Press Room

London, Thursday - 11th of February 2010

Telappliant Aastra, will be exhibiting at the Unified Communications Exhibition 2010, from the 10th-11th March, at London, Olympia.

The Unified Communications Exhibition is the UK's leading Business Enterprise Communications Event and is a "must attend" for anyone looking for Collaboration, Mobile, Visual or Voice Solutions.

Over two days, it brings together the leading companies and thinkers in the field and shows how Unified Communications can enable people to do more in the environment they are already familiar with.

Telappliant is a leading Internet Telephony solutions service provider and is committed to providing innovative, cost-effective business VoIP solutions to its customers. They aim to provide their customers with value-added services and continue to develop and deliver innovative, high quality VoIP solutions by leveraging their expertise in Internet Telephony.

As a leading global enterprise communications provider, Aastra delivers business communication solutions that truly shine above the rest. Entirely dedicated to enterprise communications, Aastra offers one of the most complete portfolios of unified communications solutions individually tailored to satisfy its customers' requirements.

To visit Telappliant and Aastra at stand 603 at UC Expo '10, you can register for free here.

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London, Monday - 14th of December 2009

Telappliant has received the 'Highly Commended' award at the Annual ITSPA Awards 2009 in the Best Business ITSP (SMEs) category. The awards ceremony was held in the Strangers Dining Room of the House of Commons and was hosted by Andrew Miller MP.

This year, technical testing by Epitiro was introduced for the Best Business ITSP (SME) award. Entrants also had to complete written entry forms that were independently reviewed by the ITSPA Awards judges.

Iain Wood, Head of Marketing from Epitiro, said, "We welcomed the challenge of testing some of the award categories and were impressed with the quality and reliability of all the entrants."

The 2009 ITSPA Awards were open to all those in the VoIP space, including those who were not members of ITSPA. For more information on ITSPA or the awards please go to www.itspaawards.org.uk or www.itspa.org.uk.

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London, Wednesday - 2nd of December 2009

Telappliant, one of the UK's leading VoIP solution providers, has been nominated as a finalist for two categories in this year's ITSPA Awards. ITSPA is the UK's industry body for Internet Telephony Service Providers.

Telappliant has been nominated as a finalist in the Best Business ITSP (SMEs) category and its VoIPtalk service has been named as a finalist in the Best Consumer VoIP category.

As one of the first companies to launch VoIP services into the UK market, Telappliant has progressed through the years, focusing on delivering cost effective, highly featured, diverse range of Internet telephony solutions for the small and medium enterprise market.

The Telappliant product portfolio ranges from its own flagship VoIPOffice IP PBX solution to services such as SIP Trunking, worldwide telephone numbers, landline and mobile call plans and high-speed voice optimised broadband. For consumers and SoHo customers, the VoIPtalk service provides a fast, easy way to start benefiting from VoIP technology.

The submission process for both awards included a month of technical testing by the judges. The winners will be announced in the House of Commons Strangers Dining Room where the ITSPA Awards will take place on 10th December 2009.

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London, Tuesday - 30th of June 2009

Leading Internet telephony provider, Telappliant has been nominated for The Best Internet Telephony award for their VoIP service VoIPtalk (www.voiptalk.org) at the 11th Annual UK Internet Industry Awards, hosted by ISPA (www.ispa.org.uk), the Internet Service Providers' Association.

The ISPAs - the UK Internet industry awards - are unique as they are awarded to people and organisations in the industry following rigorous testing and an independent judging process and reflect the broad nature of the internet service provider sector.

Telappliant's VoIPtalk service is one of the largest VoIP networks in the UK, and offers an extensive services and product portfolio, which has been developed and tailored to benefit its customers, enabling them to choose a package or solution that suits them.

VoIPtalk is a feature rich consumer VoIP offering, with features such as voicemail-to-email, time of day forwarding, call divert, inbound number routing, and call plans designed specifically with consumers in mind. All products offer exceptional customer service and value for money.

As part of VoIPtalk's broad nature of service, they also sell VoIP hardware products such as IP phones, adaptors and routers that are compatible with their service yet not locked to it, therefore not restricting consumers in their choice of VoIP service provider.

The winners will be announced on 9th July at a glittering awards ceremony hosted at the Grosvenor Marriott Hotel.

ISPA Secretary General, Nicholas Lansman said, "Each year the ISPAs rewards the UK's top Internet companies in each category after thorough testing and judging of each entrant. I would like to congratulate all of the finalists and look forward to welcoming them to the Awards dinner."

Telappliant CEO, Tan Aksoy said: "To be nominated for the Best Internet Telephony award is fantastic and just goes to prove our dedication to providing a VoIP service that offers both value for money and quality of service". He went on to say "this is what we have always strived for and will continue to do so".

