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Fionda Selects CommPartners to Deliver Wholesale VoIP Services; Alliance Provides Customers With Robust Solutions & Cost Savings

Posted on: Tuesday, 24 May 2005, 15:07 CDT

Fionda, the leading provider of technology tools and consumer communication solutions to the direct-selling and affinity industries, today announced that it has selected CommPartners, an IP-based network operator and telephony services and solutions provider, to be the network provider for its recently launched FonVantage broadband phone service. The FonVantage program offers VoIP services to residential and business customers.

Fionda's turnkey solutions include a portfolio of local & long-distance phone service, Internet connectivity, wireless, best in class personal Web pages and unified communication services which seamlessly integrate into the client's existing business and product lines to create customer retention programs and new profit centers. Under terms of this alliance, Fionda will utilize CommPartners' VoIP services to offer its customer base with enhanced voice solutions and services. This partnership with CommPartners will enable Fionda to deploy and support VoIP solutions to its customers and leverage existing IP-based customer connections to deliver robust telephony communications solutions at significant cost savings to customers, establishing additional revenue streams and enhancing customer loyalty.

The CommPartners solution includes CommPartners Management System (CMS) proprietary OSS platform for automated provisioning, billing, user interface and back office support capabilities, auto attendant, and four digit dialing between offices. CommPartners provides VoIP facilitation services such as Subscriber Endpoint Control, Connectivity to the Public Switched Telephone Network ("PSTN"), Long Distance services, and Subscriber Management. Service providers can take advantage of all or any of these VoIP facilitation services, depending upon their existing network investments and VoIP requirements.

Fionda's communications solutions are a proven catalyst for both customer retention and company sales growth. Fionda's unique approach also provides their clients with substantial sources of ongoing residual income. Fionda's product offering includes programs and services from some of the nations largest telecom and Internet carriers providing its revolutionary and proprietary communication and technology solutions to an installed customer base of thousands of independent businesses in the direct-selling and affinity industry.

"We have been evaluating VoIP services to deliver to our customers, and found CommPartners' network offered the most robust telephony and billing management solutions available," said Rick Stambaugh, President of Fionda. "This partnership is an important strategic step in enabling Fionda to provide our customers with the best offerings to meet their specific needs."

"Fionda is clearly a leader in the reseller market, as evidenced by its long-standing partnership with the largest telecom and Internet carriers today," said Dave Clark, co-founder and chief executive officer of CommPartners. "We are very excited to enter this strategic partnership, as the alliance will expand residential and business VoIP service to a wider customer base across the U.S."

About CommPartners

CommPartners, Inc. was formed to "Enable the VoIP Promise" by offering hosted Voice over Internet Protocol services, including IP Centrex, hosted PBX and conferencing functionality and IP to PSTN connectivity to broadband and service providers. CommPartners' hosted VoIP services are designed for Internet Service Providers (wireline and wireless), IT Integrators, Multiple Service Organizations, Private Cable Operators, Independent Operating Companies, Fiber-To-The-Home and Overbuilding Entities. Founded and operated by industry veterans, CommPartners has a belief in optimizing packet-based protocols in a distributed architecture to facilitate VoIP connectivity and service offerings for broadband and service providers. For more information, call 702-367-VOIP (8647) or visit CommPartners' website at www.commpartners.us.

About The Fionda Group

Founded in 1996, Fionda is a preferred 'single source' provider of technology and communications products and services to the direct selling and affinity industries in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. Fionda has enjoyed growth rates exceeding 750% in the past five years due to its unique approach and full spectrum of privately branded products, including local and long-distance phone service, VoIP, internet connectivity, wireless, personal web pages and unified communications. Based in Santa Barbara, California, Fionda is a supplier-member of the DSA, has appeared on Inc. Magazine's Inc. 500 list of America's Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies and has been listed as one to the Top 50 companies to watch by the Pacific Coast Business Times. For more information, call 805-884-0884 or visit www.fionda.com.

Source: Business Wire

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