Alteva News

Alteva Deploys Alteva Anywhere

2009-06-01T00:00:00-04:00

Fixed Mobile Convergence Extends Alteva Platform to Any Phone Device

Philadelphia, PA – June 1, 2009 – Alteva, North America’s largest enterprise hosted VoIP provider, today announced the deployment of its Alteva Anywhere solution. The solution utilizes the native Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) functionality of the Alteva platform and requires no third party components. It can extend a user’s personal features to any number of fixed and mobile devices by unifying all personal services across all devices. Call colleagues from a mobile device using a four-digit extension, move calls seamlessly from a desk phone to a mobile handset when you need to take an important call with you, or move a call from your mobile to a fixed phone so others can listen in on your speaker phone – without any detection or interruption of the call.

Alteva Anywhere allows users to use one number for all incoming and outgoing calls, regardless of the phone used. More importantly, it does not require the service provider to have a formal business or technical integration with the mobile network. Key benefits include:

Only one business number is needed to reach all phones simultaneously.
Universal features – users have access to all of their business features, regardless of which device they use to receive or make a call.
Works independently of the user’s mobile network – no relationship with the user’s provider is required.
Moves a call among devices – users can enjoy voice call continuity by moving ongoing calls from one phone to another without hanging up.

Alteva Anywhere is already proving operational benefits, and improved productivity for one of the oldest, largest and most experienced operating private investigation firms in New York.

“Updating our agents with crucial information is of utmost importance and Alteva Anywhere has enabled us to be in quick contact with all of our field agents when time is of the essence,” said Darrin Giglio, Private Investigator at North American Investigations. “The ability to transfer calls to each other while on our mobile phones has been a considerable asset that we could not be without. In conjunction, the Alteva Archive call recording solution has been an effective way for us to record all calls whether it’s for evidence, training or to recheck important case information. Being able to use this feature for incoming and outgoing calls even with our mobile phones has been an invaluable tool for our investigative team and has dramatically improved our productivity.”

“In today’s business world, FMC isn’t a luxury, it’s a requirement,” said William Bumbernick, CEO of Alteva. “It’s common for employees to work remotely and be reachable at multiple phone numbers, which can complicate communications. Customers might need to call multiple phone numbers before reaching the employee they are trying to contact. In this disjointed environment, it’s important to have a solution that makes communications as seamless as possible – whether an employee is working from the office, on the road, or at home.”

Alteva Anywhere works with all phone types including desk, PBX, mobile, PSTN and soft clients across all legacy and next-generation architectures (2G/3G/4G). The solution is included free with the purchase of an Alteva Platinum License and is available directly from Alteva, or through resellers and distributors offering Alteva’s hosted solutions.

About Alteva
Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, has become the pioneer for showcasing the high quality and reliability of hosted VoIP solutions. Alteva provides businesses with “Communication as a Service” that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone system maintenance charges and reducing overall telephony costs. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications. Rather than building their processes around the limitations of their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva provides internet access, telephone system and service to growth-oriented businesses in 50 states and 9 countries. For more information, visit www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

PR Contacts:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations for Alteva
723-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Rolls Out Cost-Effective Call Recording for Hosted Customers

2009-01-20T00:00:00-05:00

Hosted VoIP Leader Continues To Showcase Advantages Over Premise-Based PBX Systems

Philadelphia, PA – January 20, 2009 – Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, today announced it has added call recording to its hosted platform. Now customers in other customer-service driven industries can record and manage critical communication using Alteva’s call recording solution, Alteva Archive. Alteva Archive is completely secure, cost effective, and comes with an easy-to-use Internet application.

With no software installation, management, or training required, customers can simply go online and manage their recoded phone data. Because the service is hosted and therefore has no significant up-front cost barrier, even smaller businesses can now improve operations, as well as innovate their customer offerings and improve their competitive edge.

Early adopters of Alteva Archive are already seeing the operational benefits, as well as the ability to gain a competitive business edge.

“Alteva's suite of proven communication service offerings help us drive new growth opportunities, and has the potential to ultimately transform businesses communications,” said Bob Paglione, CEO of Benefit Consultants Group (BCG), a Delran, N.J.-based, third-party administrator serving the financial services industry for 50 years. “Call recording reduces costs and complexity, while improving productivity for customers and business growth.”

Implications for an affordable, reliable call recording system with superior data encryption are enormous for many industries. Even small brokerage firms could afford to add a completely innovative service: taking equity orders over the phone. Medical and legal professionals, who also must comply with strict regulatory and compliance restrictions, can protect themselves and their customers, ensuring accurate communication when someone’s life or legal defense may depend on it.

“Any customer-service driven business is a prime candidate for hosted call recording,” said William Bumbernick, CEO of Alteva. “Remote workforces not only need accurate communication, but they need a way to analyze, document and share the valuable marketing data that is gathered on the fly during customer calls.”

Sales, compliance, customer service, inter-office communication, training—all brought to a different level with Alteva’s hosted call recording.

Pricing for Alteva Archive is available for a monthly fee of $35-50 per seat (based on volume), and $50 per seat to activate. The system is available directly from Alteva, or through resellers and distributors offering the Alteva Hosted solutions.

About Alteva, LLC
Alteva, North America’s largest provider of Enterprise Hosted VoIP, has become the pioneer for showcasing the high quality and reliability of Hosted VoIP solutions. Alteva provides businesses with "Communication as a Service" that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone system maintenance charges and reducing overall telephony costs. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications. Rather than building their processes around the limitations of their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva provides internet access, telephone system and service to growth-oriented businesses in 48 states and 9 countries. For more additional information about Alteva and its solutions, please visit www.altevatel.com or call 1 877-258-3821.

About Benefit Consultants Group
Benefit Consultants Group is an award-winning third-party administration firm. BCG provides plan sponsors and participants with innovative solutions, comprehensive sales support and high quality recordkeeping services to meet the specific retirement needs of its clients for over 50 years. Throughout the decades, BCG has met the challenges of an ever-changing retirement plan environment, while providing its clients with the highest degree of quality service, inspired plan design and implementation. BCG is also proud to acknowledge its ISO 9001 Registration for quality management. In addition, BCG also provides financial and estate planning services through its own fully disclosed broker-dealer, BCG Securities, Inc. For information, visit www.bcgbenefits.com or call 856-368-2000 or 1-800-524-4015.

# # #

PR Contacts:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations (for Alteva)
(732) 758-1100, x. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva CEO Speaks On Disaster Recovery at Channel Partners Conference & Expo 2010

2010-03-09T00:00:00-05:00

Hosted VoIP and the Cloud: Hot Topics in Business Continuity Workshop

PHILADELPHIA, PA – March 9, 2010 – William Bumbernick, CEO of Alteva, North America’s largest enterprise hosted VoIP provider, recently addressed the channel community on “Positioning Hosted VoIP for Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery” as part of the Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery workshop at this year’s Channel Partners Conference & Expo, which took place March 1-3 in Las Vegas. The 2010 show focused on the transformation in communications technology and delivery and how it will impact company business models in the next decade.

“As expected, this year’s Channel Partners Conference was a success and a great opportunity to network and converse with other leaders in the industry,” said Bumbernick. “I’ve never seen so much interest from the channel in the cloud or hosted space, and I am thrilled that Alteva had the opportunity to speak at a conference with such a great turnout.”

Bumbernick joined several other industry thought leaders to identify several standard services that channel partners can position as part of a BC/DR solution. Bumbernick focused particularly on disaster recovery with unified communications in the cloud, talking specifically about how hosted VoIP improves telecommunications continuity and brings profit opportunity to the channel.

Bumbernick added that you can almost assure 100 percent inbound call capacity to any planned or unplanned recovery site in a properly architected hosted model that is built for redundancy with multiple switches at many locations and live failover. “In an event such as weather, illness, family issue or a regionalized disaster that precludes workers from working in their usual offices, a holistic disaster recovery plan always will address single points of failure on the customer premises as well as the telecom carrier location. The remote office features of hosted VoIP allow employees to work from home comfortably while not incurring extra costs to their client.”

Several audience members from the workshop rated the quality of the session, speakers and materials presented from good to excellent according to the attendee reaction survey provided by the show. Several attendees commented that Bumbernick was very knowledgeable in the cloud and hosted space, having brought the most value to the session and that he offered interesting and valuable information on hosted cloud based phone systems.

To view Bill’s presentation and learn more about positioning hosted VoIP for business continuity/disaster recovery visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnAAfF14xW0.

About Alteva:
Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, has become the pioneer for showcasing the high quality and reliability of hosted unified communications solutions. Alteva provides businesses with “Communications as a Service” that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges and reducing overall communication costs by leveraging the power of cloud-based computing. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications. Rather than building their processes around the limitations of their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva provides internet access, telephone system/service and hosted Microsoft Exchange/SharePoint/OCS services to multi-location growth-oriented businesses in 50 states and 14 countries. For more information, visit www.altevatel.com, www.altevatel.com/blog/, or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
723-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva CEO to Speak on Disaster Recovery at Channel Partners Conference & Expo 2010

2010-02-23T00:00:00-05:00

Preparing to Recover Your Voice Systems for Unplanned Downtime

PHILADELPHIA, PA – February 23, 2010 – Alteva, North America’s largest enterprise hosted VoIP provider, today announced that CEO William Bumbernick will speak at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo (March 1-3) in Las Vegas. Bumbernick will speak on “Positioning Hosted VoIP for Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery” as part of the Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery workshop on Monday, March 1st, 2:30–4:15 pm.

Unlike most other disaster recovery products, if positioned properly, hosted VoIP is not perceived as an additional cost, but rather a cost savings. Bumbernick’s session will show how, with hosted VoIP, you can assure inbound call capacity to any planned or unplanned recovery site, mitigate failure points on the premises and with the carrier, and save the customer money.

“Businesses choose hosted VoIP for many reasons: lower upfront fees, unlimited scalability up or down, mitigation of technology obsolesce, but during this session, I will focus on how hosted VoIP improves telecommunications continuity and brings profit opportunity to the channel,” said Bumbernick.

Bumbernick added that the importance of preparing to recover your voice systems for unplanned downtime — power outages, acts of God, fires, floods, etc. — does not go away in a downturn. “Whether it’s an environment-related catastrophe or small neighborhood blackout, these interruptions can cost your client thousands upon thousands of dollars in lost revenue, potential customer loss and even a reduced corporate image,” said Bumbernick.

The Channel Partners Conference & Expo is the communications industry's only event exclusively for indirect sales organizations – agents, VARs, systems integrators, interconnects and consultants – focused on transforming their businesses to become converged solutions providers. Over the past decade, this premier conference and expo has tripled in size to more than 3,000 participants, providing exhibitors with a more diverse audience, more traffic and more exposure for their brands.

For more information about the Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery workshop, visit: http://www.channelpartnersconference.com/2010/vegas/education/business-continuity.html

About Alteva:
Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, has become the pioneer for showcasing the high quality and reliability of hosted unified communications solutions. Alteva provides businesses with “Communications as a Service” that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges and reducing overall communication costs by leveraging the power of cloud-based computing. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications. Rather than building their processes around the limitations of their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva provides internet access, telephone system/service and hosted Microsoft Exchange/SharePoint/OCS services to multi-location growth-oriented businesses in 50 states and 14 countries. For more information, visit www.altevatel.com, www.altevatel.com/blog/, or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
723-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

CTI Group Partners with Alteva

2009-06-02T00:00:00-04:00

Hosted VoIP Call Recording Affordable for All Businesses

INDIANAPOLIS, IN and PHILADELPHIA, PA – June 2, 2009 – CTI Group (Holdings), Inc. (OTCBB:CTIG), an international provider of electronic invoice processing and management (EIM), enterprise communications management software and services solutions, and carrier class VoIP management applications, today announced a partnership with Alteva, North America’s largest enterprise hosted VoIP provider, to provide hosted call recording on Alteva’s hosted VoIP platform. After strenuous lab testing and verification, CTI Group’s hosted call recording was found to be the most secure, user-friendly, and cost-effective call recording solution that met the specific needs of Alteva and its small business and enterprise customers.

Alteva is proud of their record as industry pioneers in quality and reliability. As the VoIP industry continues to grow, the applications and features required are continuing to grow as well. Alteva offers IP telephony service using BroadSoft’s BroadWorks switching platform. Since SmartRecord IP has already integrated with the BroadWorks platform, the ease of integration with Alteva was simple. Alteva’s decision to partner with CTI Group to enhance its hosted call recording on their VoIP platform centered largely around the secure, cost-effective and easy-to-use internet application that CTI Group offers.

“Alteva is eager to add the applications that our customers need, but we want to be sure that the applications we choose are the best fit for our business model. With no proprietary hardware or software installation required, CTI Group’s call recording allows customers to simply log in to the online system and begin reviewing call data without any pesky roadblocks. This fits perfectly into our business model since we pride ourselves on the fact that our hosted service has no significant cost or operational barriers, making the crossover to hosted VoIP painless to small and large businesses alike,” said William Bumbernick, CEO of Alteva.

CTI Group’s VoIP call recording solution, SmartRecord IP, eliminates the need for premise-based recording equipment and packet-sniffing technologies. CTI Group uses a unique approach to capture telephone conversations which helps to eliminate costly network changes or the deployment of multiple premise-based recorders by acting as a central recording device within the network. Its white-labeled and multi-tenant architecture along with its geographic redundancy and scalability, make it an easy fit for hosted VoIP providers.

“We are proud to join forces with Alteva to provide call recording to the hosted VoIP market. By adding applications, like call recording, to their platform, Alteva is able to provide cost effective features their customers need to fully transition to hosted VoIP. Customers can continue to run their business as before and even add unified communications and other features that improve business processes, employee productivity and overall profitability. Call recording not only provides businesses with the ability to better monitor and manage their ongoing communications, it also provides a security blanket when it comes to regulatory compliance and exposure to legal liability,” Sid Rao, Chief Technology Officer, CTI Group.