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London, Monday - 9th of March 2009

Telappliant's Speech2Text service is powered by SpinVox, the global leader in voice to content messaging. Combining VoIP with Voice to Text conversion simplifies business communications significantly, improving productivity and efficiency. SpinVox converts voice message audio into digital format, delivering a unified voice message box via Telappliant.

Benefits for business people
Business people can convert downtime to productive time because they don't have to spend time retrieving, listening and re-listening to voicemails to write down vital information. Addresses and telephone numbers are all included in the converted message which is delivered within minutes. Users can sort and prioritise messages easily, staying on top of their communications. The content of every voice message can now be viewed instantly as well as when it was sent and by whom – all seen on screen.

Benefits for the team
Speech2Text enables better collaboration within teams and improved responsiveness to colleagues and clients, resulting in faster decision-making.

It increases workflow efficiency by allowing users to remain fully functional members of their teams whilst in meetings or out of the office. Team members are able to pioritise easily and respond where urgent approvals are required; enabling individuals to continue tasks following an immediate response to a voicemail.

Benefits for enterprise
Telappliant Speech2Text can also support businesses in meeting their compliance obligations by ensuring desktop and mobile voicemails are now in text form and can be shared, stored and searched.

"Telappliant has the business insight that enterprises need and we believe that Speech2Text powered by SpinVox offers flexible, innovative and proven systems to maximise our customers' performance and give them a leading-edge in productivity" says, Tan Aksoy, CEO, Telappliant.

"We've proven that it's at least seven times quicker to read a voicemail message than it is to dial-in and listen to traditional voicemail," says Christina Domecq, CEO and co-founder, SpinVox. "Speech2Text now offers a truly unified mailbox that saves time for individuals and offers enterprises considerable cost savings per employee."

SpinVox recently announced that it has converted more than 100 million voice messages to text in the past two years.

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London, Tuesday - 17th of February 2009

Telappliant will be exhibiting at the Unified Communications Exhibition 2009, from the 11th-12th March, at London, Olympia.

The Unified Communications Expo is more than an event - it is an opportunity for visitors to listen to world-class speakers from vendors, enterprises, analysts and consultants, in five themed seminar theatres.

A leader in Internet Telephony Solutions for Business, Telappliant will present visitors to their stand with an extensive array of products and services needed to break down barriers to efficiently and seamlessly connect customers, employees, partners and suppliers wherever they are and however they stay in touch.

Amongst their portfolio of products Telappliant includes the Aastra range of world class IP telephones and products, as well as Digium’s latest innovation, "Switchvox". Launched as the next generation of Business telephony systems, Switchvox brings Unified Communications to its turnkey PBX platform, resulting in an affordable, easy to set up and simple to maintain PBX.

Also in attendance will be founder and CTO of Digium Mark Spencer, the creator of Asterisk, who will also be one of the key speakers at the event, discussing ‘Unified Developers and Unified Communications’. He will speak of how the widely popular open source software, Asterisk, and open source alternatives are uniquely positioned in the Unified Communications space. His seminar will highlight examples of how open source is not only used in traditional Unified Communications, but non-traditional forms of Unified Communications as well.

To visit Telappliant on stand 406, at the Unified Communication Exhibition 2009, you can register for free here.

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London, Monday - 8th of December 2008

Leading Internet telephony provider, Telappliant, has made the shortlist for both the 'Best business unified solution' award for its VoIPOffice Hosted Edition Package and 'best consumer VoIP' award for its consumer website VoIPtalk, at the ITSPA VoIP Awards 2008.

This is the first ever Internet Telephony Services Providers' Association (ITSPA) awards and they have been set up to reward excellence in the UK VoIP and Unified Communications space. Telappliant is up against the likes of Tesco in both consumer and business categories.

VoIPtalk (www.voiptalk.org) offers voice compression technology that enables 80,000 subscribers' high quality calls, even in the most adverse bandwidth conditions. VoIPtalk is a feature rich consumer VoIP offering with voicemail-to-email, time of day forwarding, automatic top up, call divert and inbound number routing. All products offer exceptional customer service and value for money.

VoIPOffice Hosted Edition Package (www.telappliant.com/e2e-package), made the best business unified solution shortlist for its multitude of advanced features: Call distribution, virtual receptionist, unified messaging, audio conferencing, call recording and monitoring, advanced call statistics, CRM integration capability with Sugar CRM and Microsoft CRM. The service eliminates the need to purchase and maintain expensive office phone hardware, making it an attractive proposition to all businesses.

Winners will be announced at the Awards ceremony, co-hosted by Derek Wyatt MP and Ian Taylor MP, at The House of Commons Members Dining Room on 11th December 2008.

