Adoption of residential IP telephony is growing rapidly, whether as a standard primary line service or as an alternative secondary line option. DIGITALK’s Broadband Telephony enables a broadband service provider or cable operator to easily bundle voice communications with their broadband package or for an alternative service provider to offer a highly competitive service. DIGITALK's Broadband Telephony is a complete end to end service-ready solution enabling a full residential telephony service with the added benefits of internet calling and value-added advanced service features, such as integrated voicemail.

BENEFITS

DIGITALK’s Broadband Telephony application offers service providers the ability to very rapidly roll out a highly competitive residential telephony service with the platform features, scalability and support to enable significant investment returns. Some of the benefits of DIGITALK’s solution are:

• Generate incremental revenues over broadband internet access, quickly and easily
• Compete out of territory with value-added communications services
• Rapid market entry based on a service-ready application
• Maximize business opportunities with wholesale service offer
• Target specific market segments with innovative pricing and promotions
• Complete network solution with integral voicemail to minimize capital investments
• Proven scalability to meet rapid customer and usage growth
• Customer web self-care to minimize operations overheads
• Based on open standards to enable integration with a very wide variety of customer equipment solutions

FEATURES

Supported on the DIGITALK Multiservice Platform, Broadband Telephony can be offered directly as a retail service and also as a wholesale product to gain maximal market penetration with multiple service partners. All features of DIGITALK Broadband Telephony can be managed by the subscriber using web self-care, which is fully brandable by the service provider. Broadband Telephony service features include:

• Off-net calling with standard E.164 telephone number
• On-net calling with optional free or lower call rates
• Single user or multi-user (e.g. family, very small business) service options
• Voicemail with personalised greeting
• Voicemail to email
• Message waiting indication
• Caller screening
• Call barring
• Configurable caller identity presentation and restriction
• Call forwarding and diversion
• Integrated web phone for immediate service usage without software / hardware installation

The DIGITALK Multiservice Platform enables the following charging and payments features to target specific markets or to offer attractive promotions:

• Pre- or post-paid charging and balance management
• Bundled minutes, calls and monetary values
• Friends and family frequent caller options
• Subscription charges - per account, user and E.164 number
• Secure on-line payments

Additionally, because Broadband Telephony is based on the Multiservice Platform, it can exploit its multi-service capabilities by being combined, for example, with Prepaid Residential services such as 1xxx indirect access or callback to allow users to exploit cheap or even free calling while off-net as well as on-net.