[August 29, 2005] Fonality Reaches 500 Reseller Mark with Affordable Small Business Phone System Tweet CULVER CITY, Calif., Aug. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Fonality, the leader in affordable IP-PBX systems for small businesses, today announced it has signed more than 500 reseller partners in 45 countries to distribute and deploy PBXtra, its flagship IP-PBX product that provides enterprise-class phone capabilities at up to 80 percent less cost than traditional PBX offerings. With Fonality, resellers are increasing revenues and customer loyalty, diversifying service offerings and expanding their customer bases. Fonality has installed thousands of lines in hundreds of businesses since it began shipping PBXtra last fall. "You don't have to go phone school anymore to install phone systems. PBXtra's interface is so intuitive that you don't need to know anything about Linux or Asterisk either," said Chris Lyman, Fonality's founder and CEO. "Resellers can configure PBXtra remotely from a web browser and don't have to go onsite, which means they can earn more money in less time." Fonality resellers include traditional key and PBX telephony VARs, local computer consultants and system and network integrators, and large regional and national integrators with hundreds of feet on the street. RegularGuy Computer Consulting, for example, is a Washington state-based technology provider to small and medium size businesses (SMBs) in Colorado, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The company offers a broad range of technology solutions, including phone systems, to its customers. "We selected Fonality as an IP-PBX partner because it allowed us to offer customers a very advanced feature set, including call center functionality, voicemail to email and ACD at an entry level price," said Shem Steppe, Regular Guy's president. "PBXtra is more like a computer system than traditional telephony systems, which means our people already know how to handle it. The centralized management and backup capabilities make it easy to make adds or changes remotely, which allows us to offer better and faster service at a lower cost." Assemble Communications is an international communications company, with offices in North Carolina, Texas, South Africa and Singapore, providing data and voice services to residential and SMB customers. The company wanted to expand its product offerings by providing customers around the globe with an IP-PBX system that included business-class VoIP capabilities. "We evaluated many alternatives and selected Fonality because of its advanced functionality, willingness to work in international markets and ability to provide us with an Assemble-branded product," said Shawn Ring, Assemble's CEO. "With PBXtra, we are expanding our customer base and gaining incremental sales, and our customers are saving money and using new features they have not had with previous phone systems." Another Fonality reseller partner, NTouch, provides telecommunications and information technology products and services for SMBs through computer resellers and IT service providers. The Austin, Texas-based company is establishing a network of reseller partners that will provide PBXtra to small business customers throughout Texas. "For the price point and features, nothing else compares to PBXtra. Plus, the Fonality organization is extremely responsive and accessible in the presales process and when any issues arise; they are genuinely interested in our success," said Neal Carmichael, NTouch's executive vice president. "NTouch's reseller partners are excited about PBXtra because it allows them to get their foot in the door with new customers, and expand revenue and solidify their presence with existing customers." US Network Management, based in West Palm Beach, Fla., is a telecommunications and computer consulting company that provides networking and communications solutions to SMBs. The company has developed a web-based portal called The Virtual Office that provides customers with access to company applications and communications from a web browser. "Our prior phone vendor was too expensive and didn't offer a good solution for providing integrated communications, so we looked at other options and Fonality won out," said Sean Brown, US Network Management's CEO. "PBXtra allows our customers to integrate their phone system into the Virtual Office portal and provide employees with access to internal applications, email, voicemail and softphone support over the web. This synergy between The Virtual Office and PBXtra truly allows for unified real-time data and voice communications across the office, the state or around the world." PBXtra, an Asterisk-based IP-PBX that runs on the Linux platform, is available for $995 for PBXtra Standard Edition server, $2,988 with ten phones. PBXtra Call Center Edition server is $1,995. For more information about PBXtra or becoming a Fonality reseller, visit http://www.fonality.com/ or call 877-366-2548. About Fonality Fonality is the leading provider of affordable IP-PBX systems for small businesses. PBXtra Standard Edition delivers all the advanced features of an enterprise-class phone system at an affordable price, and is so easy to use that it eliminates expensive phone support and configuration costs. PBXtra Call Center Edition provides call center functionality in addition to the PBX functionality found in Standard Edition. PBXtra is deployed to thousands of business users in the U.S. and other countries. Fonality's products are available direct and through a network of more than 500 resellers. Fonality CONTACT: Susan Spencer of Spencer Communications, +1-310-541-5208,[email protected], for Fonality Web site: http://www.fonality.com/ [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]