Eli Katz, chairman of ITSPA said: "The purpose of the ITSPA awards 2008 is to foster excellence and to recognise and reward achievement. We look forward to hosting the event and honouring companies who have made a significant contribution to our rapidly developing and innovative UK IP communications industry.

"Tan Aksoy, CEO, Telappliant, said: "To be shortlisted for both these awards is fantastic. The last 12 months has seen no respite in our commitment to providing both our consumer and business customers excellent performance, service delivery and competitive pricing with our VoIP products. We're delighted to reach the shortlists as a glowing endorsement of just how successful Telappliant is."

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London, Friday - 16th of May 2008

Telappliant has launched a new portal that gives channel partners the capability to easily and effectively resell VoIP services to their customer base.

The Insight portal, which is available in co-branded or fully branded versions, will provide the latest information via a customisable modular infrastructure.

Firms can choose from a range of options that are specially designed to meet their business needs. These include modules targeting residential customers, small businesses, call shops, calling cards and the hospitality market.

Tan Aksoy, CEO of Telappliant comments: "Within the next ten years, 90 per cent of telephone calls world-wide will be made over high speed internet links, and we are pleased that we are helping businesses gain access to this ever expanding market."

Insight offers access to a diverse consumer base and ensures cost efficiency with an innovative system usage pricing model. The portal is also supported by a number of business packages, which can be upgraded to encompass 24/7 technical support.

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London, Tuesday - 29th of January 2008

London-based IP specialists see 80 per cent annual increase in sales of Aastra products.

Telappliant has been named 'SIP Handset Distributor of the Year' by communications company, Aastra. Telappliant achieved 80 per cent uplift in sales of Aastra SIP handsets in the last twelve months, largely due to the introduction of Aastra's versatile 5i Series of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) handsets and the increasing demand for Internet Protocol (IP)-based telephony.

'Aastra's SIP phones are market leading products, combining a great set of features with a competitive price. Our customers like their sleek design and the embedded XML browser just adds to their attraction,' said Sunny Singh, Head of Channel Sales at Telappliant.

Tan Aksoy, Telappliant CEO, added: 'We strongly believe in open standard solutions and Aastra is one of the very few companies that were early adopters of the SIP standard. Handsets from Aastra's 5i series exemplify this continued commitment to interoperability as they have been designed to integrate with leading VoIP call server platforms. We now see the SIP standard more widely adopted and offering new innovative solutions, including fixed mobile convergence.'

Anne Warren, Sales Manager for Aastra, said: 'We are very pleased to recognise Telappliant as our top UK SIP Handset Distributor 2007. The company's commitment, support and enthusiasm have really made a difference in the past twelve months. The team's high level of expertise wins customers' trust and helps them to find the best products and solutions for their needs. We look forward to working with them for continued growth in 2008.'

As well as distributing Aastra's SIP handsets, Telappliant offers an exciting portfolio of VoIP services, ranging from its powerful VoIPOffice IP PBX solution to the new Insight multi-services portal, designed for resellers and service providers looking to deliver own-brand solutions into their respective customer bases.

Aastra recently expanded its 5i Series of SIP telephones with the launch of the 51i in the UK and across Europe. With the addition of this smartly featured and keenly priced single-line IP phone, end-users will now have access to one of the most complete portfolio offerings of SIP desktop and wireless phones in the industry.

Aastra's portfolio of standards-based VoIP handsets has been designed to tightly integrate with today's most popular IP platforms. In addition to supporting a wide variety of IP PBX and Softswitch solutions based on the latest SIP standards, Aastra's family of IP products has been specifically tested and/or certified compatible with the platforms such as Asterisk™ / Digium, BroadSoft® and Nortel Networks.

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London, Thursday - 4th of October 2007

Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) communications may have been spreading throughout the business world, but Telappliant is the only VoIP supplier in the UK worthy of recognition, in the opinion of the British Computer Society (BCS).

The London-based internet telephony solutions provider is the only company in the UK VoIP sector to make it into the finals in the Technology Supplier of the Year category at the BCS IT Industry Awards 2007.

With BCS choosing companies from across the IT industry to battle it out for top spot, Telappliant has had to meet high standards of professionalism and excellence in the VoIP field in order to reach the last ten.

"We are extremely pleased to be finalists," said Muhammad Nasim, chief technical officer of Telappliant.

"We have prided ourselves on being experts in VoIP technology, offering the best possible services to our customer base."

Mr Nasim added that the wide range of VoIP options on offer from the company were helping their customers find the right package for them in order to "dramatically enhance their offerings and in a number of cases to radically change their business models".

Whether this will be enough to take home the coveted Technology Supplier of the Year gong is not yet certain, but all will be revealed at the awards ceremony in central London on December 6th.

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