Global charity adopts new VoIP service

An international charity has installed a new VoIP service throughout its international offices, it has been revealed.

Food for the Hungry, a global Christian relief and development organisation, has deployed 8x8 Inc's VoIP service to allow domestic and overseas volunteers to maintain contact with one another.

"The distributed and dynamic nature of the services we perform dictated a communications platform that could run over a single worldwide network, be quickly activated in new locations and do so without costing a fortune," said Randy Black, senior systems administrator for Food for the Hungry.

"8x8's hosted VoIP solution is ideal for the environment we operate in every day where, even though our organisational structure might change from one hour to the next, we know that our vital communications will remain intact."

Food for the Hungry was founded in 1971 and provides support to crisis-hit countries such as Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Vietnam and Guatemala.