Gradwell dot com announces new VoIP call costs; packages for unlimited calls per month provide best-ever value and include one free handset.
Gradwell dot com announces today (6 February 2007) its Spring campaign to reduce the costs of calls made using its UK and international VoIP service.

Subscribers can now opt for the company’s latest £15 per month menu, giving them unlimited calls in the UK. Formerly, subscribers were charged on a basic monthly subscription-plus-calls basis.

And as an extra incentive, one free handset - worth about £130 - comes with the subscription, added Peter Gradwell, MD.

Subscribers calling any of the 35 countries served by Gradwell pay £25 per month for an unlimited number of calls with the free handset also on offer.

We have seen uptake of our VoIP service mushroom in the last 18 months, and are keen to keep the momentum going, commented Peter. Individuals are making more calls than ever before with this package, we are honing our competitiveness, making us one of the leading suppliers in the UK.

The free phone may either be a Siemens cordless IP phone, a Grandstream GXP2000 IP desk phone or a Camrivox adaptor, allowing a traditional analogue handset/fax machine to be used.

Research from a range of UK and international sources in the last three months has shown that the trend to VoIP is as strong as ever, and we trust 2007 will turn out to be as dynamic a year for us as 2006.

“We are pleased with the response we have had to our 2006 offer of full nationwide number portability and, with a new release of our phone service coming on-stream in early Q2 this year we hope to continue our leading position as a high quality, reliable VoIP provider for the UK SME throughout the 12 months to come.

For more details about the services Gradwell offers,
please contact:

Peter Gradwell,
Managing Director - 01225 800800 (www.gradwell.com)

Jack Ozanne,
Full-Media Solutions - 01985 841375 and 07973 770942.

NOTES:
A feature-rich PBX system in available to businesses for a very modest rental cost. With every VoIP number provided by Gradwell, 10 extensions on clients’ virtual PBX are available, with a full range of facilities available: they include - voice menu, extensions for specific people, hunt groups, call forwarding, etc. All this is simply set-up from an online control panel, which also gives you access to detailed call statistics and billing information.
Systems can be configured your system to give whatever impression is sought. For example, if businesses employ associates or employees in other areas of the UK - or even abroad they can be given extensions on the same number, or on their own numbers with the same area code as any business’s head office. No-one will know whether a company has city centre offices, or a virtual office.

Gradwell dot com Ltd: background information

Peter Gradwell has sponsored the creation of www.voip.org.uk. It is a community-led VoIP forum aiming to become the UK’s main reference point for internet telephony.

For two years (April 2002-April 2004) he contributed to the work of Nominet, the think-tank for UK domain name policy. As Chairman of Nominet’s policy advisory board he was instrumental in guiding extensive debate.

He is a member of the Internet Telephony Service Providers Association (ITSPA), the UK trade body that, among other activities, lobbies OFCOM.

Additionally Peter Gradwell is a non-executive director of two firms that focus on hosting, connectivity and collocation: NewNet plc and Loud-n-Clear Limited.

In Summer 2006 Peter was elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society one of the BCS’s youngest-ever Fellows and was recognised in the Telegraph (Feb 2007) as one of the changing faces of IT.

His current studies for a PhD at the University of Bath in digital settlement systems comprise an analysis of the use of auctions to manage and procure resources via agent computer networks, known as The Grid. Auctions are an excellent way of managing resources on a big computer network, comments Peter.

Definition of VoIP:
VoIP is hardware and software that enables people to make telephone calls over the internet. Voice signals are converted to packets of data, and are transmitted on shared/public lines to avoid the charges raised on traditional, public-switched telephone networks.

VoIP can be delivered via microphone and computer speakers; IP telephones or VoIP boxes can also be used, enabling normal normal telephones handsets.

6 February 2007