in over 230 cities and
towns and approximately 3.6 million active subscribers. Roshan
directly employs more than 1,100 people and provides indirect
employment to more than 30,000 people. Since its inception seven
years ago, Roshan has invested over $450 million in Afghanistan and
is the country's single largest investor and tax payer. Roshan is
deeply committed to Afghanistan's reconstruction and socio-economic
development. The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED),
part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), is a major
shareholder of Roshan and promotes private initiatives in building
economically sound enterprises in the developing world. Also owned
in part by Monaco Telecom International (MTI) and TeliaSonera,
Roshan brings international expertise to Afghanistan and is
committed to the highest standards of network quality and coverage
for the people of Afghanistan.
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