About CTI Group
CTI Group (Holdings), Inc. is an international provider of electronic invoice processing and management, enterprise communications management software and services solutions, and carrier class voice over internet protocol (VoIP) management applications. CTI Group’s SmartBill®, SmartRecord® and Proteus® product suites offer a full array of solutions for traffic analysis, post-billing call analysis, customer care and call recording. CTI Group’s products are used by some of the top service providers in North America and the United Kingdom, and play a trusted role in managing telephony costs at major corporations internationally. Headquartered in Indianapolis, CTI Group maintains overseas offices in London and Blackburn, UK. For more information, please visit CTI Group’s website at www.ctigroup.com.

About Alteva
Alteva, North America’s largest provider of Enterprise Hosted VoIP, has become the pioneer for showcasing the high quality and reliability of Hosted VoIP solutions. Alteva provides businesses with “Communication as a Service” that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone system maintenance charges and reducing overall telephony costs. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications. Rather than building their processes around the limitations of their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva provides internet access, telephone system and service to growth-oriented businesses in 50 states and 9 countries. For additional information about Alteva and its solutions, please visit www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

Safe Harbor Statement
This release may contain "forward-looking" statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: (a) projections of revenue, capital expenditures, growth, prospects, dividends, capital structure and other financial matters; (b) statements of plans and objectives of CTI Group or its management or Board of Directors; (c) statements of future economic performance; (d) statements of assumptions underlying other statements and statements about CTI Group and its business relating to the future; and (e) any statements using the words “could”, “should”, "anticipate", "expect", "may", "believe", "intend", “will” or similar expressions. CTI Group's ability to predict projected results or the effect of events on CTI Group's operating results is inherently uncertain. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in this document. In addition to information provided elsewhere in this document, shareholders should consider the following: the risk that CTI Group will not be able to attract and retain customers to purchase its products, the risk that CTI Group will not be able to commercialize and market products; the risk of results in research and development; the risk of technological advances by third parties; the risk of competition; the history of operating losses; the dependence upon key personnel and general economic and business conditions. Readers are referred to documents filed by CTI Group with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Form 10-KSB for its most recent fiscal year ended December 31, 2008.

Alteva Debunks Hosted PBX Myths with Edgewater Networks Solution

2009-04-27T00:00:00-04:00

Alteva Capitalizes on Key Survivability and WAN Link Redundancy Features for Large Enterprise Deployments with EdgeMarc Network Services Gateways

Santa Clara, CA and Philadelphia, PA – April 27, 2009 – Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, today announced that the Edgewater Networks solution is the key to dispelling the hosted PBX perceptions that are still prevalent in the VoIP market.

“Legacy PBX vendors sell on the fear of the unknown about hosted and SIP based VoIP services for large enterprise customers. Words like reliability and quality are often used as an example of what is not being delivered by hosted or SIP based VoIP services,” said William Bumbernick, CEO of Alteva. “Alteva has built its reputation by delivering quality and reliability in every integration, regardless of the size of the corporation.”

Alteva’s hosted VoIP solution includes the EdgeMarc and EdgeView platforms that, when combined, ensure that if there is a fiber cut or WAN outage, the phones remain operational either over the PSTN, physically diverse data connection or re-routed locally. With the EdgeMarc, Alteva provides its customers with a truly diverse network redundant path by offering WAN Link Redundancy (WLR). This allows the customer to set up two WAN links through two different service providers and in the case where the primary WAN goes down, the EdgeMarc will automatically failover to the backup data connection such as Cable, DSL or Fast Ethernet Connection.

Survivability and WLR are fundamental differentiators for large enterprise customers because enduring a service outage means their business is down and revenue is subsequently lost. In the example of the law firm of Kimmel and Silverman, P.C. (The Lemon Law Firm), even a short outage means a loss of inbound and outbound business. “We used to average two hours of down time per outage, but with Alteva’s solution and the WAN Link Redundancy feature, our service is now safe and secure,” said Jeff Ehrmann, Director of IT at Kimmel and Silverman. “Recently, our local T1 carrier had a fiber cut that brought down our T1’s at our headquarters. The EdgeMarc automatically failed over to our back up FIOS line, making the entire process seamless to the business, saving us thousands of dollars of potential lost revenue.”

The Edgewater solution consists of the EdgeMarc Network Services Gateways and EdgeView VoIP Support System products. The EdgeMarcs are being used at Alteva’s customer premises as the demarcation point to ensure Quality of Service (QoS), survivability and WLR. The EdgeView VoIP Support system is being used for configuration, troubleshooting and VoIP performance reporting.

“The Edgewater Networks solution delivers what we need for our large enterprise customers. We sell services ranging from 25 to 6,000 seats that depend on the EdgeMarc’s reliability, QoS, and survivability features to guarantee quality of the service to our customer,” said Bumbernick. “We believe the combination of the EdgeMarc gateways and EdgeView platform is a very powerful and essential element in delivering high quality and reliable service to our customers.”

The EdgeMarc Network Services Gateway’s ability to scale to the large enterprise allows Alteva to offer their hosted solution regardless of the customer size. The Alteva network ensures a high quality, reliable solution, utilizing the EdgeView VoIP support tool, to provide key call stats including Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and jitter measurements. Alteva uses this tool to provide proactive management for their customers, often calling the customer about a call quality issue before the customer even knows that one exists.

“Alteva continues to be a great partner because they have built their services so that businesses large and small can innovate their customer offerings and improve their operations and competitive edge with every deployment,” said David G. Norman, CEO of Edgewater Networks, Inc. “The combination of Edgewater Network’s EdgeMarc and EdgeView allows Alteva to dominate the Hosted VoIP enterprise segment of the market and offer a secure and reliable service.”

The EdgeMarc is a part of a complete solution from Edgewater Networks that also includes EdgeConnect managed Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches, the EdgeView VoIP Support System and EdgeView Reports server. EdgeView is a troubleshooting and setup tool that allows service providers to proactively manage and support their communications services. EdgeView Reports is an advanced yet easy-to-use reporting tool that provides valuable VoIP performance information to network planners, operators, product managers, executive management teams and end-users.

About Alteva
Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, has become the pioneer for showcasing the high quality and reliability of hosted VoIP solutions. Alteva provides businesses with “Communication as a Service” that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone system maintenance charges and reducing overall telephony costs. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications. Rather than building their processes around the limitations of their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva provides internet access, telephone system and service to growth-oriented businesses in 48 states and 9 countries. For additional information about Alteva and its solutions, please visit www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

About Edgewater Networks, Inc. - Converged Networking. Simplified.
Edgewater Networks develops networking and security products that ensure the secure and reliable delivery of IP based voice and video for service providers and enterprises. EdgeMarc Network Services Gateways provide a VoIP aware NAT/Firewall, with Active Line Testing, survivability and QoS. EdgeConnect PoE switches simplify administration and QoS, the EdgeView Reports Server provides visibility into VoIP network performance and the EdgeView VoIP Support System eases the setup, monitoring and management of VoIP endpoints. Edgewater Networks’ award-winning solution simplifies setup and management of converged networking applications and provides proven operational savings from the remote office to the core of the network. For more information about Edgewater Networks, Inc. please visit the company’s website at www.edgewaternetworks.com or contact Dave Martin at 408.351.7209.

###

PR Contacts:

Dave Martin
Vice President of Marketing
Edgewater Networks
408-351-7209
dmartin@edgewaternetworks.com

Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations for Alteva
732-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Announces Participation in E-Rate Program

2009-04-07T00:00:00-04:00

Hosted VoIP Leader Expands Its Presence in the Education Market

Philadelphia, PA – April 7, 2009 – Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, today announced its participation in the Universal Service Administrative Company’s Schools and Libraries Program, also known as E-Rate. Through this program, discounts are provided to assist most schools and libraries in the U.S. obtain affordable telecommunication service, Internet access and phone hardware. Discounts up to 90 percent of the costs of eligible services are given, depending on economic need and location.

Through E-Rate, a participating school or library is responsible for providing additional resources such as end user equipment (computers, telephones, etc.), software, professional development and other elements necessary to realize the objectives of that connectivity. Four service categories are funded: telecommunications services, Internet access, internal connections other than basic maintenance and basic maintenance of internal connections.

“By expanding our presence in the education market, we’re able to offer a feature rich hosted telephony solution to the educational community, bringing innovative communications right into the classroom, while at the same time offering dramatic discounts for authorized services through the E-Rate program,” said Louis Hayner, Vice President of Sales, Alteva. “Alteva’s hosted solution is now a preferred choice for non-profit private schools, public schools and libraries who are allotted only a certain amount of spending per month on telecommunications.”

Alteva’s IP phone service provides affordable, high quality hosted IP PBX, and calling functionality over a single IP network interface. With a powerful yet easy-to-use interface, users are free to maintain, update and expand their telephony system in their own time, at no extra cost.

About Alteva
Alteva, North America’s largest provider of Enterprise Hosted VoIP, has become the pioneer for showcasing the high quality and reliability of Hosted VoIP solutions. Alteva provides businesses with “Communication as a Service” that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone system maintenance charges and reducing overall telephony costs. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications. Rather than building their processes around the limitations of their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva provides internet access, telephone system and service to growth-oriented businesses in 48 states and 9 countries. For additional information about Alteva and its solutions, please visit www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

About the E-Rate Program
The E-rate program is administered by the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC). The program was set up in 1997 when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a Universal Service Order implementing the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The order was designed to ensure that all eligible schools and libraries have affordable access to modern telecommunications and information services. Up to $2.25 billion annually is available to provide eligible schools and libraries with discounts under the E-rate program for authorized services. www.universalservice.org/sl.

# # #

PR Contacts:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations for Alteva
732-758-1100
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Offers International Porting Capabilities in Canada

2010-02-16T00:00:00-05:00

Alteva Unifies Communications of American and Canadian Offices

PHILADELPHIA, PA – February 16, 2010 – Alteva, North America’s largest enterprise hosted VoIP provider, today announced the expansion of its services to include porting capabilities in Canada. Canadian companies wanting to have an appearance in the US will now be able to retain a local presence using a local number and more importantly, create a standardization and consolidation of its billing across all of its offices. In addition, companies will maintain the benefits of using a hosted VoIP solution including lower up front costs, flexibility and scalability, redundancy with live failover and automatic upgrades.

“This has never been done on an enterprise level,” said Mark Marquez, CIO at Alteva. “The demand for international enterprise deployments is growing and we are ready to meet the needs of our multi location customers and expand the global reach of our VoIP and Unified Communications (UC) services worldwide. Alteva will offer porting capabilities to over 70 countries by the end of 2010.”

Retaining local presence – no need for POTS lines or TDM service
Lower calling rates
Intra-country dialing and number portability - no more country codes
Free extension dialing to/from Canadian offices
Consolidation of billing across all offices
Seamless connectivity

“Standardization is a big driver in offering this type of capability, especially with companies that have thousands of employees and offices worldwide,” said Rob Molinaro, Vice President of Chorus Communications, an Alteva Master Agent. “Alteva worked with us to develop an almost virtual phone system that fits our customers’ needs and expands their global reach. Now, Canadian customers can have a cost-effective way to retain their existing numbers, but also expand their hosted VoIP and UC services on a localized level.”

About Alteva
Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, has become the pioneer for showcasing the high quality and reliability of hosted unified communications solutions. Alteva provides businesses with “Communications as a Service” that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges and reducing overall communication costs by leveraging the power of cloud-based computing. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications. Rather than building their processes around the limitations of their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva provides internet access, telephone system/service and hosted Microsoft Exchange/SharePoint/OCS services to multi-location growth-oriented businesses in 50 states and 14 countries. For more information, visit www.altevatel.com, http://www.altevatel.com/blog/, or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
723-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Partners With Polycom To Offer HD Voice Technology to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

2008-12-18T00:00:00-05:00

Polycom HD Voice Phones Available with Alteva’s Hosted VoIP Solutions

Philadelphia, PA – December 18, 2008 – Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, today announced that it is a certified Polycom® Reseller, offering premium voice service with Polycom’s HD Voice™ SoundPoint® IP 550 and 650 models to its customers. With a network designed and built specifically for superior voice quality, Alteva is one of the only service providers that enhances voice quality with Alteva’s HD voice, delivering the clarity, consistency and reliability that is critical to business. By partnering with Polycom, the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communications solutions, Alteva is able to offer the best value in VoIP service for small businesses.

“We have experienced a leap in voice quality using Polycom’s high definition SoundPoint IP 550 phone with the Alteva solution,” said Joel Pina, CFO, Keystone Risk Partners. “In addition to crystal clear voice, we have significantly improved integration with Microsoft Outlook, improved communications with remote offices and gained long-term cost savings.”

“Our SoundPoint IP phones improve productivity by offering unprecedented, lifelike, HD voice and are interoperable with Alteva’s hosted VoIP solution,” said Chalan Aras, Vice President of Marketing for Polycom’s Voice Communications Solutions Division. “Alteva’s VoIP solution provides a good example of how Polycom can work with hosted system providers to deliver a comprehensive, reliable, business-grade communications solution to businesses of any size.”

The Alteva IP phone service provides affordable, easy-to-use, high quality hosted IP PBX, and calling functionality to small and medium-sized businesses over a single IP network interface. With a powerful yet easy-to-use interface, businesses are free to maintain, update and expand their telephony system in their own time and at no extra cost. Users can enjoy state-of-the-art telephony and powerful options such as HD voice, call recording, call log reporting, conference calling, call forwarding, mobile access and other phone and network features.

“While other IP phone service providers simply fall short on quality and reliability, our network was built specifically for business VoIP phone service, using live, real-time digital voice that is offered at an affordable rate,” said William Bumbernick, CEO, Alteva. “Teamed with Polycom’s portfolio of HD Voice enabled phones, we are now able to offer a hosted solution that surpasses reliability standards and is able to deliver more innovation to businesses than premise-based systems, offering superior voice quality and enhanced productivity.”

