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Coms Express online store simplifies VoIP for consumer market
Now everyone can take advantage of free calls over the internet with stylish handsets at competitive prices. www.comsexpress.com
21 November 2006 - Coms plc today opens its online store, Coms Express, at www.comsexpress.com. The store offers all the basic equipment required, such as internet enabled handsets and headsets, to start using internet telephony to make low-cost or free calls. Coms Express stocks the widest range of VoIP products and guides customers to select the most appropriate equipment for their use.
Making calls over the Internet uses an application called Voice over Internet Protocol (or VoIP). VoIP means that conversations are transmitted over the internet to other internet users or normal telephone users. Coms operates its own VoIP network and calls are cheaper than traditional services because they are made using the customers existing broadband connection.
Juniper Research estimates the global market for VoIP hardware to be worth £2.8 billion by 2006. This figure will be largely due to individuals and businesses migrating from the existing Public Service Telephone Network (PSTN) to Internet telephony services.
Selecting the right VoIP hardware is the key to cost saving and maximising the benefits of VoIP. Coms Express supplies equipment for use with open standard VoIP services and proprietary services such as Skype. Coms Express has been set up to help guide customers through the process and features hints and tips to help first time users set up their service.
"We have selected the most reliable and quality hardware on the market, to sell through our online retail store. These products will help people to use the internet to make cheap and free calls. The internet based telephone call service from Coms is set to dramatically change telephone pricing and give the mobile operators a run for their money." says Terry Martin, CEO of Coms.
"As well as our business customers we are seeing significant take up from home users because our products are so easy to use. Customers can choose a microphone that plugs directly into their PC or MAC, or a dual phone that automatically locates and hops onto wireless networks at home or on the move," said Richard Bennett, commercial development director at Coms.
Coms Express puts an end to expensive phone and mobile roaming charges when calling from overseas
The Pirelli DP-L10 is a combined GSM WiFi phone is deigned to be portable and can therefore be carried anywhere, even abroad.
This phone has the ability to automatically search for, and connect to, any WiFi access point, whether it be at work, at home, a hotel or at a local internet Cafe.
It costs just £199 and can be delivered within seven days from www.comsexpress.com. |
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More from the Coms Express online store
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If people prefer to use a headset instead of speakers to make calls over their home or office broadband connection, the Audioswitcher could be a very useful gadget.
Installed in seconds, this desk top audio PC headset speaker switch brings an end to scrabbling around on the floor looking for the right wires to swap. Just press a button on the device and calls are routed through the headset instead.
It costs just £13.98 and can be delivered within seven days from www.comsexpress.com. |
Coms Express stocks products from both leading and specialist manufacturers in the VoIP industry such as:
- Terminal Adapters to connect home phones to broadband routers
- USB phone handsets for use with computers
- WiFi and and GSM/WiFi handsets for mobile users
- PBX connectors
- Routers, phone adapters and cables
About Coms
Coms was founded by Jason Drummond in 2000 with the vision of using the Internet to carry and deliver voice telephone calls. Voice over IP (VoIP) is changing the way consumers and businesses make and receive their telephone calls. Coms offers a low-cost VoIP service that can be combined with services provided by broadband Internet suppliers to make and receive telephone calls. Coms subscribers can make high quality calls over the Internet wherever a high-speed Internet connection is available, including in wireless hotspot as they are allocated their own location free unique user number. Subscription is available in a range of packages.
See www.coms.com for more information.
Coms is an Ofcom authorised Public Electronic Communications Network (PECN) and a member of the Internet Telephony Service Providers Association (ITSPA).
Coms is listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM market (LSE:COMS)
Contact
Midnight Communications
Gemma Craven - gemmac@midnight.co.uk +44 (0)1273 666200
Georgina Frith - george@midnight.co.uk +44 (0)1273 666200
Coms plc
Richard Bennett - rb@coms.com +44 (0)7966 388 374
