Wireless last-mile carriers intro VoIP services

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JOANIE WEXLER ON WIRELESS IN THE
ENTERPRISE
08/08/05
Today's focus: Wireless last-mile carriers intro VoIP services

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Today's focus: Wireless last-mile carriers intro VoIP services

By Joanie Wexler

Later this week, facilities-based regional services provider
TransAria intends to formally launch its first broadband
wireless VoIP service, targeted at businesses. In doing so, it
aims to become a dial-tone competitor to the incumbent
local-exchange carrier in its territory, Qwest.

And last week, regional broadband wireless access (BWA) provider
TowerStream announced telco-free VoIP services through a resale
deal with prominent VoIP service provider Vonage
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080205-vonage.html?rl>.
TowerStream serves Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, the greater
Newport and Providence, R.I., areas, New York City and San
Francisco.

Both companies previously offered Internet access; now, they are
also assuming the role of turnkey voice-service provider across
their infrastructures. This is the latest step by BWA providers
to help customers find competitively priced services that can be
up and running faster than traditional telco services.

"We're an alternative choice to the telco," says Todd Graetz,
CTO and vice president of operations at TransAria, which offers
BWA services in 14 markets across five Northwestern states and
Alaska.

The company now offers IP Centrex-like services and single-line
services. They are priced on a per-station basis, depending on
volume, and are available first in the nine markets in which
TransAria competes with Qwest in Montana. TransAria will then
cover all dialing exchanges in its other markets "in the very
near term," Graetz says.

He adds that TransAria has worked with a third party to meet
both FCC and state public utility commission mandates for E-911
emergency calling capabilities.

TowerStream COO Jeff Thompson says his company's VoIP service
"removes the fingerpointing" from troubleshooting a VoIP service
on a telco's last-mile circuit. Telcos providing access links
"typically aren't very enthusiastic about troubleshooting a
Vonage service. We, however, are happy to do so," he says.

TowerStream charges $25 per phone line on top of its Internet
access fees for the VoIP service. Thompson estimates that this
pricing model works out to "30% to 50% less than Verizon's
integrated T-1 rates [for voice and data service], depending on
how far you are from the central office. And you will never
touch legacy phone network."

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To contact: Joanie Wexler

Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology
writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most
of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer
networking industry. She welcomes your comments on the articles
published in this newsletter, as well as your ideas for future
article topics. Reach her at <mailto:joanie@jwexler.com>.
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