About Alteva, LLC
Alteva, North America’s largest provider of Enterprise Hosted VoIP, has become the poster child for showcasing the high quality and reliability of Hosted VoIP solutions. Alteva provides businesses with a telephone system that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone system maintenance charges and reducing overall telephony costs. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications and add a steady stream of exciting new Alteva or third-party “mashup” applications. Rather than building their processes around their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes. Alteva provides its "Communication as a Service" solution to growth-oriented companies in 48 states and 9 countries. For additional information about Alteva and its solutions, please visit www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

# # #

PR Contacts:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations (for Alteva)
(732) 758-1100, x. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Receives 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award

2009-05-19T00:00:00-04:00

Alteva Archive Recognized for Outstanding Innovation

Philadelphia, PA – May 19, 2009 – Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named Alteva Archive as a recipient of a 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award.

Customers in other customer-service driven industries can now record and manage critical communication using Alteva’s call recording solution, Alteva Archive. With no software installation, management, or training required, customers can simply go online and manage their recorded phone data. Because the service is hosted and therefore has no significant up-front cost barrier, even smaller businesses can now improve operations, as well as innovate their customer offerings and improve their competitive edge. Alteva Archive is completely secure, cost effective, and comes with an easy-to-use Internet application on Alteva’s hosted platform.

“We are please to be recognized by TMC for this award,” said Louis Hayner, VP of Sales for Alteva. “Remaining legally compliant is vital to your business’ success and Alteva Archive substantially lowers your risk when industry regulations necessitate recorded phone calls. Alteva’s call recording solution ensures that you have the flexibility, scalability, and compliance coverage you need whether you’re a retailer depending on phone order confirmations, an insurance provider that relies on claims recordings, or a financial company that needs to verify phone trades.”

“Alteva has been recognized with a 2008 Product of the Year Award for their excellence in the advancement of voice, data and/or video communications,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief. “Alteva has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future.”

The Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2008 were selected as recipients of this year’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.

The 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the INTERNET TELEPHONY and Customer Interaction Solutions Web site.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global integrated media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two to three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends. TMCnet is ranked as 2,921 in Quantcast's Top U.S. Sites placing TMCnet in the top .03% most visited Web sites in the US. In addition, TMC produces ITEXPO, 4GWE Conference, Digium|Asterisk World and Communications Developer Conference. TMC’s Green Blog has been ranked on the “100 Best Blogs for Those Who Want to Change the World”. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

###

PR Contacts:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations for Alteva
723-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Jan Pierret
Marketing Manager
TMC
203-852-6800, ext. 228
jpierret@tmcnet.com

Alteva and SimpleSignal Form IP Peering Alliance

2009-10-22T00:00:00-04:00

Leading Service Providers Collaborate to Create Cross-Platform, HD-to-HD IP Calling

Philadelphia, PA and Dana Point, CA – October 22, 2009 – Alteva, North America’s largest enterprise hosted VoIP provider, and SimpleSignal, a facilities-based complete network provider of business VoIP, today announced the successful completion of an IP peering relationship that will integrate disparate VoIP Service Providers to improve voice and video communications and allow advanced feature integration.

Currently, most calls are placed through the traditional PSTN controlled by legacy carriers, which defeats many of the current quality improvements available with High Definition (HD) IP communications. When VoIP service providers peer with each other, users on either network can connect directly over IP and bypass the PSTN. This allows the user to experience all the quality and features available through HD IP voice and video communications in a cross-platform call. The technology being used is an innovative and new approach of “fabric-based peering,” in which carriers can easily and reliably route communications based traffic between customers or end users regardless of who they use for their services.

Following this year’s CTO Summit, held at the VON Conference & Expo in Miami Beach, Florida, Alteva and SimpleSignal became the first VoIP Service Providers to take the dramatic step towards improving video communications and HD voice communications.

“The roadblock to enhanced communications services continues to be the limitations of the PSTN networks that interconnect all carriers,” said Mark Marquez, VP of Technology at Alteva. “Alteva believes that ‘a high tide raises all ships’. By working with SimpleSignal, we are able to provide end-to-end IP-based communications that allow for enhanced video conversations, as well as high-definition voice. We hope this will encourage other carriers to follow suit.”

“The SimpleSignal and Alteva alliance proves that HD voice and exceptional video quality can happen completely outside of the traditional PSTN,” said Ujjval Karihaloo, VP of Engineering at SimpleSignal. “By removing the barrier of the PSTN and peering with other service providers, IP communications can be all that it was created to be. Alteva and SimpleSignal users can now talk to each other using HD voice technology without any per minute charges.”

Some of the benefits of a nationwide IP peering fabric could include: nationwide HD-to-HD calling between different service providers, the ability to pass video from one carrier to another, and more overall cost-effective peering relationships for service providers and their customers.

“The recent growth in SIP trunking will quickly advance new IP-based communication applications like video conferencing,” said Seamus Hourihan, executive vice president of marketing and product management for Acme Packet. “Acme Packet’s Net-Net Session Border Controllers provide the foundation for service providers like Alteva and SimpleSignal to deliver trusted, first-class communications and offer new business tools to more effectively meet the needs of their enterprise customers.”

Alteva and SimpleSignal will demonstrate their peering relationship at Acme Packet’s Interconnect 2009 conference (November 8-11th) in Miami, Florida. The demonstration will include HD voice and video communication between Alteva and SimpleSignal, two of the leading hosted VoIP carriers in North America.

For more information about Alteva’s enterprise hosted VoIP services, contact sales@altevatel.com, call 877-258-3821, or visit www.altevatel.com. For more information about SimpleSignal’s Unified Communications business solutions, contact sales@simplesignal.com, call 866-434-4404 or visit www.simplesignal.com.

About Alteva
Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, has become the pioneer for showcasing the high quality and reliability of hosted VoIP solutions. Alteva provides businesses with “Communication as a Service” that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone system maintenance charges and reducing overall telephony costs. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications. Rather than building their processes around the limitations of their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva provides internet access, telephone system and service to growth-oriented businesses in 50 states and 14 countries. For more information, visit www.altevatel.com, http://www.altevatel.com/blog/, or call 1-877-258-3821.

About SimpleSignal
SimpleSignal is a Cloud-based, also known as Hosted PBX and Unified Communications service provider, in addition to offering SIP Trunking services, advanced Voice Apps , and Polycom IP Phone equipment. They have become one of the top Broadsoft switches in the United States, providing IP Phone apps and services to thousands of satisfied customers throughout the US and Canada, with a growing list of multi-office clients using the dependable service in many International locations. One of the key benefits of choosing SimpleSignal is their ability to dependably provision off-net, meaning customers can bring their own bandwidth and still use the SimpleSignal Hosted PBX system without going through the painful process of changing out their entire IP infrastructure. Media Contact: Dave Gilbert, SimpleSignal, Inc. 34232 Pacific Coast Highway, Dana Point, CA 92629. 949-429-4758, dave@simplesignal.com Dave's Blog: http://www.simplesignal.com/blog/

###

PR Contacts:

Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations for Alteva
723-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Paul McQuade
Public Relations for SimpleSignal
949-485-2204
paul@direworxdigital.com

Alteva Named a 2010 Honoree by the Stevie® Awards

2010-03-01T00:00:00-05:00

Hosted VoIP Provider Recognized as Customer Service Department of the Year in IT & Telecommunications

PHILADELPHIA, PA – March 1, 2010 – Alteva, North America’s largest enterprise hosted VoIP provider, today announced that it was presented with a Stevie® Award in the Sales & Customer Service – IT & Telecommunications category in the fourth annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Winners were announced during a gala banquet on Monday, February 22 at the Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel in Miami Beach. Nominated customer service and sales executives from the US and several other countries attended. Alteva ranked first out of 14 finalists in its category, including such companies as Rackspace Hosting and Constant Contact.

“We are honored to be recognized with such a prestigious award as the Stevie Award,” said David Cuthbert, COO of Alteva. “Excellent customer service is a cornerstone of our business and this award highlights Alteva’s commitment to providing exceptional value to businesses and the best support possible for our customers.”

More than 500 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted to this year’s competition. There are 27 categories for customer service professionals, including Contact Center of the Year, Award for Innovation in Customer Service, and Customer Service Department of the Year; as well as 41 categories for sales professionals, ranging from Global Sales Leader of the Year to Sales Training Program of the Year to Sales Department of the Year of the Year. Members of the Awards' Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs selected Stevie Award winners from among the Finalists. Finalists were chosen by business professionals worldwide during preliminary judging.

“This year’s honorees demonstrate that even in challenging economic times, it’s possible for organizations to continue to shine in sales and customer service, the two most important functions in business: acquiring and keeping customers,” said Michael Gallagher, president of the Stevie Awards.

Details about the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service and the list of honorees in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/sales.

About Alteva:
Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, has become the pioneer for showcasing the high quality and reliability of hosted unified communications solutions. Alteva provides businesses with “Communications as a Service” that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges and reducing overall communication costs by leveraging the power of cloud-based computing. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications. Rather than building their processes around the limitations of their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva provides internet access, telephone system/service and hosted Microsoft Exchange/SharePoint/OCS services to multi-location growth-oriented businesses in 50 states and 14 countries. For more information, visit www.altevatel.com, www.altevatel.com/blog/, or call 1-877-258-3821.

About The Stevie Awards:
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

Sponsors of the 4th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service include official publications Sales & Marketing Management (SMM) and Training magazines, as well as the Sales Association, SalesLabs, and ValueSelling Associates.

###

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
723-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Philly and New York Service Providers Set MLB World Series Wager

2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00

Companies Add Humiliation Factor to Pretzel vs. Bagels Bet

PHILADELPHIA and NEW YORK - October 28, 2009 - As the New York Yankees take on the reigning champion Philadelphia Phillies in the 2009 Major League Baseball World Series, there’s more on the line for two unified communications providers. After last year's World Series bet with a Tampa-based company (Oranges for Cheesesteaks), Philadelphia-based Alteva, North America's largest enterprise hosted VoIP and unified communications solutions provider, has initiated another friendly competition with Stage 2 Networks, New York’s leader in hosted PBX and converged network solutions.

This year, Alteva decided to up the ante by adding a humiliation factor. The bet is Philadelphia pretzels for New York bagels, but the 2009 loser will also don opposing teams fan wear and have a photo session with a banner acknowledging the winner in front of well known landmarks. If the Phillies win, Alteva has chosen to have Stage 2 take their “photo of shame” in Times Square. If the Yankees win, Stage 2 has selected the Rocky statue in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

“After winning bushels of Florida oranges last year, we bought a juicer and got accustomed to drinking fresh squeezed orange juice at breakfast meetings…the only thing missing is a good bagel,” said William Bumbernick, CEO of Alteva. “We enjoy doing things like this as its fun for the company, overall morale and we get to show our support of our home team. Alteva is proud to be part of the Philadelphia business community, and we have an avid group of Phillies fans here.”

“While this is a great way to show support for our home teams, it also demonstrates how two companies who have a common business goal can use competitiveness in a fun and spirited way,” said Joseph P. Gillette, CEO of Stage 2 Networks. “The only previous Yankees-Phillies World Series was played back in 1950, so we’re looking forward to going head-to-head almost 60 years later. Who knows when we’ll get this opportunity again? We’re also looking forward to eating lots of Philly pretzels.”

###

About Alteva
Alteva, North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, has become the pioneer for showcasing the high quality and reliability of hosted unified communications solutions. Alteva provides businesses with “Communication as a Service” that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges and reducing overall communication costs by leveraging the power of cloud-based computing. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications. Rather than building their processes around the limitations of their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva provides internet access, telephone system/service and hosted Microsoft Exchange/SharePoint/OCS services to multi-location growth-oriented businesses in 50 states and 14 countries. For more information, visit www.altevatel.com, http://www.altevatel.com/blog, or call 1-877-258-3821.

About Stage 2 Networks
Stage 2 offers a robust and redundant network with connectivity, quality of service and local number portability available across the country and, often, around the world. Our services include hosted PBX or business phone system solutions, without the capital expenditure typically associated with purchasing a new phone system. Stage 2 also provides phone line replacement at reduced cost with enhanced functionality, whether POTS or PRI services. Finally, all of Stage 2's products are supported by robust data connectivity that can fully integrate its customers' communication platform for both voice and data services across multiple locations. Stage 2's productivity-enhancing features and functionality serve to differentiate its products and offer an added bonus to its customers. For more information, visit www.stage2networks.com.

PR Contacts:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations for Alteva
723-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Suzanne Urash
Stage 2 Networks
813-649-8504
suzanne@cre8groupinc.com

Alteva Thanks Philadelphia Phillies for Two Bushels of Oranges

2008-11-17T00:00:00-05:00

Philadelphia, PA – November 17, 2008 – Alteva, the largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP in North America, today publicly thanked the Philadelphia Phillies for their prize of two bushels of oranges. Alteva entered into a friendly wager with its Tampa Bay-based competitor, Telovations over the 2008 World Series which the Phillies won four games to one. The bet between the two hosted phone system providers had Alteva putting up a dozen cheesesteaks against Telovations’ two bushels of oranges.

The pot was sweetened by BroadSoft®, the worldwide leader of VoIP application software that enables the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services for both vendors. BroadSoft presented the winner with two complimentary tickets (a value of $1690) to Connections 2009, its annual executive users’ conference, which is scheduled to take place October 26–29 in Scottsdale, Arizona.

“Where we may compete in some instances, Alteva looks at other hosted providers as allies in delivering the message that hosted solutions have now become a no-brainer for businesses looking to take advantage of Voice over IP,” said William Bumbernick, President and CEO of Alteva. “Like Telovations, we can easily show how installing, maintaining, and using a hosted solution helps businesses save money, eliminate IT strain, and increases productivity.”

