SIPphone and Xten = Free Telephony

SIPphone and Xten Partner to Offer Free Global Telephone Calls and Conferencing

Thursday December 11, 6:31 am ET
Two Market Leaders Bring Free Telephone Calls and Conferencing to the Masses

SAN DIEGO and BURNABY, British Columbia, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ — SIPphone, Inc., ( www.sipphone.com ) and Xten Networks ( www.xten.com ) today announced that they have joined forces to bring free telephone calls and conferencing to the masses. Xten softphones turn computers into business class telephones and offer unlimited user conferencing at the click of a mouse button. SIPphone delivers a feature-rich and free telephony network, and hassle-free configuration.

Free phone calls and conferencing are the key to delivering true global communication to the general public.

“This partnership eliminates the barriers to entry between consumers and free worldwide calling,” stated Michael Robertson, Founder of SIPphone Inc. “By turning the common PC into a global calling tool and providing customers with free conferencing — an industry first — telecommunications have finally been democratized.”

“The ability to communicate with anyone, anywhere, should be the right of everyone, not just those who can afford it,” stated Erik Lagerway, co-founder and president of Xten Networks Inc. “This new alliance will empower all the world with free voice communications, a novel concept for the incumbents who have made trillions from offering the same services. The next 3 years will dictate how the future of the telephony industry is shaped, due in great part to services like SIPphone.”

SIPphone makes it possible for people to send and receive free calls worldwide using a technology called SIP, for Session Initiation Protocol. To make a SIP call, a supported SIP phone is plugged into a broadband Internet connection, the desired SIP number is dialed, and the call will be connected. All SIP phones come preconfigured with a SIP number (for example: 1-747-474-5000). This number can be shared with anyone with a SIPphone. SIPphones also support caller ID and call-waiting, all at no charge.

Xten’s X-Lite Plus is a business-grade softphone, which delivers the quality of service and features found in a business-class telephone. Conferencing is becoming more commonplace, and Xten softphones offer unlimited conferencing at the click of a button. More of the extensive features found in X-Lite Plus include; 3 lines, hold, transfer, do not disturb, call forwarding, inbound call ignore, inbound call to voicemail, auto-answer, and auto-conference, hot keys, familiar menu system and much more. X-Lite Plus is fully RFC3261 (Session Initiation Protocol — SIP), RTP/RTCP (RFC 1889) and SDP (RFC 2327) compliant.

About SIPphone, Inc.

SIPphone’s goal is to bring the benefit of SIP and free phone calls to a worldwide audience. By offering affordable, plug and play phones and an easy- to-use directory, SIPphone hopes to revolutionize how consumers do voice communications and how they pay for calls. The founder of SIPphone is Michael Robertson who also founded MP3.com (digital music) and Lindows.com (digital delivery of software). SIPphone ( http://www.sipphone.com ) is based in San Diego, California.

About Xten

Xten is a leading provider of award winning, high-quality SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) software. It is Xten’s goal to be the primary choice in softphones and client-side IP communications software for telephony software consumers the world over.

Co-founder and SIP visionary of Xten is Erik Lagerway who also founded Vocalscape (VoIP Enabled eCRM) and author of SIPthat.com (daily SIP rumblings).

For more information, contact:
Cheryl Schwarzman
SIPphone, Inc.
+1.858.587.6700 ext. 241
pr@sipphone.com
http://www.sipphone.com

Mark Bruk, CEO
Xten Networks, Inc.
+1.604.878.0440 ext. 4
mark@xten.com
http://www.xten.com