XO Communications Receives 2008 Telephony Innovation Award
- XO Anywhere Named Most Innovative Fixed Mobile Convergence Service for Boosting Employee Performance and Productivity
HERNDON, VA – October 1, 2008 – XO Communications (OTCBB: XOHO) today announced that XO Anywhere, a powerful service from XO that helps improve worker productivity with mobility and unified communications features, has been awarded the 2008 Telephony Innovation Award. XO Anywhere enables employees to turn any phone into their XO IP Flex office phone, providing an ideal solution for companies with mobile and distributed workforces. XO Anywhere was named the Most Innovative Fixed Mobile Convergence Service for providing customers with an easy-to-use tool for increasing employee productivity.
“We’re honored to receive a Telephony Innovation Award for XO Anywhere,” said Nicola Jackson, director of IP and converged services at XO Communications. “Since its launch earlier this year, XO Anywhere has been embraced by our customers as an integral tool for increasing employee performance, while their employees benefit from its ease of use and convenience.”
“I like that XO is recognizing that workers don’t just sit in an office,” said Vince Vittore, program manager with the Yankee Group and a member of the Telephony Innovation Award judging panel. “The best part of this service is that it puts the power in the user’s hands.”
“This is an excellent use of FMC beyond the typical ‘saves money’ approach,” said Danny Briere, CEO of the TeleChoice consultancy, and a member of the Telephony Innovation Award judging panel.
“All of these services have been around for a while, but I have to give it to XO for packaging them all together into a useful mobile service and making it simple to implement, with no CPE upgrade,” said Kevin Fitchard, senior editor with Telephony and lead wireless reporter.
XO Anywhere Mobility Features
As a powerful value-added feature available with XO IP Flex and XO IP Flex with VPN, XO Anywhere bundles a variety of mobility features to help companies improve the productivity of their remote and mobile workers:
- Simultaneous Ring: Allows up to 10 different devices to ring at the same time, connecting the call to the first device that answers. Customers need only one number to be reached wherever they are.
- Remote Office: Enables employees to set up a remote office instantly, make or receive calls from any device, display their office phone number on the caller ID, and charge all calls to the office’s XO service.
- Click to Dial: Provides seamless integration with Microsoft Outlook and web browsers. Users simply select and click on any contact or phone number to make a call.
- Web-Based Tool Bar: Allows users to personally manage all features online at any time.
Telephony’s Innovation Awards are in their second year of recognizing creative service creation and deployment in the telecom service provider space. The awards are open to all service providers including telecom and cable companies, wireless service providers, managed and hosted service providers, ISPs and applications service providers. The awards are judged by members of Telephony’s editorial staff and by guest judges. This year’s guest judging panel included Daniel Briere, CEO of TeleChoice, Vince Vittore, program manager with the Yankee Group and Cindy Whelan, analyst with Current Analysis.
For more information on XO Anywhere, please go to http://www.xo.com/anywhere or call 866-349-0134.
About XO Communications
XO Communications, a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: XOHO), is a leading nationwide provider of advanced communications services and solutions for businesses, enterprises, government, carriers and service providers. Its customers include more than half of the Fortune 500, in addition to leading cable companies, carriers, content providers and mobile network operators. Utilizing its unique combination of high-capacity nationwide and metro networks and broadband wireless capabilities, XO offers customers a broad range of managed voice, data and IP services with proven performance, scalability and value in more than 75 metropolitan markets across the United States. For more information, visit www.xo.com.
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