AMMAN, Jordan -- Jordan Telecom announces today that it has successfully launched the VoIPoDSL (Voice over IP over DSL) commercial service under the brand name “Livebox”. The Livebox project will provide Jordan Telecom’s residential DSL customers with a high quality double play (voice and data) service at a very affordable cost.

Within its partnership with Jordan Telecom, Alcatel accepted the challenge to integrate and deploy the innovative solution in a very short time schedule. Alcatel was responsible for the overall systems integration for the project including Netcentrex application components.

Jordan Telecom is the first operator in the Middle East to commercially launch double play over broadband. Triple play (voice, data and video) will be available to customers in the near future. Jordan Telecom will be able to offer an outstanding quality of service and performance to customers, compared to the low quality services currently available on the Internet. Through this deployment, Jordan Telecom is providing Jordanian citizens with state of art telecom services at affordable prices while increasing the value of the legacy fixed network to prevent customer churn.

“The move to VoIP, which was made possible by state of the art convergent technology and by the introduction of a new regulatory and licensing regime earlier this year, will extend services available to subscribers, ushering in a new age of convergent voice and Internet services. In a second phase deployment, Jordanians will also benefit from video connectivity,” comments Luc Savage, Chief Strategy Officer at Jordan Telecom. “Livebox promises to underpin new, globally competitive service rates for business and residential users alike based on ADSL development. VoIP will also stimulate Jordan’s potential as a competitive call centre location as traffic becomes cheaper.”

Jordan Telecom