Estel Communications to launch Internet telephony services

NEW DELHI: Estel Communications Pvt. Ltd., a JV between Estel group of India

and Fusion Telecom of USA, will launch its Internet Telephony service in India

this week. Using this service anybody can make an international call either from

any PC or IP telephone in India to any phone (mobile or fixed) anywhere in the

world. The service is extremely flexible and user friendly and works from any

windows based PC or IP phone connected to the Internet via any ISP.

Estel provides both private label services to other ISPs who can brand and

sell it to their customers and retails IP telephony services under its own brand

called Net VOIZ. Private label services are customized for each ISP customer.

Both private label and Net VOIZ services are available under two quality

variants - Standard and Gold.

Gold services utilize Estel's proprietary technology and tier IP network to

provide "near toll quality" services to corporate customers and cyber

cafes connected directly to Estel or Estel's partner ISPs.

Standard services can be used by any consumer connected to the Internet via

any ISP. All Estel's Internet Telephony services are sold and used via prepaid

calling cards. The consumer buys a prepaid calling card from a retail outlet,

logs on to the website URL given on the back of the card where an online dialer

is available. They can enter the PIN and destination number on the dialer and

uses a headset (or PC microphone and speakers) to carry out their conversation.

Net VOIZ is initially available in the denominations of Rs 100, Rs 250, Rs

500 & Rs 1,000. Customized denominations for large customers are also

available. Estel's standard services will be priced between Rs 7- Rs 9 per

minute for consumers for calls to USA and other developed markets.

Prices for other destinations will vary based on cost of terminations. Estel

owns and operates an end to end IP network connecting India to Europe and North

America, with its own IP nodes in Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, London & New

York. Estel currently provides Internet backbone services, high-end corporate

Internet services and IPVPN services.