XO Communications VoIP Traffic Exceeds More than 1.8 Billion Minutes in Third Quarter of 2005
October 10 2005 - 9:02AM
PR Newswire (US)
RESTON, Va., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XO Communications,
Inc. (OTC:XOCM.OB) (BULLETIN BOARD: XOCM.OB) today announced that
it carried more than 1.8 billion minutes of voice over Internet
Protocol (VoIP) traffic across its national IP network in the third
quarter of 2005. VoIP traffic grew by 17 percent during the third
quarter due to an increased usage of XO's commercial and wholesale
VoIP solutions, demonstrating the quality and reliability of
delivering voice services over an all IP environment. "The volume
of VoIP traffic across the XO network continues to grow as we
expand and enhance our VoIP offerings for businesses and service
providers," said Carl Grivner, CEO of XO Communications. "With our
national IP network and softswitch platform, XO is uniquely
positioned to offer our customers reliable, high-quality voice
services with the efficiencies provided by an all-IP
infrastructure." XO offers a broad suite of commercial and
wholesale VoIP solutions over an advanced softswitch IP network
platform powered by Sonus Networks and Juniper Networks that routes
both traditional circuit-switched voice traffic and packet-based
VoIP traffic across the XO national IP network. With this
infrastructure, XO can support customers that continue to use time
division multiplexing (TDM) technology and customers that have
migrated to more advanced, IP-based voice technology. By managing
the VoIP platform over its private IP network, XO delivers
customers' voice traffic of the same quality and reliability of
traditional telephone networks by avoiding the congestion and
delays of the public Internet. For carriers and service providers,
XO offers a suite of wholesale voice services including wholesale
local voice, long distance termination, multi-market local inbound
calling, and VoIP termination services. For business customers, XO
offers a wide range of voice services including local voice,
dedicated and switched long distance, interactive voice response,
and its award-winning VoIP services bundle, XOptions Flex. For more
information about XO's services for businesses, carriers and
service providers, contact an XO sales representative by calling
(866) 963-9696. About XO Communications XO Communications is a
leading provider of national and local telecommunications services
to businesses, large enterprises and telecommunications companies.
XO offers a complete portfolio of services, including local and
long distance voice, dedicated Internet access, private networking,
data transport, and Web hosting services as well as bundled voice
and Internet solutions. XO provides these services over an
advanced, national facilities-based IP network and serves more than
70 metropolitan markets across the United States. For more
information, visit http://www.xo.com/. THE STATEMENTS CONTAINED IN
THIS RELEASE THAT ARE NOT HISTORICAL FACTS ARE "FORWARD-LOOKING
STATEMENTS" (AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN THE PRIVATE SECURITIES
LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995). THESE STATEMENTS INCLUDE THOSE
DESCRIBING XO'S EXPECTED FUTURE BUSINESS AND NETWORK OPERATIONS AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS, XO'S ABILITY TO CONTINUE TO ACHIEVE
PROJECTED SYNERGIES AND REVENUE FROM THE ACQUISITION OF
ALLEGIANCE'S ASSETS, XO'S ABILITY TO INCREASE SALES, XO'S ABILITY
TO CONTINUE TO IMPLEMENT EFFECTIVE COST CONTAINMENT MEASURES, AND
XO'S ABILITY TO MITIGATE THE EFFECTS OF REGULATIONS RECENTLY
ADOPTED BY THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION. SUCH STATEMENTS
ARE BASED ON CURRENT EXPECTATIONS BUT ARE SUBJECT TO A NUMBER OF
BOTH KNOWN AND UNKNOWN RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES THAT COULD CAUSE
ACTUAL RESULTS, PERFORMANCE, AND/OR ACHIEVEMENTS OF XO TO DIFFER
MATERIALLY FROM ANY FUTURE RESULTS, PERFORMANCE, AND/OR
ACHIEVEMENTS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED BY THE FORWARD-LOOKING
STATEMENTS. MANAGEMENT CAUTIONS THE READER THAT THESE
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS ARE ONLY PREDICTIONS AND ARE SUBJECT TO
RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES AND ACTUAL RESULTS MAY DIFFER MATERIALLY
FROM THOSE INDICATED IN THE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AS A RESULT
OF A NUMBER OF FACTORS. THESE FACTORS INCLUDE, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
THOSE RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES DESCRIBED FROM TIME TO TIME IN THE
REPORTS FILED BY XO COMMUNICATIONS, INC. WITH THE SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION, INCLUDING ITS ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K FOR
THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2004 AND ITS QUARTERLY REPORTS ON FORM
10-Q. XO UNDERTAKES NO OBLIGATION TO UPDATE ANY FORWARD-LOOKING
STATEMENTS. DATASOURCE: XO Communications, Inc. CONTACT: Chad
Couser of XO Communications, +1-703-547-2746, Web site:
http://www.xo.com/
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