# # #

PR Contacts:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations for Alteva, LLC
(732) 758-1100, x. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

2008 World Series: Oranges for Cheesesteaks?

2008-10-22T00:00:00-04:00

Philadelphia, PA and Tampa, FL – October 22, 2008 – The Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays will soon battle it out on the field in the 2008 World Series. In each respective state, thousands of people are already placing bets on who should win this year’s title. In particular, two hosted phone system providers are actually betting oranges for cheesesteaks in a friendly, VoIP competitor match up. Alteva is apparently putting a dozen cheesesteaks on the line against Telovations’ two bushels of oranges.

Representing the Phillies: Hailing from Philadelphia is Alteva, leading provider of Hosted VoIP solutions in the Northeast. Alteva provides businesses with a telephone system that requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone system maintenance charges and reducing overall telephony costs. With a sophisticated open standards infrastructure, Alteva enables businesses to easily integrate existing business applications and add a steady stream of new Alteva or third-party “mashup” applications.

Representing the Rays: Based in Tampa, Telovations provides growing businesses in the Southeast with a hosted, managed, IP communications solution, including telephone equipment, telephone service and a high-speed T-1 connection to the Telovations private, secure and fully managed Cisco Powered RealTime Network(SM).

“Just like major league sports, business is all about competition. These guys on the field are fierce competitors, but off the field many of them are good friends,” said William Bumbernick, President and CEO of Alteva. “Our industry is no different. While we compete on opportunities, we also have a common goal to educate businesses about how Hosted VoIP or IP PBX solutions are superior to the traditional customer premise based PBX model. Most importantly, it is a great opportunity to show our support for our Phillies, especially since our offices are located in the heart of Philadelphia,” added William Bumbernick.

“Hosted IP communication solutions have surpassed premise based systems and there’s no reason for businesses to purchase, install and maintain systems that will be paid off by the time they’re obsolete,” said Telovations President and CEO Rick Schonbrun. “Plus, Tampa is the best team in baseball and it’s hard to find a good cheesesteak down here.”

About Telovations, Inc.
Based in Tampa, Fla., Telovations provides growing businesses in the Southeast with a hosted, managed, IP communications solution, including telephone equipment, telephone service and a high-speed T-1 connection to the Telovations private, secure and fully managed Cisco Powered RealTime Network(SM). Telovations' Innovate services also include over 20 innovative applications, professional support and systems management for one low monthly price. For additional information about Telovations and the Innovate managed communications solution, please visit www.telovations.com or call 1-877-We-Innovate (1-877-934-6668).

# # #

PR Contacts:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations for Alteva, LLC
(732) 758-1100, x. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Katie Gonzalez
Telovations, Inc.
(813) 321-1034
kgonzalez@telovations.com

Alteva COO to Speak on Disaster Recovery at Annual ACUTA Conference

2010-04-12T00:00:00-04:00

Conference Agenda Includes Emergency Preparedness, Communications and Recovery Topic

PHILADELPHIA, PA – April 12, 2010 – Alteva, North America’s largest enterprise hosted VoIP provider, today announced that COO David Cuthbert will speak at the 39th Annual ACUTA Conference & Exhibition (April 18-21) in San Antonio, Texas. Cuthbert will speak on the topic of, “Considering a Hosted IP PBX for Disaster Recovery,” on Monday, April 19th, 1:15-2:15pm.

According to a survey by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), 65 percent of businesses feel their telecommunications is the weakest element of their business continuity plan. Cuthbert’s session will focus on how hosted VoIP improves telecommunications continuity and will discuss some of the best practices to help institutions meet their recovery time objectives as it applies to their voice applications.

“Unplanned downtime – power outages, flood, fire, and small interruptions – all cost your institution revenue and a reduced public image,” said Cuthbert. “Preparing to recover your voice systems can be intimidating and costly until hosted IP PBXs are considered.” Cuthbert added that whether it’s an environment-related catastrophe or small neighborhood blackout, these interruptions can cost thousands upon thousands of dollars in lost revenue, potential customer loss and even a reduced corporate image. “Unlike most other disaster recovery products, if positioned properly, hosted VoIP is not perceived as an additional cost, but rather a cost savings,” said Cuthbert.

ACUTA, the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education, is an international non-profit educational association serving colleges and universities. ACUTA represents over 1700 individuals at nearly 800 institutions of higher education with members ranging from small schools and community colleges to the 50 largest U.S. institutions representing diverse Carnegie classifications in all 50 states, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Its mission is to support higher education information communications technology professionals in contributing to the achievement of the strategic mission of their institution.

For more information about ACUTA or its events, visit: http://www.acuta.org.

###

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
723-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva To Participate In VoIP Related Webinar Series

2010-03-30T00:00:00-04:00

Phone Service Providers Unite to Discuss Industry Trends and Topics

PHILADELPHIA, PA – March 30, 2010 – Alteva, North America’s largest enterprise hosted VoIP provider, today announced that it will participate in Chorus Communications’ 2010 webinar series, to run every Tuesday, starting March 23rd. The webinar series is designed to provide sub-agents with the knowledge base needed to sell the hottest products in the marketplace today, including hosted VoIP and unified communications solutions.

As a highly regarded thought leader in this industry, Alteva has been asked to participate in the following webinars:

Tuesday, April 6th and Tuesday, April 13th at 10:00 AM eastern time
Topic: International VoIP Connectivity, SIP Trunking & Session Border Controls
Presenters: InPhonex with Alteva

International porting capabilities offer the ability for phone service providers to seamlessly connect their customers with other locations abroad without the common constraints of cost normally associated with this type of connection. International companies will be able to have an appearance in the US and the ability to retain a local presence using a local number. Alteva and InPhonex will discuss how these capabilities create a standardization and consolidation of its billing across all of the user’s offices. Specifically, Alteva will talk about the enterprise VoIP component, while InPhonex will concentrate on the residential and ultra small business capabilities. InPhonex is one of the many carriers that Alteva utilizes, as well companies such as Level 3 Communications and Global Crossing.

Seminar 4: Tuesday, May 4th and Tuesday, May 11th 2010 at 10:00 AM eastern time
Topic: Hosted vs. Premise based VoIP Solutions
Presenters: Alteva and Quick Connect

It is becoming quite apparent that in the near future, everyone will transition their phone services over to VoIP. Depending on the circumstance, hosted VoIP might be better suited for some companies more than on-premise solutions and vice versa. Alteva will collaborate with Quick Connect to provide an educational discussion on the benefits of each service, and a real perspective on when to deploy each of these products.

“The more agents that understand the newest trends and technologies in the industry, the better they become equipped to sell these types of products to their customers,” said Louis Hayner, Chief Sales Officer, Alteva. “By providing our expertise in the hosted VoIP and unified communications arena, we are able to join our partners and other agents to build a better industry standard when it comes to these types of services.”

How to Sign Up

Agents looking to get educated on how to sell your services are invited to participate in the webinar series. A limited number of seats are available. Additionally, Alteva is offering its own webinar series that will cover overarching topics, as well as more detailed topics such as unified communications and cloud services. To learn more or sign up for this program, please contact Louis Hayner, Chief Sales Officer at Alteva, at 1-215-789-4028 or lhayner@altevatel.com.

###

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
723-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Microsoft to Direct Small Businesses Seeking Unified Communications Solutions with VoIP Integration to Alteva

2010-04-22T00:00:00-04:00

New Offering Integrates Voice with Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Server

PHILADELPHIA, PA – April 22, 2010 – Alteva, a unified communications solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced that it has engaged in a partnership with Microsoft and BroadSoft to provide a true hosted Unified Communications (UC) solution to small businesses. Alteva has developed a way to interconnect its hosted voice and messaging services with Microsoft Communication Services product suite, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Server (OCS), for both its small business and enterprise customers.

Microsoft is actively pushing the capability of a fully integrated communications platform by partnering with Alteva, Comcast, and Go Daddy, among others, to provide more productive communications, improve employee productivity and enhance office efficiency. Alteva has been selected as one of the only hosted voice service providers to offer the complete suite of Microsoft Communication Services, with integrated voice services.

“By allowing for more fluid and direct collaboration between employees with one another, suppliers, partners and clients, a unified communications solution helps businesses of any size to streamline communications,” said William Bumbernick, CEO, Alteva. “It also helps reduce costs and minimize delays to assure faster interaction with anyone important to the organization, even if they are not physically at the same location. By working together with an innovative company like Microsoft, we are now able to provide a proven and reliable, fully integrated communications solution.”

In its recent key trends report titled, “Managed and Hosted Unified Communications,” Nemertes Research predicts the adoption of managed communications services will continue to increase across the board in 2010 and beyond. The report states, “We expect the use of managed services for other UC applications to double or even triple by 2011, similar to what we saw with managed VoIP over the last couple years.” The report also states that a big driver toward managed services is the increased adoption of complex unified communication and collaboration applications. “The increasingly virtual workforce has led to growth in adoption of applications such as VoIP, unified messaging, video conferencing, Web conferencing, and document sharing.”

“Other companies claim to offer UC, but in actuality they are only referring to basic VoIP features such as voicemail messages as a .wav file in your email. True UC is much more than that,” said Louis Hayner, Chief Sales Officer, Alteva. “Alteva’s UC product with the full suite of Microsoft Communication Services products integrated with Voice over IP phone service, allows for a truly cloud-based UC environment where basic business-based technology like voice is combined with office communications such as instant messenger, video conferencing, desktop sharing, telepresence, etc. This capability is changing the landscape of enterprise businesses, creating unprecedented productivity enhancements.”

Unified Communications Packages with Microsoft Communication Services

Microsoft Communication Services enables employees to access critical business information from any location, at any time, on any device. Working remotely, employees can now access email and customer information, view and edit documents, manage calendars, and collaborate with coworkers as if they were still in the office. When integrated with Alteva’s hosted VoIP, customers will benefit from voice-enabled Outlook calendars and email, phone presence, vendor bill consolidation, scalability, increased control, business continuity and mitigation of technology obsolescence.

This enables smaller organizations to easily integrate voice, messaging and collaboration systems. Having HD phones and hosted voice services on a high-quality, enterprise-grade platform interconnected with Microsoft Communication Services products including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and OCS, provides a plethora of capabilities at a tremendous value.

Product Availability and Pricing

Because each organization is different and has different communication needs, Alteva has just launched a Web store, where organizations with less than 25 users can easily select the right UC solution to suit their needs. Alteva has designed four different UC packages from which small businesses can choose from including its UC Complete bundle that allows users to realize the benefits of a fully-integrated, HD voice-enabled unified communications solution (priced from $38 per user, per month), Alteva Collaboration & Voice Communications (priced from $25 per user, per month), Alteva Desktop and Expanded Collaboration (priced from $28 per user, per month) and Alteva Desktop Communications Basic (priced from $15 per user, per month). Alteva also offers a la carte purchasing options for those who seek only to purchase Exchange email, OCS or Alteva’s hosted VoIP. Customers with 25 users and above should contact an Alteva representative at 877-258-3821 to receive customized pricing.

In conjunction with the release of its new UC offering, Alteva has launched its new corporate website at http://www.altevatel.com, which features details about the packages offered on the Web store, with access to the store, a new corporate overview video, training videos and other information to help customers and prospective customers learn more about Alteva’s products and services.

Microsoft will support Alteva and the new product offering by including Alteva in a special promotion that directs prospects to the Alteva Web store, through its Microsoft Communication Services page at www.microsoft.com/hosting/en/us/default.aspx.

Alteva will showcase its UC solutions at the Microsoft Hosting Summit (April 27-29) in Bellevue, Washington.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IP phone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

PR Contact: Angela Cuzzo MRB Public Relations 723-758-1100, ext. 108 acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Receives Unified Communications® Magazine’s 2009 Product of the Year Award for Alteva Vision

2010-05-04T00:00:00-04:00

Recognized for Exceptional Innovation, Voice App Complements Complete UC Solution

PHILADELPHIA, PA – May 4, 2010 – Alteva, a unified communications solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®) has named Alteva’s new voice application, Alteva Vision, as a recipient of its 2009 Unified Communications magazine Product of the Year Award.

Alteva Vision, brings telephony features to the desktop, and is a free add-on to all of Alteva’s voice customers. Built on Adobe Air technologies, this real-time communications app runs on any Apple, PC and/or Linux machine. With both basic and advanced call, contact, and phone status capabilities, users can find and communicate with anyone in their organization through Alteva Vision. Key features include Click to Dial, Advanced Call Control (Call Pickup, 6-Way Conferencing, Push to Talk), Integrated Corporate Directory, Monitored Contacts/Presence, Speed Dial Configuration and Calling, Call Alerting, Advanced Service Configuration (Alteva Anywhere, Call Forwarding, etc.) and much more.

This award comes on the heels of Alteva’s recent launch of its new, cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution that integrates hosted VoIP phone service with Microsoft Communication Services, including Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, Office Communications Server (OCS) and SharePoint. Alteva demonstrated this voice-enabled, complete UC solution at the Microsoft Hosting Summit in Bellevue, Washington last week.

“We are honored to be recognized by TMC for our accomplishments in the UC space,” said William Bumbernick, CEO, Alteva. “In today’s fast paced world, the technology businesses use to communicate should improve employees’ productivity and efficiency. Alteva Vision is designed to do just that and is a revolutionary step in hosted telephony, helping to streamline communications in businesses of any size. It’s also a great way to introduce our hosted VoIP customers to the benefits of UC solutions and it complements Alteva’s complete UC product that includes Microsoft Communication Services.”

Customers who utilize Alteva’s complete UC solution that provides messaging, collaboration and conferencing capabilities integrated with Alteva’s VoIP – as well as those customers only taking advantage of Alteva’s hosted VoIP – will benefit from Alteva Vision’s rich feature set.

“Alteva continually seeks ways to meet the needs of its customers,” said Louis Hayner, Chief Sales Officer, Alteva. “UC solutions benefit companies of all sizes by reducing the need for travel and associated costs and by providing productivity increases and positive ROI. We have launched Alteva Vision, as well as our complete UC product, to help our customers be more competitive in their marketplace.”

