SOFTBANK BB, JAPAN TELECOM Incorporate Microsoft VoIP Services
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[December 28, 2005]

SOFTBANK BB, JAPAN TELECOM Incorporate Microsoft VoIP Services

TMCnet VoIP Minute Watch Columnist
 
IP phone service carrier SOFTBANK BB Corp. and JAPAN TELECOM CO. LTD. announced on Wednesday that they are currently working with Microsoft Corp. to develop an integrated communications service which combines VoIP, e-mail, Internet access, groupware, presence, instant messaging (IM) and desktop services with network infrastructure. The three companies have formed a partnership in order to offer the combined service to businesses.


 
JAPAN TELECOM plans to couple this integrated communication service with its networking infrastructure and managed network operation to provide its own information communication technologies (ICT) platform service to the corporate market.


 
Linking the Microsoft system for VoIP services with BB Phone's voice platform and JAPAN TELECOM's managed network service will enable small and midsize businesses to integrate enterprise-class communications services, including VoIP services. Microsoft's system bundles hosted versions of Microsoft server products including Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and Windows SharePoint Services with Sylantro Systems Corp.'s Application Feature Server.
 
The companies plan to begin trials of the integrated communications services during spring of 2006.
 
Microsoft has been pretty active in the Internet telephony sector. Indeed, the software giant announced earlier this month that it teamed up with MCI Inc. to eventually launch MCI Web Calling for Windows Live Call, to enable customers to use their PCs to call any phone.
 
The system will be available through Windows Live Messenger, the upcoming successor to MSN Messenger, which has more than 185 million active accounts around the world. The system bundles Windows Live software, VoIP capabilities and MCI's network.
 
SOFTBANK BB Corp.
JAPAN TELECOM
Microsoft Corporation
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit Johanne Torres' columnist page
 
 

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