Global Crossing Peers VOIP

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC - News) has introduced to carrier customers its VoIP Community Peering service, an industry-changing feature of the company's VoIP Outbound Service. This innovative service gives carriers the ability to more easily offer their business customers high-quality, end-to-end IP connectivity to support their end-users' IP applications and other advanced converged IP services.

Global Crossing VoIP Community Peering(TM) has been available to enterprise customers since June 2006. By introducing the service for carriers, Global Crossing is enabling them to more easily predict their costs, potentially attain higher margins on their Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, and offer flat-rate cost models to their end users.

"As an industry leader in providing VoIP services for its carrier customers, Global Crossing is constantly innovating to deliver all the advantages of IP convergence," said Anthony Christie, Global Crossing's chief marketing officer. "Through Carrier VoIP Community Peering, Global Crossing is taking a step toward direct peering arrangements that will deliver high- performance, end-to-end IP connectivity. This service also establishes a perfect starting point for customers to begin developing an industry-wide VoIP peering solution."

Global Crossing Carrier VoIP Community Peering applies to all VoIP Local Service numbers on the Global Crossing network, including numbers provisioned within a carrier's network, to other carriers, and to any Global Crossing enterprise customer. This delivers the end-to-end quality of an all-IP connection and enables a lower, more predictable cost structure.

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