Fixed Voice Carriers

• Voice business has become a very tough business: volumes are growing, margins are in decline

• Revenue shifts to mobile voice, growing share of VoIP minutes

• Integration of networks and platforms around IP, pointing towards convergence

• Increasing proliferation of providers in your core business and markets

• Cost and efficiency pressure from the change to IP-based next generation networks

• Competition in the value-added services and the innovations fields

• Migration of voice traffic from PSTN networks to IP networks

• Entry into new growing business segments (for example offer VoBB services)

• Reduction of subscriber churn, keeping of voice traffic on your PSTN networks

• Voice is becoming an application and will be sold as such within a bundle of communications and content-based services

• End-user demand is becoming more and more complex – it no longer includes only voice connection or access to the Internet, but also a range of applications from communications, entertainment, and media to community services, and the purchasing of goods. 

• Highest QoS, transparent pricing, time-to-market, real-time business decisions, and automation of repetitive elements in the purchasing and deployment cycle

• Support of latency-sensitive voice traffic (voice traffic is highly sensitive to delay and jitter)

• Easy interfacing between and across legacy voice services and IP-based voice services

• Highly efficient international voice termination

• Successfully deal with fixed/mobile and PSTN-to-VoIP substitution and bridging

• Increase your ability to offer new applications with flexible IP platforms

• Reduce the operational outlay associated with managing international voice termination

• Prepare your business for the future: you need a provider that offers you a successful migration path from PSTN to IP-based voice supporting your special business model

• Develop your voice focused offering towards Internet services, content-based applications

• Deploy new technologies, such as WiFi, to allow your customers some degree of mobility without major investments

• Diversify your offering and add mobility in the FMC field to your service portfolio

• Flexibility (routing, etc)

• You transform yourself into more aggressive and competitive entities

• The advent of IP leaves you with room for development and future growth: value-added services/features such as VoBB, IP-based voice at TDM quality, convergent offerings (voice, video, fixed-to-mobile) 

• Basic services: e.g. Premium Hubbing or ITFS Hubbing, Transport services

• Value-added services: e.g. VoIP Bridging Service

ICSS is a big, highly efficient voice trader,serving a strong traditional customer base. We implement innovative IT Tools, focusing on new voice/VoIP services to bridge the PSTN world to the IP-based one. To obtain more information on what ICSS can for you, please check our comprehensive portfolio, which is designed to match your requirements with best-in-class services.