U4 Announces SIP Trunk Offering

SYRACUSE, Indiana – December 22th, 2008 – “U4 now has SIP Trunking available for immediate use,” said Rich Hays, Marketing Director of U4. “This is the second in a series of VOIP related services U4 is introducing to the market. SIP offers the flexibility demanded in today’s communications. We will be the first to admit that SIP is somewhat of a hard concept to grasp, but think of it as communications crossing land lines, cell phones, and internet connections. It allows you to better control how your voice and data are transmitted from location to location. The clearest statement that can be made is ‘All you need is an internet connection to communicate.’ A brief explanation of SIP follows.”

What is SIP? - SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is a de facto VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) standard that describes the basic signals used to initiate, manage, and terminate communications sessions. For the non-technical, a SIP trunk describes the use of an Internet connection as a replacement for traditional telephone circuits receiving incoming calls and allowing the placement of outgoing calls. Local telephone numbers can be called by people anywhere in the world using the Internet and "SIP trunks." SIP trunk is somewhat a misnomer. SIP Trunks are not really trunks or dedicated circuits at all. Rather, the number of SIP trunks that a business requires is determined by the number of simultaneous calls.
Why is SIP unique? It goes beyond voice. It is the industry-backed control standard for multimedia communications or convergence – voice, data, video, and mobile. Because SIP trunks are not fixed in capacity, they grow rapidly with the needs of the enterprise. In addition, SIP trunks can be delivered anywhere served by sufficient levels of Internet connectivity. This flexibility allows for you to better shape to your communication needs. Features like “Find Me, Follow Me” and Video Phones are simple to set up.
What are the Benefits of SIP Trunking? Location Independence - Traditional voice is attached to a physical location or a piece of equipment. SIP VOIP flexibility allows call routing to any IP address worldwide including home offices, soft phones, cell phones and video phones. If there is a broadband internet connection at the location, a SIP Trunk can be used to handle the communications.
Cost Efficiency - SIP trunks are far more cost effective that traditional TDM circuits. A typical small business could easily save 25% or much more on their monthly communications bill.
Pure IP connection - A SIP Trunk is a VOIP trunk that uses SIP for session control and establishes a pure IP connection. This is important for 3 reasons:
1. The VOIP trunk can handle multi-media (voice, data, video and mobile).
2. The circuit-switched hand-off to the PSTN is not needed – lowering costs:
• Fewer hardware interfaces
• Fewer PSTN circuits
• Fewer hardware interfaces to maintain
3. Direct SIP trunking to IP PBXs and soft switches means no additional hardware to achieve end-to-end VOIP.
4. Direct Inward Dialing (DID) numbers can be provided from virtually any location in North America and a large number of other countries. This permits enterprises to establish a "virtual" presence with incoming calls ringing at a centralized facility.
“When comparing Sip Trunks and VOIP service to land lines, U4 has seen between 40% to 60% savings,” said Hays.

The CEO U4VOIP Special

SYRACUSE, Indiana - December 15th 2008 - Rich Hays, Director of Marketing for U4 announced the CEO U4VOIP Special today. He said, “I thought he was off his rocker, but our CEO said, ‘We are shaking up the VOIP market by offering U4VOIP 500 @ Home for $75 a year. It works out to be $6.25 per month. This is the least expensive VOIP service you will find anywhere.’” Hays continued, “If you need unlimited VOIP, we have it. We even have Video Phone so you can see the people you are talking to.”

“The economy is taking its toll on everyone,” said Ben Plikerd CEO of U4. “We are just beginning to see the effects. I think it will get worse. As a member of this community, I cannot sit back and watch it happen. I felt required to offer a solution to help people through the hard times to come. VOIP is the answer to saving money for people and businesses. I knew if U4 offered a ridiculously low price, people would consider it. Now you, the community, need to take action and find out how much it will help you.”

Bob Brown, Director of Information Technologies at U4, commented, “There are some questions U4 gets asked when we talk to people about U4VOIP. I wanted to take a few moments and answer those. Yes, you can keep your number. It normally takes about 15 days to convert to U4VOIP. You should have a DSL or Cable internet connection. You must have 100k of in and out bound bandwidth per call beyond what you use to surf the internet. If you have one phone line and DSL, U4VOIP would be good for adding a second line.”

“While I hope you will choose U4VOIP,” Plikerd mentioned, “you need to seriously consider the savings’ VOIP has to offer and make the switch.”

U4 Announces Channel Partner Openings

SYRACUSE, Indiana – December 10, 2008 – U4 is announcing 10 new Channel Partner positions. These Channel Partners would be in the lead of developing a network for deploying Sip Trunks, Enterprise Class VOIP, SMB Class VOIP, Residential VOIP Services and VOIP PBXs.

“We are excited with the increase in VOIP usage to be able to offer this opportunity,” Rich Hays, Director of Marketing at U4 said. “Channel Partners will team up with U4 to nationally launch the U4 VOIP platform of services.”

“U4 has been in Business for more than 5 years now and see VOIP becoming the most common method of communication in the next few years,” said Ben Plikerd, President of U4. “We have worked hard to position ourselves and provide services to keep our community and the nation on the leading edge of voice services.”

“Interested Channel Partners should contact the U4Store at 877.562.2584 or submit their contact information to support@email.u4corp.com,” said Customer Service Manager Melanie Shortill.