Tesco internet phone users bailed out by Cloud Net VoIP
Posted by Cloud Net on Tue, Apr 06, 2010 @ 05:08 AM
Cloud Net provides alternative Internet Phone for former Tesco VoIP customers
Walsall, 1 April 2010. Cloud Net, the small business VoIP provider, has come to the rescue of thousands of Tesco VoIP (voice over IP) and Talk Wi-Fi users by offering its Cloud Net Connect internet phone service as Tesco closes its VoIP operations at the end of April 2010.
Tesco VoIP customers who have previously purchased a Tesco internet phone and benefited from their cheap international calls and free calls within the Tesco network, will now be able to reap the benefits of Cloud Net's cutting-edge internet phone system. For a fixed fee from £8.50 a month, Cloud Net users gain unlimited, free phone calls to other Cloud Net users, a free IP handset and importantly for the small business users that have started to benefit from VoIP, all the features of a professional switchboard, including call re-direct, call recording, voicemail to email and teleconferencing - all within the fixed monthly fee.
Cloud Net users just pay for calls, at 0.9p per minute to landlines and 9.0p per minute* to mobiles and also benefit from low cost international calls. All Cloud Net calls are rounded to the nearest second rather than the nearest minute making the call as low cost as possible.
Tesco customers switching to Cloud Net's system will also receive a choice of phone numbers from Cloud Net's selection and can be up and running within 48 - 72 hours.
"We disagree with Tesco and believe that VoIP is a sustainable market and take the view of analyst firms such as Point Topic who have identified VoIP as being the best performing industry of the last decade world wide", said David Hill, Chairman of Cloud Net.
"We have invested heavily in our business and consumer VoIP service, and are confident that new Cloud Net customers will find that our Internet Phone service offers the best features and quality currently in the marketplace", added Charles Chance, Managing Director of Cloud Net.
The latest analysis from analysis firm Point Topic reveals that by the end of September 2009 VoIP subscriptions had grown by 15% in the first 3 quarters of the year to pass the 100 million milestone. In the UK alone, there are more than 2,950,000 subscribed VoIP users.**
| | Landline UK | Mobile UK |
| Tariff (up to 4 phones) | 1.2p per minute | 9.5p per minute |
| Standard Tariff (Between 5-20 phones) | 1.0p per minute | 9.2p per minute |
Standard Tariff (Over 21+ phones)
| 0.9p per minute | 9.0p per minute |
**This analysis is taken from Point Topic's latest update to the Broadband Money Makers report IP Telephony. Point Topic includes only verifiable IP-based telephone subscriptions in these statistics. Services like Skype which are softclient (i.e. originating on the PC) and which do not report user numbers but only ‘‘minutes'' of calls are excluded
For further information, please visit, www.cloudnetuk.com, call 01922 21 33 33 or email solutions@cloudnetuk.com
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About Cloud Net
Cloud Net supplies business phone systems to SMEs and start ups with the advantage of no capital expenditure necessary to run a professional PBX and dramatically lower running costs. Cloud Net has developed a dedicated small business VoIP network providing free calls within the network. The company has a happy and growing customer base. Cloud Net is privately financed and started trading in March 2009.
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