14th Apr 2008 07:03
Coms PLC14 April 2008 Coms plc 14 April 2008 Coms plc ("COMS" or "the Company") COMS to exclusively provide internet telephony to the Federation of Small Business's 210,000 members COMS today launches an initiative with The Federation of Small Businesses("FSB"), the largest business network in Britain, to provide members with abusiness class internet telephony service, via the Redstone owned company, FSBTelecom. All 210,000 FSB members will receive an internet telephony account and telephonenumber from COMS, whereby they can contact each other free of charge. Memberscan sign up for the service from within the Members section of the FSB websiteor by going to www.fsb-voip.co.uk, and their new COMS telephone number willautomatically be added to the FSB Members directory. Sandy Harris, FSB Director of Member Services said "As the UK's leading businessorganization it is important that our commercial partners continue to developexciting services for our members and I am sure that FSB VoIP will be a valuableaddition to the business networking opportunities available to our membersthrough our online directory." FSB members will have the opportunity to upgrade their account to the full COMShosted internet telephony service, which will add flexibility and costefficiency to all of their business telecommunications. Terry Martin, CEO of Coms plc said, "This is further evidence that Hosted VoIP(IPCENTREX) has come of age and is relevant to every business in the UK.Furthermore, the backing of the FSB is a tremendous endorsement of COMS and itstelephony system. I look forward to working with FSB Telecom to bring VoIP toall of the 210,000 plus members of the FSB" For further information please contact: Coms plcRichard Bennett, Corporate Development OfficerTel: +44 (0)20 7148 3600 HB CorporateRod Venables, Director Corporate FinanceTel: +44 (0) 207 510 8600 Square1 Consulting LimitedMark Longson, Head of CorporateTel: +44 (0) 207 929 5599 Notes to Editors: About the FSB The FSB is the UK's leading lobbying group, protecting the interests of smallbusiness. The member-based organization was formed in 1974 and has 210,000members, across 33 regions and has 230 branches. For more information on theFSB, visit www.fsb.org.uk About Coms plc Jason Drummond founded Coms plc in 2000, with a vision of using the Internet tocarry and deliver voice telephone calls. Coms.Net is the core service of Coms plc, which provides a VoIP businesstelephony service, enabling business customers to have access tostate-of-the-art VoIP technology. Unlike other industry competitors, the Coms.Net solution is based upon theindustry standard SIP protocol, which enables the widest possible connection ofcustomers, devices and integrated Web 2.0 applications. Coms plc is an OFCOM authorised Public Electronic Communications Network (PECN)and a member of the Internet Telephony Service Providers Association (ITSPA).Coms plc is also listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM market (LSE:COMS). Further information can be found at www.coms.net This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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