I have just returned from Aruba where I attended CANTO‘s annual conference. Yes, a business trip to Aruba—friends and family had trouble comprehending that fact. So while the setting was quite beautiful with azure water lapping at the convention center doors, you can take some solace in the fact that I was wearing a jacket...
Earlier this week industry analyst firm Analysys Mason released research revealing that broadband speeds can play an important role in customer retention. While price is important to many, the researchers note that “customers who take higher-speed broadband services are both more satisfied and less likely to churn than those with lower-speed services.” This is not...
A common question for all of us to answer: so, what does your company do? A start-up and early-stage growth company has more explaining to do than normal. Alianza provides a wholesale VoIP solution based on a cloud voice platform. Ok, so what does that mean?
Lindon, Utah – June 25, 2013 – Alianza Inc., the leader in cloud voice platforms, announced today that ViaSat Inc. has selected the company’s VoIP solution to power ViaSat’s newly launched Exede® Voice service. ViaSat turned to Alianza’s turnkey wholesale solution to successfully address market timing, product and cost requirements. Alianza’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) model applied to wholesale voice helps enable service providers to maximize voice profitability and minimize risk.
Yesterday the big 5 U.S. cable operators—Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox and Time Warner Cable—announced a new WiFi service extension that allows their broadband subscribers to access more than 150,000 wireless hotspots across the country. This network was built by the MSOs and they created a common WiFi SSID called CableWiFi to simplify the...
Given the demand for broadband speed and ubiquity, service provider investments are aimed at upgrading data networks. Yet service providers are still getting paid for delivering voice. Voice service revenue is in decline as price competition intensifies with over-the-top providers, and usage patterns change as consumers use multiple modes to communicate. There is money to be made in voice, but the way providers manage and deliver it needs to change.
There may have been a few hairs pulled in corporate boardrooms and many excited cheers coming from consumers in the US today. FreedomPop dropped some disruptive news as announcing a free mobile service covering the big three services: voice, text and data. This new offering includes 500 MBs of 4G data for free, unlimited messaging,...
Hello! Thanks for visiting. This is Discover the Cloud. Today we have launched a new voice about cloud voice. As Alianza’s solution spans many spaces and touches on many themes, we’ll be exploring them all here in Discover the Cloud. Look for coverage on VoIP and IMS infrastructure, software-as-a-service (SaaS), wholesale voice, hosted and outsourced...
Last week Level 3 Communications announced Carrier Cloud Voice, a new wholesale voice solution as part of a partnership arrangement with Alianza.
There is significant momentum taking place with hosted IP voice services, and it’s not just a tool for the SMB market segment. Wholesale hosted IP voice solutions for carriers are on the rise as well and Level 3 is the latest to announce a cloud based voice offer. Their Carrier Cloud Voice solution targets “CLECs, wireless carriers, cable MSOs and telcos” with an outsourced voice solution.
