Global communications software company PortaOne has announced that Ifoon is using its PortaSwitch VoIP billing and subscriber management platform to deliver an array of telecommunication services to VoIP telecoms, businesses, and consumer end-users around the world. 

Ifoon is a diverse European voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services provider. The company’s basic business case is to enable any new operator to start a VoIP service business without any capital investment in equipment and network construction. 

In recent years, the company has diversified, introducing a string of retail VoIP service companies addressing specific countries and customer bases. 

Using PortaSwitch as its core telecommunications and account management software, Belgium based Ifoon claims to have succeeded in virtually every segment of the VoIP services industry, from Singapore to Cameroon.

“For our operator partners, the advantage we offer is the independence to run their businesses so that they are most attractive to their customers. PortaSwitch allows us to do this,” said Satya Mekala, CEO at Ifoon. 

The company’s partners can do routing and rating themselves, Makela said, adding that they can also localize their businesses per country to address the needs of local residents, making them preferable over an unknown Internet entity.

Ifoon selected PortaSwitch due to factors such as stability, scalability and ability to customize services to local market needs. “I have been in the telecom field for a long time, so I wrote a very clear description of what I wanted for Ifoon,” Mekala said. “PortaOne's (News - Alert) platform was very close to the specifications.” 

PortaSwitch’s ability to support a broad range of services, business models, and localized payment systems has given Ifoon a unique advantage in many global markets. 

Designed for telephony service providers, PortaSwitch is a telecommunications services and subscriber management platform. This PortaOne’s flagship product is capable of handling the complete call control, routing, proxying, and converged VoIP billing functions of a diversified digital services company.

Plus, it features a real-time billing system, class 4/5 SIP softswitch, and media applications that delivers converged VoIP billing and provisioning, SIP call control, unified messaging, IP Centrex and hosted IP PBX (News - Alert), callback management, IVRs, conferencing and more.