[March 31, 2003]

VoIP Council Launches With Major Industry Support

The voice-over-IP industry's association and activist organization, the International VoIP Council, has officially launched. Tasked with the generation and dissemination of the messages surrounding enhanced communications, the Council will serve as the unified, worldwide "voice" for VoIP within the business, consumer and technology communities, and be the international organization representing all elements of IP telecommunications. Founded by CommuniTech President and CEO, Neal Shact, the Council has brought together several of the industry's most well known companies in a cohesive effort to further Voice-Over-IP.

VoIP technology has made significant progress since being introduced in the mid 1990's. With the widespread adoption of the Internet in both the private and public sectors, the infrastructure on which VoIP is driven has vastly improved, and subsequently, has made the technology both cost effective and reliable.

"The last two years has been an acid test. The industry has worked very hard to deliver high quality products and services that help lower operating costs - the 'free' model associated with low quality is gone," said International VoIP Council Founder, Neal Shact. "The mission of the Council is to get that message out and educate the public on the many benefits that VoIP delivers."

"As VoIP has gone from a new technology in its infancy to a state-of-the-art, mature, reliable communications platform, the International VoIP Council will be a vital resource for industry leaders to help them succeed and take that jump to the next level," said Alan Knitowski, Vice Chairman, International Packet Communications Consortium, formerly known as the International Softswitch Consortium. "As Vice Chairman of the IPCC, I am ecstatic about our two groups working together to expand the mass market appeal of enhanced Internet communications, and what that means to the industry."

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