“It is an honor to grant Alteva with a 2009 Product of the Year Award for its Alteva Vision. Alteva has proven its dedication to quality and excellence while supporting the needs in the marketplace,” stated Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “We look forward to seeing continued advancement in technology solutions from Alteva in the future.”

A complete list of Product of the Year Award winners is published in the March/April 2010 issue of Unified Communications magazine, www.uc-mag.com. For more information about TMC, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IP phone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-.quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

About Unified Communications magazine
Launched in July 2007, Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating enterprise decision makers on why and how they need to deploy unified communications (UC) solutions. Every issue of Unified Communications magazine features a comprehensive news section; case studies of successful deployments and lessons learned; interviews with leading hardware and software companies; and an 'industry' section, featuring analysis of important mergers and acquisition, partnerships and a Wall Street perspective on the unified communications market. Unified Communications has a readership of 100,000. For more information, please visit www.uc-mag.com.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global, integrated media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN magazines. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two million unique visitors each month on average worldwide, according to Webtrends. TMCnet has ranked within the top 3,500 in Quantcast's Top U.S. sites, placing TMCnet in the nation’s top .03% most visited Web sites. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO (ITEXPO); 4GWE Conference and M2M Evolution (in conjunction with Crossfire Media); Digium|Asterisk World (in conjunction with Digium); and Smart Grid Summit (in conjunction with Intelligent Communication Partners).

TMC also serves technology professionals with industry-specific Web sites: IT.TMCnet.com, 4G-wirelessevolution.TMCnet.com, M2M Evolution.com, Smart-Grid.TMCnet.com, Smart Products Ecosystem, Robotics.TMCnet.com, Cable.TMCnet.com, Satellite.TMCnet.com, Green.TMCnet.com, Healthcare.TMCnet.com, and Education.TMCnet.com.

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

PR Contacts:

Alteva Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations 723-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

TMC Contact:
Jan Pierret 203-852-6800, ext. 228
jpierret@tmcnet.com

# # #

Alteva CEO to Speak at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

2010-07-12T00:00:00-04:00

Accelerate Your Business With the Power of the Cloud

PHILADELPHIA, PA & WASHINGTON, D.C. – July 12, 2010 – Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced that CEO William Bumbernick will speak at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2010), July 11-15th in Washington, D.C. Bumbernick will join other top executives from the hosting industry and Microsoft’s key hosted software marketing experts on a US hosting panel discussion titled, “Accelerate Your Business With Cloud Computing,” Thursday, July 15th, 1:30-2:30pm.

Recurring revenue models of hosted software can provide tremendous opportunity to expand your systems integration or hardware business. Several technology trends are turning into compelling options for customers including UC and collaboration, virtualized infrastructure, SaaS, cloud, and remote management. This panel session will provide a unique opportunity for attendees to learn about the realities of working with companies like Microsoft and Alteva, and other Microsoft hosting partners, and how to build businesses by utilizing and connecting their services to the cloud.

“Recent initiatives from vendors and service providers to bring enterprise hosted UC solutions to the SMB community are enabling small businesses to be more agile and more competitive,” said Bumbernick. “Hosted or cloud-based solutions average a 75 percent reduction in startup expenses, so while smaller firms are still on tighter budgets, businesses can still afford enterprise-class communications thanks to the power of cloud based technologies.”

The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is an annual gathering for the Microsoft partner community to learn about Microsoft’s roadmap for the upcoming year, network and build connections, share best practices, experience the latest product innovations and learn new skills and techniques. Since 2003, the Microsoft WPC provides a unique 5-day event for thousands of partners from over 100 countries to plan their business strategies for the upcoming year. In 2009, WPC offered over 228 training sessions led by partners, Microsoft professionals, and industry leaders; 90 hands-on labs; and thousands of meetings responsible for many new business transactions.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Alteva Announces Cuthbert New CEO

2010-08-31T00:00:00-04:00

New Successor Comes at a Time of Tremendous Growth

PHILADELPHIA, PA – August 31, 2010 – Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider, headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced the appointment of David Cuthbert as CEO. With over twelve years of operational management and leadership experience, Cuthbert’s focus will be leading Alteva through its industry leading growth. Cuthbert joined Alteva in 2006 as the COO and has developed scalable processes through automation and employee development. The Founder of Alteva, Chairman and former CEO, William Bumbernick, will focus on the innovative direction of the company as Chief Innovation Officer.

“Mr. Cuthbert is really the right choice to manage and lead Alteva to the next level,” Bumbernick says. “His leadership style combined with his knowledge and acumen of our industry will ensure both his success and that of our company.”

Cuthbert is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former Naval Special Operations Officer. In this capacity he led underwater and land bomb disposal teams domestically and abroad. In 2003, he was assigned the leadership responsibility of the Navy’s leading nuclear weapon casualty response detachment. His leadership, process innovation, and mission accomplishment earned him several high level unit and individual awards. He is considered an expert in critical process development and management.

“Alteva’s tremendous growth is primarily due to our ability to stay two steps ahead of the competition,” said Bumbernick. “My passion has always been our technology, innovation and the future. David is ideally suited for the role of CEO. As a former Navy Special Operations Officer, he runs a tight ship, which enables me to think about the future.”

“Bill is one of the true industry pioneers. A true technical genius when it comes to innovating what’s next for Alteva and we want to keep him doing the things that he enjoys and that continue to separate us in the industry,” said Cuthbert. “This decision was a strategic move for our company that will keep us on top of our industry.”

Rapidly evolving into the leading hosted IP communications company in the country, under Bumbernick, Alteva has averaged growth over the last three years of 66% and this year's sales at mid-year are already 45% higher than in 2008 while its larger competitors are reporting revenue declines.

As a pioneer in managed or hosted IP telephony, Alteva is transforming the telecommunications industry with new products, services and an unequaled drive towards innovation. The company was one of the first hosted VoIP vendors in the industry and now consistently releases advanced features and capabilities 12 to 18 months ahead of competitors, including their most recent launch of a true hosted UC solution; Alteva has developed a way to interconnect its hosted voice and messaging services with Microsoft Communication Services product suite, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Server (OCS), providing end to end integration between Messaging, Voice, and other Real Time Communications systems.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact: Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva to Showcase Hosted Voice Integrated with Microsoft Communications Services at Channel Partners Conference & Expo

2010-09-16T00:00:00-04:00

Hosted Unified Communications Even More Affordable Through IP Phone Rental Program

PHILADELPHIA, PA & WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 16, 2010 – Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced another affordable way to leverage Microsoft Communication Services integrated with Alteva’s enterprise hosted VoIP service, at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Washington, D.C. Together, Microsoft and Alteva are providing hosted UC solutions for smaller businesses that integrate communication and business processes to increase productivity, streamline costs, provide more flexibility and increase and manage growth.

To further make these new technologies accessible to the SMB market, Alteva is now offering its complete UC solution to organizations purchasing 10 or more phones through an IP phone rental program. Companies that choose to take advantage of the rental program will not have to put any money down to get a new Voice over IP phone system. “This rental option will greatly improve the channel managers’ ability to close sales in this turbulent economy,” said Alteva Chief Sales Officer Louis Hayner.

Back in April, Alteva launched the complete suite of Microsoft Communication Services, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Server (OCS) with hosted voice services. Alteva can be found on Microsoft’s website along with more information at http://microsoft.com/commservices/.

“Hosted unified communications will change the way that businesses communicate,” said Rich Cannon, Industry Marketing Development Manager, Communications Sector NA, Microsoft. “By integrating voice with Microsoft Communication Services, we are opening the doors to service providers and their partners by providing a range of functionalities to offer to the end user that will inevitably change the landscape of their business.”

In a survey by Infonetics Research, of North American companies and their plans for deploying Unified Communications equipment and services, as well as their ratings of leading Unified Communications vendors, Microsoft is one of the most widely deployed Unified Communications suppliers among survey respondents, enjoying high buyer awareness and receiving high marks from buyers on the most important buying criteria. “Against the backdrop of significant enterprise spending reductions on all kinds of products, the unified communication market is holding up remarkably well. Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise, as these tools are designed to allow users to communicate and collaborate more effectively,” notes Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst for enterprise voice and data at Infonetics Research.

“By pushing the capability of a fully integrated communications platform in the cloud, we are empowering small businesses by giving them the ability to improve their employee productivity and enhance office efficiency with a more productive way of communicating,” states Alteva Chief Innovation Officer William Bumbernick.

Alteva will showcase its hosted UC solution at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo (September 20-22) in Washington, D.C., booth #4021. A representative from Microsoft will also be available to discuss the benefits of hosted Unified Communications to the small business. Additionally, Alteva will join several other leading industry organizations including Cisco, ADTRAN and Smoothstone, on a Hosted vs. Premises UC session on Tuesday, September 21st, 8:30 – 9:45 a.m. Bumbernick will present on the hosted side of the panel, discussing the value proposition of hosted UC and the benefits and business opportunity it brings to the SMB market.

Organizations can learn more about Alteva’s hosted UC solutions at http://www.altevatel.com/solutions/overview and can purchase by calling an Alteva representative at 1-877-258-3821. For more information on Alteva’s channel partner program, visit http://www.altevatel.com/partners/channel-partners.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact: Angela Cuzzo MRB Public Relations 732-758-1100, ext. 108 acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Chief Innovation Officer to Speak at Cloud Communications Summit West

2010-10-01T00:00:00-04:00

Cloud Communications Benefits to the Service Provider and SMB Communities

PHILADELPHIA, PA & LOS ANGELES, CA – October 1, 2010 – Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced that William Bumbernick, chief innovation officer, will speak on two panels at Cloud Communications Summit West at ITEXPO, October 4-6th in Los Angeles, California. Bumbernick will join thought leaders in the communications industry from Cisco, Fonality and Aretta Communications. Both panels are part of a series of educational sessions at ITEXPO that will explore how communications as a service drastically lowers capital expenditures, reduces project risks and increases service agility and value.

Just as it has with previous emerging technologies, the SMB market presents a tremendous opportunity to cloud services providers. But, just as with other communications solutions, SMBs have specific priorities in mind when deciding what to put on the cloud. The “SMB Cloud Communications Adoption Trends: What’s Hot and What’s Not?” session (Tuesday, October 5th, 10:30-11:15am) will discuss trends around SMB cloud computing adoption, including who is adopting the cloud, for what services, and what’s driving their decisions.

The growth of technologies like cloud computing and virtualization afford service providers a range of opportunities for increasing revenues in their enterprise markets as well as for moving up the value chain in terms of the quality and complexity of services they can provide to businesses. The “How Service Providers Can Benefit from Cloud Communications” panel (October 6th, 2:45-3:30pm) will describe how service providers can work with enterprise customers to gain the advantages of the cloud. Attendees will learn how service providers can help effectively implement virtualization and SaaS strategies and understand the key distinctions between the various options available today.

“Communications become more unified and simplified in the cloud and more companies are pushing cloud computing and utilizing hosted technologies including Voice over IP, CRM, remote access and security,” said Bumbernick. “Service providers can benefit tremendously from selling cloud communications and smaller firms with tighter budgets can still afford enterprise-class contact center tools and take advantage of the quality, reliability and higher ROI that cloud based technologies offer.”

The Cloud Communications Summit will address a growing need of businesses to integrate and leverage cloud based communications applications, process enhancement techniques, and network based communications interfaces and architectures. Business professionals will learn the fundamentals of cloud based communications business models, market trends and current large efforts and deployments. Sales teams can benefit by learning real life cloud communications success stories and interacting with other ecosystem members.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Announces Local Anywhere

2010-12-13T00:00:00-05:00

Multiple DID Solution Offered Through the Cloud

PHILADELPHIA, PA – September 16, 2010 – Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced the addition of Local Anywhere to its extensive line of hosted services. Local Anywhere assigns multiple DIDs to one Voice over IP (VoIP) desk phone.

Setting up this solution through a hosted phone service provider, such as Alteva, allows the company to have an inbound notification that alerts employees as to which DID – or phone number – the call is coming in through, allowing the user to personalize their response. Outbound caller IDs are associated with the appropriate phone number to reflect that person or company name, making it less likely for call recipients to ignore calls. This unique solution will appeal to several types of companies, to which the nature of their businesses requires this type of solution, not typically available in a hosted VoIP solution.

“Implementing cutting edge solutions to maximize efficiency and provide a higher level of customer service is what is going to make an organization stand out amongst the competition,” said William Bumbernick, chief innovation officer at Alteva. “By offering multiple DIDs though a hosted solution, privately labeled companies can now enhance customer service by giving employees a much better chance to personalize their service to the caller. In today’s economy, anything you have that makes you more efficient makes you the better business.”

Abigail Michaels offers traditional hotel concierge style services to luxury condos and residential buildings nationwide. With twelve locations, as well as five privately labeled concierge contracts that it services, they wanted to switch to a hosted VoIP solution, but needed a phone system that would let employees know how to answer the phone when clients call in to one of its many properties, and be able to select an outbound line associated with each of these properties.

“With a traditional phone system, we could have a different phone line designated for each of the companies we represent on one desk phone, but that was not an existing feature in a hosted VoIP solution,” said Greg Flood, Director of Strategy & Operations at Abigail Michaels Concierge. “Other hosted VoIP companies were not able to provide this option to us, so we were thrilled when Alteva told us about Local Anywhere. This solution is ideal for our needs. It has enabled us to provide better service to our customers, while leveraging our skill sets across multiple customers.”

“One of the differentiators that Alteva provides over traditional telecom service providers is that they offer solution sales, not just out-of-the-box commodity services,” states Rob Molinaro, vice president at Chorus Communications, the consultant that introduced Local Anywhere to Abigail Michaels. “Their ability to build custom solutions around specific business practices creates value for our customers, and value for us as consultants.”

Additional benefits of Local Anywhere include:
Ability to setup local lines that are rerouted to a main site.
HD phones with exceptional call quality on the leading VoIP platform in the industry; virtually eliminates dropped calls, static or missed calls.
Reduce desk and office clutter; no need for individual modems, internet cables and power chords; direct connection from your phone to computer.
Monthly savings over dated phone systems; ROI within first 12 months.

Alteva’s Local Anywhere can also benefit smaller companies wanting to provide the illusion that they have offices in multiple locations. Simply by setting up multiple DIDs with area codes for those different cities, callers would dial a local number and be seamlessly transferred to the main location. For customized pricing information, contact an Alteva representative at 877-258-3821 or visit http://www.altevatel.com/partners/channel-partners.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Announces Video Auto Attendant

2011-01-10T00:00:00-05:00

On Demand Video Capabilities Offer Comprehensive User Experience

PHILADELPHIA, PA – January 10, 2011 – Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced the availability of the industry’s first on demand video auto attendant. As the IP communications industry continues to expand, a significant portion of end users are seeking ways to integrate video capabilities into their business. By interacting with Alteva’s Video Auto Attendant, customers will experience a video greeting with routing options, acting in place of an automated receptionist, giving the user on demand video access to the highest levels of expertise even though they might not exist at that specific location.

Instead of being presented with an audio only auto attendant -- “Press 1 for Sales, 2 for Service, etc." -- users with a video endpoint dial into Alteva’s network and are presented with a video stream rather than an audio stream. This stream could be a recording of a person reciting those “Press 1” options or it could be much more robust with graphical cues to help customers make a decision that will eventually route them to the appropriately skilled live agent.

“We’ve been fortunate enough to look at our industry and understand where the innovation needs to be. Customers think video is expensive and a next generation thing, but part of the advancement of Alteva's hosted communications platform is that video is there if you need it at no extra cost,” said William Bumbernick, chief innovation officer, Alteva. “That’s the benefit of a hosted solution. When new innovations come out, they immediately become part of the product. It’s all there and ready to go when the customer is ready to use it.”

The video capabilities extend much further. Video Voicemail allows users to leave a visually recorded voice message. In place of ‘hold’ music, Video on Hold presents the user with streaming video which could include live events, commercials, product specials or even user tutorials. With these capabilities, businesses can leverage customers’ time, giving them something of value while they wait, improving efficiency and allowing for a more comprehensive and satisfying user experience. There is also an add-on capability that allows the sharing of documents (graphs, performance reports, etc.) live on that stream, depending on the video endpoints.

Alteva’s video auto attendant is most appropriate for highly distributed companies – those needing the ability to have face-to-face conversations even though they are geographically distributed. For example, a financial institution could use the solution to give their local branch customers direct access to specialized and advanced services such as information about mortgage applications, retirement planning or investment accounts that might not be available at that specific branch location. While that particular branch might have some knowledge, the person with the specialized knowledge might exist at another branch location and the video device would connect the customer to the necessary expert on demand.

Alteva plans to evolve the video auto attendant into a web-friendly solution that will allow a user to dial in through a traditional telephone line or mobile device, connect to Alteva’s switching service, and use a web application that will stream the videos directly to the user. For more information, contact an Alteva representative at 877-258-3821 or visit www.altevatel.com.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IPphone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Chief Innovation Officer to Speak at Pacific Telecommunications Council Annual Conference

2011-01-17T00:00:00-05:00

Hosted Unified Communications: An Inclusive Technology

PHILADELPHIA, PA & HONOLULU, HI – January 17, 2011 – Alteva, a Unified Communications(UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced that William Bumbernick, chief innovation officer, will speak at PTC’11, the Pacific Telecommunications Council’s 33^rd consecutive annual conference, January 16-19^th in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bumbernick will join other communication industry thought leaders from Polycom, IntelePeer, Inc., SimpleSignal and Broadcore in a breakout session on virtual services, Tuesday, January 18^th, 3:45-5:15pm.

With the emergence of UC, enterprises are starting to morph their voice, video, instant messaging, and presence systems into one. Making these previously disparate systems work together requires a fair amount of sophistication and resources at times of shrinking IT budgets. Hosted and managed services are suddenly very attractive to enterprises; a service provider can take over the responsibility for integrating the various systems. This session will explore a pragmatic and practical view of UC, examining which UC functions bring real value to enterprises and how hosted or managed service providers can help deliver this UC functionality.

“As technologies such as true hosted UC are developed, you can start out on the phone or via an IM and then overlay different applications such as desktop sharing, application or video in a seamless, non-disruptive way, giving participants the ability to collaborate using an ultimate solution,” said Bumbernick. “UC offers the power of circular communication where different applications become inclusive technologies, working together in a hosted landscape.”

PTC’11 offers an important and substantial platform for understanding where the industry is and where it may be heading. This year’s theme “Connecting Life 24/7,” will examine how telecom is changed and challenged by always-connected users with new requirements and preferences. Every January, PTC presents a unique forum for service providers, equipment and software developers, content providers, investors, researchers, and policy makers to forge alliances, negotiate agreements, and to learn from one another’s experiences.

About Alteva:

Alteva, a Unified Communications(UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IP phone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo

MRB Public Relations

732-758-1100, ext. 108

acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Chief Innovation Officer to Speak at ITEXPO East 2011

2011-02-01T00:00:00-05:00

Hosted Services Offer Productivity Benefits and Savings to the Enterprise

PHILADELPHIA, PA & MIAMI, FL – February 1, 2011 – Alteva, a Unified Communications(UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced that William Bumbernick, chief innovation officer, will speak at ITEXPO East 2011, February 2-4 in Miami, Florida. Bumbernick will join industry leaders from Market Strategy & Analytics Partners, Siemens Enterprise Communications and LogiSense on a panel titled, “De-mystifying Hosted Communications,” Friday, February 4^th, 9:00-9:45am.

There are a multitude of hosted communications services on the market today, each with a promise to deliver numerous customer productivity benefits as well as cost savings. This session will consider the many alternatives available to businesses today, and provide the end user with a baseline understanding and definition for each. The session will conclude with some predictions around the future of the hosted market and its impact on the enterprise.

“While many types of hosted communications exist in the industry, one thing is certain – by utilizing the power of the cloud, end users will realize a dramatic reduction of costs compared to premises based solutions,” said Bumbernick. “When a customer chooses a hosted unified communications solution, they benefit from the things important to making a business efficient such as unparalleled communications continuity, vendor/ bill consolidation, scalability, increased control, business continuity and mitigation of technology obsolescence. Hosted UC solutions, like VoIP and Microsoft Communication Services, contribute to an overall reduction in resources and costs of power and cooling by up to 84 percent, also providing a green benefit to the end user.”

ITEXPO is the event with an educational program that teaches resellers, enterprises, SMBs, and government agencies how to select IP-based voice, video, fax, and UC to purchase or resell. It's where service providers learn how to profitably roll out services their subscribers are clamoring for. ITEXPO is where buyers, sellers, resellers, and manufacturers meet to forge relationships and close deals.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IPphone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Chief Innovation Officer to Speak at Parallels Summit 2011

2011-02-18T00:00:00-05:00

Implementing Hosted PBX and VoIP with Parallels Automation

PHILADELPHIA, PA & ORLANDO, FL – February 18, 2011 – Alteva, a Unified Communications(UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced that William Bumbernick, chief innovation officer will speak at Parallels Summit 2011, February 22-24, in Orlando, Florida. Bumbernick will join Anton Zlygostev, program manager, Parallels Automation to discuss, “Implementing Hosted PBX and VoIP with Parallels Automation,” Thursday, February 24^th at 3:50pm.

Every small and medium sized business has phones and a phone system. These are quickly following the path of email to the cloud. Are you ready to grab your share of that market? This session will show attendees the easiest and most profitable way to add Hosted PBX and VoIP to their lineup.

“Recent voice integration efforts have changed the telecommunications landscape by enabling service providers to deliver Enterprise UC solutions in a SaaS/hosted model to SMB customers,” said Bumbernick. “Today, SMBs can be empowered by utilizing cloud based solutions that offer productivity gains, collaboration improvements, dramatically reduced costs and an increased competitive edge.”

“Parallels Automation for Hosted PBX combined with Alteva’s wholesale business model enables a turnkey portfolio of communication offerings for service providers,” says Jack Zubarev, President Marketing and Alliances, Parallels. “This solution will enable easy market entry into a fast growing multi-billion dollar opportunity.”

Additionally, Alteva will demonstrate how to profitably deliver hosted PBX and VoIP services with Parallels Automation during an innovation zone demo at 10:30 that morning. The company will also showcase its hosted VoIP and UC solutions in booth #142 on the show floor.

The Parallels Summit is the premier conference for service providers — hosters, communications service providers (CSPs), value-added resellers (VARs), even web designers — looking to rapidly and profitably deliver the widest range of integrated, easy-to-use cloud services that small businesses are eager to acquire.

About Alteva:

Alteva Announces Unified Communications Certification Program

2011-03-14T00:00:00-04:00

Program Helps Alteva Channel Partners Broaden Expertise and Boost Revenues

PHILADELPHIA, PA – March 14, 2011 – Alteva, a Unified Communications(UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced its Unified Communications Certification program to enhance the value of its channel partner base. The program will allow its channel partners to learn how to position Alteva’s cloud based UC solution – which consists of hosted VoIP integrated with Microsoft Communication Services – expand their offerings, boost revenues and increase market share. The three tiered program includes a technical overview of UC, education programming on how to sell and position UC, and impact/reinforcement training led by the Sandler Institute, a world leader in innovative sales and sales management training.

“Several years ago, the channel didn’t fully understand what UC was, what the benefits were and why they should embrace selling it. But, as the UC market continues to grow and more service providers enter the market to meet the needs of end users, we’re starting to see the channel realize the need for such a solution – now they just need to learn how to best present the sale to the end user,” said Louis Hayner, Chief Sales Officer, Alteva. “This is what Alteva’s UC Certification program is all about. Part of it is giving channel partners the technical background needed to position UC and the cloud, while the other part will help them position their services, allowing them to sell on the benefits – and pains – of the solution to the end user.”

Level One Training

Level one, day one training begins with a UC technical overview by Alteva - covering such topics as the history of telecom and the history of the desktop, LAN/WAN, customer network design, multilink internet, and much more. The latter part of the day’s training will concentrate on how to sell and position Alteva’s UC solutions.

Day two training is led by the Sandler Institute. The curriculum focuses strongly on providing Alteva’s channel partners with unique tactical sales and communication skills, outbound call scripts and techniques to use to control the buyer-seller dynamic that will help give channel partners a highly effective approach to prospecting. The second half of the day focuses on impact training in which Sandler provides a formula for successful selling, by teaching several of its proven techniques.

“As a consulting firm who is responsible to know the best directions to point customers towards, Alteva’s UC Certification program was a huge help in clearing the questions about what differentiates Alteva from other providers we can turn to,” says Amy Servis, the Channel Manager with Chorus Communications. “I’m so glad I made the time to attend, it will absolutely help me steer our agents toward the best high end solutions for their customers.”

Level 2 training will take Partners on a deep dive into the Alteva Sales Process and provide advanced questioning, presentation and closing techniques. Level 3 training will cover the mastery of questioning techniques, negotiation strategies and techniques, behavioral profiling and more.

In addition to the three levels, there is an optional Reinforcement Training package, which comes in the form of several follow up web trainings. The Level 1 Reinforcement Training package includes Alteva’s Marketing Tool Box program, which is a marketing plan on a schedule, including content in the form of email templates, phone scripts and much more.

“Education is crucial if the channel community is ever going to fully leverage the cloud. Revenue is only revenue if the cloud is sold, so it’s important to find the right solutions and applications to sell, but also partner with experienced and reliable service providers because your reputation is on the line,” added Hayner. “The more informed our channel is the better informed our customers are, and an informed customer is the best one to have.”

“Excellent use of your time,” says TelecoWorks Founder and President Valerie Brauckman of the program. “Agents will learn how to leverage a customer’s need to communicate more effectively, offload time-consuming network management to the cloud and make residual commissions all from one company, Alteva.”

For more information about Alteva’s partner program, contact an Alteva representative at 877-258-3821 or visit www.altevatel.com/partners/overview.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IPphone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Receives Unified Communications® Magazine’s 2010 Product of the Year Award

2011-04-06T00:00:00-04:00

Voice Integrated Unified Communications Solution Recognized for Exceptional Innovation

PHILADELPHIA, PA – April 6, 2011 – Alteva, a Unified Communications(UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named Alteva’s voice integrated UC Solution as a recipient of its 2010 Unified Communications magazine Product of the Year Award.

In April 2010, Alteva transitioned away from being just a hosted VoIP service provider to launching its hosted UC solution. In an exclusive relationship with Microsoft and Broadsoft, Alteva developed a way to interconnect its hosted voice services with the Microsoft Communication Services product suite, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Server (OCS). Alteva was one of only a few hosted voice service providers in the world selected to offer the complete suite of Microsoft Communication Services with voice integration, allowing for a true hosted UC environment where a hosted IP phone system fully integrates with email, voicemail and workflow applications.

“Alteva continues to be honored throughout our industry for its excellence in technical innovation,” said William Bumbernick, Chief Innovation Officer, Alteva. “The Unified Communications Product of the Year Award highlights our commitment to equip businesses with a cloud-based solution that provides productivity increases and cost savings. This enables businesses, whether large or small, to be more agile and more competitive.”

Alteva’s hosted UC takes basic business-based technology like voice communications and combines that with office communications such as instant messaging, video conferencing, desktop sharing, telepresence, etc. It enables employees to access critical business information from any location, at any time, on any device. Workers can access email and customer information, view and edit documents, manage calendars, and collaborate with coworkers remotely as if they were still in the office, and the hosted VoIP integration enables customers to benefit from voice-enabled Exchange features including Outlook calendars and email; phone presence; vendor bill consolidation; scalability; increased control; business continuity and mitigation of technology obsolescence.

“Alteva has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. Unified Communications is pleased to grant a 2010 Product of the Year Award for its hosted UC solution,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “We’re proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Alteva in the future.”

