[February 27, 2007] Press release Tweet Marco Island Cable Plans on Meeting Vigorous Internet Telephony Demand By Engaging YFonGlobal (News - Alert) YFonGlobal Adds VOIP Phone Service to Cable and Internet Provider Marco Island Cable Washington, D.C. (February 27, 2007) – Marco Island Cable has selected Internet media company and VoIP services provider, YFonGlobal, to create and manage its new telephone service. YFonGlobal will provide complete portable telephony services including voice mail, call routing, and a host of premium services, beginning in March, to Marco Island customers with expansion into other mainland locations shortly following. With the new agreement, Marco Island Cable will be able to provide voice services to its customers utilizing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. Slated for testing starting in early March 2007, Marco Island Cable envisions launching its service to its cable subscribers in the Marco Island and Naples, FL communities. Marco Island Cable announced plans to offer a unique “Follow Me” calling plan, thanks to their agreement with YFonGlobal. The growing cable service provider will be able to allow seasonal residents to use one phone number that works both at their Marco Island winter home, as well their summer home, “up north”. “Our partnership with YFonGlobal will provide our customers a menu of quality services ranging from TV, telephone and cable internet access that many would suspect would only be available in large metropolitan areas," according to Marco Island Cable Company President Bill Gaston. “We are able to preserve the personalized, hands-on customer service that a small, home-town company like ours offers, with the added benefit of delivering leading edge services that our clients have come to expect,” explained Gaston. YFonGlobal is a private brand Internet Protocol (IP) service that utilizes Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, hosted by YFonGlobal, specifically for communications services providers and resellers, including cable service providers. YFonGlobal’s service enables a telecommunications reseller to rapidly deploy and offer their own brand of services, customized to meet their needs, in terms of pricing, networking, and feature-functionality. “We welcome the opportunity to expand Marco Island Cable’s offerings to include delivering a world-class Internet telephony service. The architecture of this solution will put them squarely on par with, or exceed the capability of, mega-size competitors. Our rapid time-to-market provides the company with a competitive Internet telephony offering to meet the rapid demand generated mainly by a technology-oriented, transient Florida homeowner customer,” according to YFonGlobal President and CEO Marian Sabety. “Marco Island Cable represents a typical YFonGlobal private brand program, which now will be able to provide state-of-the-art phone service," said Sabety. ### About YFonGlobal, LLC YFonGlobal, a Washington D.C.-based company, provides Internet media and IP/VoIP services, such as carrier class IP network services, retail VoIP services such as free PC calling, traditional Phone-to-Phone, and Pre-paid Calling services under private brand programs. Using a SIP platform, YFonGlobal can provide customizable VoIP network services. YFonGlobal provides proprietary enterprise level solutions, as well as private brand VoIP services that serve the consumer needs of VoIP providers. For more information about YFonGlobal, LLC, visit www.yfonglobal.com . About Marco Island Cable Marco Island Cable was formed in 1993 and began servicing customers on Marco Island, FL as a SMATV (Satellite Master Antenna TV) System. Marco Island Cable currently serves customers on Marco Island and has immediate plans to expand off the island into mainland Collier County providing traditional cable service, high speed Internet service, digital services including high definition television and VoIP telephone service. For more information, visit www.marcocable.com ### Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) X SIP is the real-time communication protocol for VoIP. SIP is a signaling protocol for Internet conferencing, telephony, presence, events notification (emergency calling) and instant messaging. SIP...more Voice over IP (VoIP) X A real-time communications system that converts voice into digital packets containing media and signaling data that travel over networks using Internet Protocol....more Internet Protocol (IP) X IP stands for Internet Protocol, a data-networking protocol developed throughout the 1980s. It is the established standard protocol for transmitting and receiving data in packets over the Internet. I...more Routing X There are many often too many explanation of routing. Here’s one: Hop-by-Hop Routing - IP Routing - Distributes routing to routers - Networks look/act like trees - Data can traverse many routers ...more [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]