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Skype Partners With Voxpilot on the Skype Voice Services Program

Posted on: Thursday, 8 September 2005, 12:00 CDT

Voxpilot, a leader in VoiceXML IVR platforms, today announced a formal partnership agreement with Skype, the Global Internet Communications Company(TM). The Skype Voice Services Program (enables content-providerss to generate revenue by offering voice services and content to Skype's 52 million global users. Voxpilot's Voxbuilder service (http://www.voxbuilder.com) enables service deployment for a variety of international languages, at attractive service rates.

The Skype Voice Services Program Platform Agreement signed with Voxpilot makes Voxbuilder available to content-providers in Skype's Voice Services Program. Voxbuilder is based on Voxpilot's pioneering IMS-ready, VoiceXML and Video-in-VoiceXML technology. With its VoiceXML Service Provider partner: MAP Telecom, Voxpilot ensures innovative, robust service enablers to Skype's Content Provider community through Voxbuilder.

Voxpilot's flagship Open Media Platform (OMP) platform combines advanced telephony features with Web technologies such as VoiceXML to enable speech based self-service, conferencing, multimedia services, and video-based solutions such as VideoMail.

"We are delighted to partner with an industry leader such as Skype," said Gilles Meyer, CEO of Voxpilot. "We think that Voxpilot and Skype will be able to deliver a truly innovative service to the global Internet community."

"Skype has driven a revolution in personal communications by popularizing free Internet phone calls. We are committed to opening the endless possibilities for voice by creating a marketplace for our thriving network or partners and developers to make it easy for their innovative services to be available to our millions of callers worldwide," said Niklas Zennstrom, CEO and Co-founder of Skype. "We challenge the world's most creative content providers to work with us and our partners such as Voxpilot to develop these new and exciting forms of Internet voice services."

About Voxpilot

Voxpilot brings the next generation of interactive telecommunication services to enterprises, integrators, carriers and service providers. Our flagship product, Voxpilot Open Media Platform (OMP), has been installed in a variety of networks across Europe, America, Africa and Asia. Combining advanced telephony features with Web technologies such as VoiceXML, the Open Media Platform replaces classic Interactive Voice Response and enables speech-based self-service, conferencing, prepaid services, and video-based solutions such as VideoMail.

Voxpilot's OMP Outsourcing Solution enables the Voxbuilder Online Deployment Environment (http://www.voxbuilder.com) to support communities of content-providers and other video and voice service providers to deploy service according to the Web model. With our hosting partner MAP Telecom (http://www.map-telecom.com), Voxpilot already supports a broad community of VoiceXML service/content providers, who can address Skype users through the Skype Voice Services Program.

Visit www.voxpilot.com for more information.

About Skype

Skype, the Global Internet Communications Company(TM), allows people everywhere to make free, unlimited, superior quality voice calls via its award-winning innovative peer-to-peer software for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Pocket PC platforms. Skype is available in 27 languages and is the fastest growing voice communications offering worldwide. Since its launch in August 2003, Skype has been downloaded more than 160 million times in 225 countries and territories. Over 52 million people registered to use Skype's free services, with over 3 million simultaneous users. Skype has more than 2 million premium customers, with over 12 billion minutes served. Skype Technologies S.A. is headquartered in Luxembourg and is growing its offices in London and Tallinn. Skype Technologies is privately held and backed by top tier international venture capital firms, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Index Ventures, and Mangrove Capital Partners. www.skype.com

Voxpilot is a trademark of Voxpilot Limited. All other product or corporate references may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Source: Business Wire

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