Product of the Year Award winners will be published in the April 2011 issue of Unified Communications magazine.

For a video demo of Alteva’s solution, visit http://www.altevatel.com/solutions/overview, or contact an Alteva representative at 877-258-3821.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IPphone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

About Unified Communications magazine

Launched in July 2007, Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating enterprise decision makers on why and how they need to deploy unified communications (UC) solutions. Every issue of Unified Communications magazine features a comprehensive news section; case studies of successful deployments and lessons learned; interviews with leading hardware and software companies; and an 'industry' section, featuring analysis of important mergers and acquisition, partnerships and a Wall Street perspective on the unified communications market. Unified Communications has a readership of 100,000. For more information, please visit www.uc-mag.com.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person, and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, NGN and InfoTECH Spotlight magazines. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world’s leading B2B communications event. TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: 4GWE; Smart Grid Summit; M2M Evolution; Cloud Communications Summit; Social CRM Expo; SIP Tutorial; VIPeering; Business Video Expo; CVx; Digium|Asterisk World; StartupCamp; MSPAlliance MSPWorld and more. Visit TMC Events for a complete listing and further information.

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo

MRB Public Relations

732-758-1100, ext. 108

acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

TMC Contact:

Jan Pierret
203-852-6800, ext. 228
jpierret@tmcnet.com

Alteva Sponsors Philly Tech Week and Participates in Signature Event

2011-04-19T00:00:00-04:00

Helping Raise Awareness about Philadelphia Technology Changing the World

PHILADELPHIA, PA – April 18, 2011 – Alteva, a Unified Communications(UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced its participation in the first annual Philly Tech Week, taking place April 25-30^th. The week-long celebration of technology and innovation in Philadelphia is intended to grow the impact of this innovative region through programming focused on technology, collaboration and improving Philadelphia.

As a sponsor, Alteva will have a presence during the signature gala event, taking place at the Dorrance H. Hamilton Public Media Commons at WHYY on April 29^th from 6:30-10pm. Over 200 technology community leaders will be honored, and notable regional leaders and representatives from the city government, the city's entrepreneurial community, IT professionals, startups and online media workers will be in attendance, making it the largest and most diverse gathering of the city's technology community.

“Alteva feels very strongly about Philadelphia being a hub for technological innovation, as our technology community has a lot to offer the city, the region and the world,” said William Bumbernick, chief innovation officer, Alteva. “We are excited to be part of this inaugural event and collaborate with other local technology companies to help bring awareness to the public that Philadelphia is providing innovative technologies to improve the lives of others.”

As an innovator in the tech community, Alteva brings great pride to Philadelphia. The company teaches and implements processes that help everyone across the organization nurture innovation and collaboration in the workplace. It is one of the only companies in the world selected to work with Microsoft and Broadsoft to integrate Alteva’s VoIP phone service with Microsoft Communication Services, to provide companies in Philadelphia – and around the world – with true Unified Communications.

“Alteva is a proud part of a growing and innovative technology community in Philadelphia,” said Christopher Wink, co-founder of Technically Philly, a news site that covers the people who use technology in Philadelphia, and organizer of Philly Tech Week. “We are thrilled they will have a strong presence throughout the week.”

To meet with Alteva and reserve a seat at the signature event visit http://tp.ticketleap.com/philly-tech-week-signature-event/. Additional information about Alteva’s solution is available at www.altevatel.com/solutions/overview, or you contact an Alteva representative at 877-258-3821.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IPphone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva CSO to Speak at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

2011-07-11T00:00:00-04:00

Leading Business Communications Companies to Discuss Partner Best Practices for Winning Against the Competition

PHILADELPHIA, PA & LOS ANGELES, CA – July 11, 2011 – Alteva, a Unified Communications(UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced that Chief Sales Officer Louis Hayner, will join other top executives from leading hosted business communications companies, Apptix and Parallels, on a partner panel at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2011), July 10-14^th in Los Angeles, CA. The panel session titled, “Winning Against the Competition: Partner Best Practices,” will take place July 14^th from 3:00-4:00pm.

Microsoft communications and productivity solutions are giving customers the choice and scalability they need to solve their business problems in an ever evolving economic landscape. Attendees will learn from other partners, how working with Microsoft has provided them with a strategic advantage to beat the competition and become more profitable in the long term.

“A high tide raises all ships, and Alteva is very excited to participate on a panel that allows us to deliver the best expertise from all areas of business communications to WPC attendees,” said Hayner. “By combining world class hosted Voice over IP service with best-of-breed products from the desktop, like Microsoft Communication Services, we are enabling the service provider community to unlock the secret of delivering a high margin, highly sticky product set to the end user through the power of the cloud.”

“Cloud adoption is transforming the IT industry,” said Apptix Chief Marketing Officer, Joy Nemitz. “Businesses are choosing service providers, not by merit alone, but also by their ability to develop strong alliances to deliver competitive solutions. I look forward to sharing with you how Apptix has become a trusted partner to best-in-class providers and is delivering on its value proposition, particularly to the health care, financial, legal and broadband markets.”

“Parallels, a leading enabler of Microsoft hosted communication and productivity solutions, helps thousands of service providers in 126 countries grow and profit from both cloud services delivery platforms and the broadest ecosystem of partners for meeting the IT needs of small and medium businesses,” said John Zanni, Vice President of Service Provider Marketing and Alliances at Parallels. “Parallels has helped our partners profit from SMB’s transition to the cloud and stay ahead of the industry trends, by capitalizing on the knowledge of our ecosystem of go-to-market experts and using proven marketing programs and best practices from Parallels community of service providers.”

The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is an annual gathering for the Microsoft partner community to learn about Microsoft’s roadmap for the upcoming year, network and build connections, share best practices, experience the latest product innovations and learn new skills and techniques. Since 2003, the Microsoft WPC provides a unique 5-day event for thousands of partners from more than 130 countries worldwide, to plan their business strategies for the upcoming year. The Microsoft WPC week is anchored around keynote presentations from Microsoft’s senior leaders; training sessions led by partners, Microsoft professionals, and industry leaders; and thousands of meetings responsible for m any new business transactions.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IPphone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Relaunches Channel Partner Program

2011-07-18T00:00:00-04:00

Updated Program Provides Revenue Growth, Educational Opportunities and Profitability for Alteva Channel Partners

PHILADELPHIA, PA – July 18, 2011 – Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced enhancements to its Channel Partner Program. The new program is designed to help master agents, agents and referral partners expand their offerings, boost revenues and increase market share with a cloud-based UC solution, consisting of Alteva’s hosted VoIP integrated with Microsoft Communication Services, including Exchange, Office Communications Server (OCS) and SharePoint. Channel partners can take advantage of the many benefits that come with the program, including Alteva’s recently launched UC Sales Certification training program, informational and educational webinars, networking events, training guides, marketing materials and more.

“Alteva believes that a high tide raises all ships. It’s not just about improving our company, but the hosted VoIP and UC industries in general. By working closely with the channel and providing the tools they need to be successful, we can further extol the benefits of hosted UC,” said Louis Hayner, chief sales officer, Alteva. “By offering Alteva’s Channel Partner program, including our UC Sales Certification training, we enhance the value of our partners by helping them learn how to position services, expand offerings, boost revenues and increase market share.”

As businesses realize the benefits of cloud-based, or hosted, technologies, many have trouble transitioning their businesses. Channel Partners are also being challenged. One of the highlights of Alteva’s Channel Partner Program is its competitive commission plan, with monthly residuals, which includes four partner levels:

Alteva UC Certified Partners - benefit from the highest commission percentage available from Alteva. This level is for partners who have completed the Alteva UC Sales Certification training program.

Alteva Premier Partners - receive commission percentage by retaining a specified quarterly quota determined by their Alteva Channel Manager.

Alteva Preferred Partners - receive commission with no quarterly quotas.

Alteva Referral Partners - receive commission for referring business that results in a sale.

Each partner is assigned a dedicated UC Sales Certified channel manager no matter under which partner level they join Alteva’s partner community. This allows for a true collaborative partnership, where the manager can be as involved as you want them to be with the end user customer during the entire process, from sales through implementation and training.

UC Certification & Additional Resources

The cornerstone of Alteva’s updated Channel Partner Program is its recently launched UC Sales Certification program. The three tiered program includes a technical overview of UC, education programming on how to sell and position UC, and impact/reinforcement training led by the Sandler Institute, a world leader in innovative sales and sales management training.

“We have always highly valued the Channel,” says Hayner. “We’ve listened to our partners’ feedback and their needs, which is why we developed this new certification program. Now that it is launched and is meeting with great response, we felt it was important to officially relaunch our Channel Program, with this sales certification at the heart of it.”

Additional tools and resources are available through Alteva’s protected partner portal, where partners can access Alteva marketing document templates that include fields intended to input their own contact information before providing the documents to prospects. Partners who have completed Level 1 of the Alteva UC Sales Certification will also receive log in credentials to the associated SharePoint community site, where partners can access program documents, share ideas and access other valuable information. Level 1 Certified Partners also receive the Alteva Marketing Toolbox, which provides marketing email templates, follow up call scripts, useful links and more.

Quarterly Events

Alteva holds quarterly educational webinars for its Channel Partner community to provide deep dive product knowledge, sales positioning, messaging and answers to questions related to the hottest industry topics.

Additionally, Alteva hosts regional cocktail networking events to provide a platform to share new developments and sales tools. Partners will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one and share ideas with Alteva’s Sales and Marketing team.

“In the UC industry, it’s important to partner with experienced and reliable service providers because your reputation is directly tied to the companies you partner with,” said Robert Molinaro, vice president of Chorus Communications. “As any agent knows, the key to healthy commissions are a healthy recurring revenue stream, and one of the advantages of selling cloud based services, like Alteva’s hosted VoIP and UC solutions, is that it allows us to rebrand ourselves and future proof our business, without making drastic business model changes.”

“In our view, the growth in sales of hosted, cloud-based Unified Communications services signals clear demand for these valued communication options by enterprises of all sizes,” said Alex Doyle, senior director, global solutions marketing, BroadSoft. “To meet this demand, we believe service providers need both a compelling service offering and a well-armed sales channel. With their innovative hosted UC market offer that leverages both BroadSoft and Microsoft functionality, and their UC Certification training, we believe Alteva has demonstrated excellence in both technology and go-to-market execution.”

Alteva is always looking for new quality organizations to partner with. If you would like to discuss partnership opportunities, contact an Alteva representative at 877-258-3821 or visit www.altevatel.com/forms/partner.aspx.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IPphone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Cuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
acuzzo@mrb-pr.com

WVT Communications Finalizes $17 Million Acquisition of Alteva

2011-08-08T00:00:00-04:00

New Organizational Structure Established

Warwick, NY – August 8, 2011 – Warwick Valley Telephone Company (“WVT Communications”, “WVT” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: WWVY), a full service cloud communications company, has finalized the acquisition of Alteva just weeks after the official announcement. Following the closing, Alteva has begun integrating its operations with the existing cloud communications group of WVT. This strategic move will help the newly merged company significantly strengthen its CLEC business, and expand its cloud strategy for unified communications and hosted applications for small, medium and large enterprise customers.

The executive teams of Alteva and WVT will be integrated and jointly manage the merged operation. The new organizational structure will be as follows:

Duane Albro will remain CEO of WVT.
Ralph Martucci will remain CFO of WVT.
David Cuthbert will serve as COO of WVT and as President of its wholly owned subsidiaries Alteva and USA Datanet.
John S. Mercer will serve as Chief Technology Officer of WVT.
Patrick W. Welsh, III will serve as Chief Administrative Officer of WVT.
Louis Hayner will serve as Chief Sales Officer of WVT and its wholly owned subsidiaries Alteva and USA Datanet.
Mark Marquez, Chief Technology Officer of Alteva, will become Chief Network Officer for WVT and its wholly owned subsidiaries Alteva and USA Datanet.

Alteva founder, William Bumbernick, will continue to contribute as Chief Innovation Consultant to WVT and its wholly owned subsidiaries Alteva and USA Datanet.

About Alteva

About WVT Communications

Warwick Valley Telephone Company (NASDAQ: WWVY) is a global full service cloud communications company with a regional incumbent telecommunications company operating in portions of Orange County New York and northern New Jersey. Through its subsidiaries, Alteva and USA Datanet, and affiliated companies, WVT Communications offers local, long distance, Internet, video, network, unified communications, VoIP and other cloud services. Additional information is available at www.wvtc.com.

Safe Harbor Statement for Warwick Valley Telephone Company

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements, without limitation, regarding expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. The Company intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the safe-harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements or industry results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others the following: general economic and business conditions, both nationally and in the geographic regions in which the Company operates; industry capacity; demographic changes; technological changes and changes in consumer demand; the successful integration of the Company’s acquired businesses, existing governmental regulations and changes in or the failure to comply with, governmental regulations; legislative proposals relating to the businesses in which the Company operates; reduction in cash distributions from the Orange County-Poughkeepsie Limited Partnership; competition; or the loss of any significant ability to attract and retain qualified personnel. Given these uncertainties, current and prospective investors should be cautioned in their reliance on such forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, the Company disclaims any obligation to update any such factors or to publicly announce the results of any revision to any of the forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect future events or developments. A more comprehensive discussion of risks, uncertainties and forward looking statements may be seen in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and other periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

IR contact:

Duane W. Albro

WVT Communications

President & CEO

(845) 986-2100

d.albro@wvtc.com

PR contact:

Angela Tuzzo

MRB Public Relations

732-758-1100, ext. 108

Atuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva to Exhibit at 2011 Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Chicago

2011-08-15T00:00:00-04:00

Polycom to Sponsor Alteva’s Unified Communications Channel Partner Sales Certification Training to be Held in Conjunction with the Show

PHILADELPHIA, PA & CHICAGO, IL – August 15, 2011 – Alteva, a WVT Communications company (NASDAQ: WWVY), and Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced it will exhibit at the 2011 Channel Partners Conference & Expo, August 24-26^th, in Chicago, IL (booth #1234). As the only networking and education event in the communications industry dedicated to the indirect sales channel, the Channel Partners Conference & Expo has tripled in size to more than 3,000 participants, providing exhibitors with a more diverse audience, more traffic and more exposure for their brands over the past decade.

Preceding the show, Alteva will hold its Level 1 UC Sales Certification training course, sponsored by Polycom, on August 22^nd and 23^rd, 9:00am – 4:30pm at The Chicago Firehouse restaurant, located at 1401 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605. A major highlight of Alteva’s recently relaunched Channel Partner Program, the three-tiered UC Sales Certification training includes a technical overview of UC, education programming on how to sell and position UC, and impact/reinforcement training led by the Sandler Institute, a world leader in innovative sales and sales management training.

“The Channel Partners Conference & Expo is an industry event for agents, VARs, systems integrators, interconnects and consultants, that focuses on how they can transform their business to become the next generation solution providers. Since the show’s messaging is consistent with Alteva’s, it was a no brainer to hold our UC training in conjunction with the show, especially since many of our partners will be in attendance,” said Louis Hayner, chief sales officer of WVT and its wholly owned subsidiaries Alteva and USA Datanet. “We are excited to have Polycom on board as our sponsor and look forward to connecting with our partners and other channel partners at the show.”

Alteva’s UC Sales Certification training enhances the value of Alteva’s master agents, agents and referral partners by helping them learn how to position Alteva’s cloud-based UC solution – which consists of hosted VoIP integrated with Microsoft Communication Services – expand their offerings, boost revenues and increase market share.

For more information about Alteva’s channel partner program, or to discuss partnership opportunities at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, be sure to visit Alteva in booth #1234, where Alteva’s channel managers will showcase their cloud-based UC solutions. Additionally, channel managers from fellow WVT subsidiary, USA Datanet, a pioneer in Voice over IP and full-service nationwide telecommunications company, will also be available to discuss small business related partnership opportunities in the Alteva booth. You can also contact an Alteva representative at 877-258-3821 or visit http://www.altevatel.com/partners/channel-partners.

About Alteva:

Alteva, a WVT Communications company (NASDAQ: WWVY), and Unified Communications(UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IP phone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:

Angela Tuzzo

MRB Public Relations

732-758-1100, ext. 108

atuzzo@mrb-pr.com

WVT Communications Acquisition Gets Industry Recognition

2011-08-29T00:00:00-04:00

Warwick, NY – August 29, 2011. WVT Communications’ (NASDAQ: WWVY) recent acquisition of Philadelphia-based Alteva, LLC has many in the industry taking notice. With the recent spurt of mergers and acquisitions in the telecom technology sector, the WVT-Alteva deal has been rated in the top ten to watch according to CRN.com in its 08/18/11 article “12 Recent Networking Mergers and Acquisitions To Keep An Eye On; And Then There Were Fewer.” Here are excerpts of what they had to say:

“The networking, infrastructure and telecom spaces have been consolidating like crazy in recent years…since (April 2011) some of the most eye-opening M&A moves of the year have been proposed or completed. Here's a look at 12 recent networking acquisitions every channel partner with an interest in the market should keep an eye on.” (Number 10 on the list is the WVT Communications-Alteva acquisition).

“Why It Matters: More consolidation among service providers, and in this case, a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), Warwick (Valley Telephone), snapping up a hosted VoIP specialist, Alteva. Alteva has been an up and comer in the channel for some years thanks to how it interconnects its hosted UC services with Microsoft’s UC platform and makes those options available to VAR’s (value added reseller) agents, and wholesalers as wholesale and/or white label products.”

The entire article can be found at http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/networking/231500187/12-recent-networking-mergers-and-acquisitions-to-keep-an-eye-on.htm

WVT (NASDAQ: WWVY) is a leading edge voice, video, broadband, wireless and unified communications provider serving consumers and businesses in the Mid-Atlantic region and the Northeast corridor, with a 100+ year track record of innovation and superior customer service.

IR contact:

Duane W. Albro

WVT Communications President & CEO

(845) 986-2100

d.albro@wvtc.com

PR contact:

Angela Tuzzo

MRB Public Relations

732-758-1100, ext. 108

Atuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Warwick Valley Telephone Company (WVT Communications) Chief Executive Officer Discusses the Evolution of Telecommunications

2011-09-08T00:00:00-04:00

Warwick, NY – September 8, 2011 – Mr. Duane W. Albro, President and Chief Executive Officer of Warwick Valley Telephone Company (“WVT Communications,” “WVT” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:WWVY), recently spoke to Global M&A Network on such topics as the evolution of the telecommunications industry and the growth of his company’s business in areas utilizing leading-edge technology with emphasis on the fast-growing cloud communications arena. Mr. Albro specifically referenced WVT’s recent acquisition of Philadelphia-based Alteva, LLC and emphasized the value of the new company’s outstanding leadership team and how quickly the company is moving forward with its integration process.

DEAL MAKER SPOTLIGHT — DUANE W. ALBRO

"We are seeking to determine if the target meets our strategic criteria of scope and scale, business synergies and shared values."

DUANE W. ALBRO

President and Chief Executive Officer

WVT Communications

Duane Albro spoke to Global M&A Network about the evolution of the telecommunications industry, their collaborative team approach combined with an Acquisition Screening Evaluation tool for screening deals, the red flag indicators that break a deal, as well as his insights on pursing a competitive expansion strategy in the fast growing cloud-computing arena as demonstrated by WVT's recent purchase of Alteva LLC.

Q: How has the telecommunication industry evolved given your thirty-five plus years of experience in the industry?

Mr. Albro: Telecom has moved from being a circuit switched, voice communications world with switching nodes that set up calls from one address (telephone number) to another, to being a free-flowing data pipe moving enormous volumes of digital data around the world in nanoseconds.

As computer processing power and cloud computing continues their exponential growth, the data centers that support the cloud and backbone network, as well as the local access transport necessary to carry this data, must keep pace. Some people say cloud computing is a return to the old mainframe computer time share services but its radically different in that cloud computing is hosted software applications rather than simply mainframe processing capacity and the growth in hosted business apps will continue to fuel the fast-growing cloud-based world.

Q: The telecommunications sector has been consolidating during the past two years. What are the underlying elements driving the M&A activity in the telecommunications sector in North America?

Mr. Albro: As the panoply of RLECs (small regional/rural ILECs) continue to face cable competition and wireless substitution, exacerbated by FCC moves to shift the subsidy of the landline telephone and with the rapid emergence of cloud computing, they must redefine their business for survival. The RLECs must also find alternate sources of revenue or consolidate to restructure their cost structures. This trend is quickly reaching critical mass at the same time that the larger ILECs are faced with very similar issues.

There are a limited number of ways to diversify without losing touch with their core competencies. Many of the larger ILECs long ago moved solidly into wireless and are now diversifying by buying data centers to reduce cloud-computing costs and they are selling off much of their less-dense more-rural customer base. At the same time, many medium size ILECs are emulating the large ILECs by buying data centers and others are building or buying CLECs in contiguous areas while others are looking to cloud-computing. Each company is solidifying their strategic play but all of the smart ones are clearly looking for a new diverse path to profitability.

Q: In regards to WVT’s strategic growth plans, does the company plan to grow organically or through add-on acquisitions?

Mr. Albro: We have been candid with our shareholders about our need to grow our CLEC business because of the decline in residence access lines in our ILEC. For several years we’ve noted our intent to build or buy in the CLEC space. In 2009 we acquired USA Datanet in Syracuse, NY, a CLEC that was contiguous to our WVT CLEC operations in NY State. We then began migrating our entire WVT CLEC operation under USA Datanet, while also building our own cloud-computing unified communications company within USA Datanet. We have been very successful in using this edge-out strategy in both the hosted apps we provide our customers and the territories in which we operate. We will continue with this very successful strategy and we will build or buy.

Q: How does WVT identify and evaluate acquisition targets?

Mr. Albro: We look for more than just increasing scale and scope by adding territories or products. We also look for synergies between the two companies as well as shared values. Our top leaders, the CFO, COO and I, work with our board of directors to gain consensus on potential target areas. Essentially, the strategic view is developed by our CXOs and thoroughly reviewed and discussed with the board and, once we have consensus, the CXOs begin compiling the targets. We also work our network of established contacts both within the telecom/communications industry and with investment bankers with whom we have long-standing relationships.

Q: Is there an internal checklist to determine whether to pursue an acquisition opportunity deal?

Mr. Albro: We do compile a list of targets and I personally reach out to the CEOs of the respective targets and begin discussions. If the discussions move into the stage of potential acquisition talks, we then use an Acquisition Screening Evaluation tool that assists in evaluating the deal in several dimensions.

Generally, we are seeking to determine if the target meets our strategic criteria of scope and scale, business synergies and shared values. Then our tool enables us to develop a priority order for potential acquisitions. In all cases, our board requires that any acquisition be accretive to earnings so that is also a key criteria.

Q: In general, what are potential "deal breakers" during the due diligence process of a potential target?

Mr. Albro: The first insight to potential deal breakers is the ease with which a target can provide critical information. If a target is slow to respond, it can be an indication of a lack of professionalism and a possible sign of poor management. Any misrepresentations, especially financial ones, are an immediate alarm and probable deal breakers.

Other probable deal breakers are finding indications of declining markets or declining company performance results and any clear indications of a lack of values in the treatment of employees. Definite deal breakers are demands by a target that are either financially or operationally unattainable and a deal that is either too costly or un-accretive.

Q: Does the deal structure make a difference in achieving financial objectives as it relates to M&A?

Mr. Albro: The deal structure definitely makes a difference. Except for very small acquisitions, we require a three part deal structure, that is cash + earn-out + stock. The cash is because we are a conservatively managed company with very little leverage and we are prudent in managing our balance sheet. The earn-out is an assurance that the business performance of the target will continue and the stock portion of the deal is longer-term assurance that the target will have a vested interest in the long-term performance of our business.

Q: Congratulations on recent acquisition of Alteva. How was this deal identified?

Mr. Albro: Alteva was identified, from several sources, as a leading-edge cloud-computing company with a high-growth trajectory. Sources included CEOs in the cloud- computing sector as well as investment bankers, which highly recommended Alteva because of their apparent corporate values of caring for customers and employees. As talks ensued over many months, it became clear that this was a game-changer for WVT.

Q: Looking ahead, what are clear benefits in acquiring Alteva?

Mr. Albro: Alteva brought significant strengths in their sales process and solid sales performance, where we did not. It was facing a need for serious personnel growth and financial resources to sustain their market growth and we had both available resources form our declining ILEC business and financial resources from our fiscally conservative management of our business.

Alteva was also a leading-edge provider of hosted app products that WVT, through our USA Datanet subsidiary, was attempting to grow but with less success than Alteva. Its customer base was more up-market in the medium-large-enterprise space while USA Datanet’s was down-market in the SMB space. More importantly, Alteva brought a CXO team that shared our values and had the potential to take over and run our cloud-computing business. The synergies clearly stood out from all the other targets we were considering.

Q: In your experience, how relevant is it to have an integration plan in achieving synergistic value? What makes for a successful integration having previously acquired assets of USA Datanet in 2009, and presently Alteva?

Mr. Albro: An integration plan is a mandatory step to achieving any synergies. Our integration plan for Alteva was being jointly formulated at the same time we were negotiating our definitive agreement.

The moment we signed our closing documents our integration team very actively began its work. We conducted a full day orientation for the new senior leadership team (all director-levels and higher) within three business days of closing. At that time we also reviewed our shared values of caring for customer and employees, the way we will manage our business and thoroughly reviewed the new leadership assignments and integration roles for each one of the business leaders. It is an example of the classic business principle that “without a road map you may never reach your destination.”

Q: In closing, what book are you currently reading?

Mr. Albro: I’m currently re-reading Judith Bardwick’s Danger in the Comfort Zone because it addresses the need to understand diverse business cultures and offers keen insights to building leadership teams that work collaboratively.

For full access to Mr. Albro’s complete interview please go to: http://www.wvtc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=419&Itemid=397

About WVT Communications

Warwick Valley Telephone Company (“WVT Communications,” “WVT” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: WWVY) is a global full service cloud communications company with a regional incumbent telecommunications company operating in portions of Orange County New York and northern New Jersey. Through its subsidiaries, Alteva and USA Datanet, and affiliated companies, WVT Communications offers local, long distance, Internet, video, network, unified communications, VoIP and other cloud services. Additional information is available at http://www.wvtc.com/.

Safe Harbor Statement for Warwick Valley Telephone Company

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements, without limitation, regarding expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. The Company intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the safe-harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements or industry results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the following: general economic and business conditions, both nationally and in the geographic regions in which the Company operates; industry capacity; demographic changes; technological changes and changes in consumer demand; the successful integration of the Company’s acquired businesses; existing governmental regulations and changes in, or the failure to comply with, governmental regulations; legislative proposals relating to the businesses in which the Company operates; reduction in cash distributions from the Orange County-Poughkeepsie Limited Partnership; competition; or the loss of any significant ability to attract and retain qualified personnel. Given these uncertainties, current and prospective investors should be cautioned in their reliance on such forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, the Company disclaims any obligation to update any such factors or to publicly announce the results of any revision to any of the forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect future events or developments. A more comprehensive discussion of risks, uncertainties and forward-looking statements may be seen in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and other periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

IR contact:

Duane W. Albro

WVT Communications

President & CEO

(845) 986-2100

d.albro@wvtc.com

PR contact:

Angela Tuzzo

MRB Public Relations

732-758-1100, ext. 108

Atuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Chief Innovation Consultant to Speak at ITEXPO West 2011

2011-09-12T00:00:00-04:00

Implementing Unified Communications Solutions to Increase Workplace Productivity

PHILADELPHIA, PA & AUSTIN, TX – September 12, 2011 – