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19-508: It was founded by telephone companies ( Belgacom , BT , Deutsche Telekom , France Telecom , KPN , Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Swiss Telecom, Telenor , Telecom Italia and Teliasonera ) in December 2004. Several manufacturers such as ADB, Devolo , Huawei , Ikanos Communications , Intel , Lantiq , SoftAtHome or ZTE also joined the alliance. HGI's aims included: HGI also built on work of other standards bodies such as

38-503: A $ 1.4 billion investment for a 32% stake in the company, buying shares for $ 75 each. The transaction was completed in August 2000. AOL had expressed an interest in buying all or part of the company but was not agreeable to the price. In August 2000, Jonathan Fram, president of the company, left the company to join eVoice . In September 2000, the company formed Adir Technologies, a joint venture with Cisco Systems . In March 2002,

57-408: A shift in the workplace environment, net2phone launched a native integration into Microsoft Teams, as well as its own video conferencing platform, net2phone Huddle, followed by further integrations into CRM tools such as Salesforce and Zoho and collaboration tools such as Slack. In 2022, net2phone acquired Integra CCS, a Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) provider operating out of Uruguay. UNITE

76-473: A suite of contact center features, including omnichannel support, social media, chatbots, workflow management, and development tools. Huddle is a net2phone’s high-definition video conferencing platform released in April 2020. Huddle conferences are passcode-protected and encrypted. Huddle includes several features including screen sharing, YouTube casting, chat messaging, and a raise hand option. The application

95-434: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Telephone company A telecommunications company is a kind of electronic communications service provider, more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access. Many traditional solely telephone companies now function as internet service providers (ISPs), and

114-648: Is accessible from desktop or mobile device. net2phone AI was released in July 2023 as an add-on service designed to optimize agent and client interactions. Key functionalities include sentiment analysis, automatic call transcription, auto-generated follow-up emails, auto-generated call summaries, AI-generated coaching notes, call analytics, and CRM integrations. net2phone AI is available in multiple languages and integrates with communication or voice platforms that support API webhooks. net2phone offers SIP Trunking services, allowing businesses to merge voice and data into

133-456: Is net2phone's Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) product, which provides businesses with voice, video, chat, text, and integrations. The product offers advanced call features, reporting, analytics, and integrations with popular SaaS tools that can be managed through a web-based interface. net2phone's uContact is a Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platform introduced through their acquisition of Integra in 2022.  uContact features

152-683: The Broadband Forum , Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) and Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) Alliance. The initiative made an agreement with the Telecommunication Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) in 2006. HGI established relations with oneM2M and initiated a transfer of HGI work into oneM2M, especially regarding a Smart Device Template (SDT) specification which

171-604: The United States are also known as local exchange carriers . With the advent of mobile telephony , telecommunications companies now include wireless carriers , or mobile network operators and even satellite providers ( Iridium ). Over time software companies have also evolved to perform telephone services such as: Net2Phone , WhatsApp , and others. In 1913, the Kingsbury Commitment allowed more than 20,000 independent telecommunications companies in

190-513: The dot-com bubble , the company became a public company via an initial public offering , raising $ 81 million. Shares rose 77% on the first day of trading to $ 26 per share. After completion of the IPO, IDT owned 57% of the company. Within a few weeks, the shares increased another 100% in value, to $ 53 per share. In March 2000, in a transaction facilitated by IDT CEO Howard Jonas, a consortium of telecommunications companies led by AT&T announced

209-519: The SMB market. net2phone’s UCaaS initiative was developed by the Company’s management team led by its President, Jonah Fink. Over the next 3 years, net2phone continued to expand its UCaaS offering into Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru leveraging its local infrastructure, communication licenses and local staff all while selling in the respective market’s local currency and language sets. In 2001,

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228-491: The United States to use the long distance trunks of Bell Telephone Company . Net2Phone Zali Ritholtz - Chief Operations Officer Jeffrey Skelton - Chief Technology Officer net2phone is a Cloud Communications provider offering cloud based telephony services to businesses worldwide. The company is a subsidiary of IDT Corporation . net2phone was founded in 1990 by telecom entrepreneur Howard Jonas ,

247-409: The chairman and chief executive officer of net2phone’s parent company, IDT Corporation. The company was an early pioneer in the commercialization of voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) technologies leveraging the global carrier business and infrastructure of IDT and focusing on transitioning businesses and consumers from PSTN, traditional telecom interconnects, to Voice over IP. On July 30, 1999, during

266-564: The company acquired iPing. In 2000, the company acquired Aplio , an internet appliance maker located in San Bruno, California . As Unified Communications demands more than just voice over IP, such as messaging – in January 2017 net2phone acquired Live Ninja, a Miami based provider of a customer-facing messaging and live chat management service. In 2018, net2phone launched an updated version of its communications platform, incorporating

285-424: The company sued Cisco for breach of contract. In February 2002, the company announced 110 layoffs, or 28% of its workforce. In October 2004, Liore Alroy became chief executive officer of the company. On March 13, 2006, IDT Corporation acquired the shares of the company that it did not already own for $ 2.05 per share. In 2015, net2phone began providing Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) targeted to

304-513: The distinction between a telephone company and ISP has tended to disappear completely over time, as the current trend for supplier convergence in the industry develops. Additionally, with advances in technology development, other traditional separate industries such as cable television, Voice-over IP (VoIP) , and satellite providers offer similar competing features as the telephone companies to both residential and businesses leading to further evolution of corporate identity have taken shape. Due to

323-679: The nature of capital expenditure involved in the past, most telecommunications companies were government owned agencies or privately-owned monopolies operated in most countries under close state-regulations. But today there are many private players in most regions of the world, and even most of the government owned companies have been opened up to competition in-line with World Trade Organization (WTO) policy agenda. Historically these government agencies were often referred to, primarily in Europe, as PTTs ( postal, telegraph and telephone services ). Telecommunications companies are common carriers , and in

342-626: The technology and capabilities from the Live Ninja acquisition. Further expansion came in 2019 with the acquisition of Versature, a SaaS-based business communications and hosted VoIP provider serving the Canadian market. In 2020 with the acquisition of RingSouth Europa, a business communications provider headquartered in Murcia, Spain. In 2020, with the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic causing

361-516: Was transferred as ETSI TR 118 522 V2.0.0 (2016-09) HGI closed operations in June 2016, wrapping up according to its statutes, and archiving all specifications for five years. The HGI website and documents were permanently archived on www.archive.org on 21 February 2021. The organisation webpage www.homegatewayinitiative.org is no longer owned and might potentially be taken over by some other organisation in future. This computer networking article

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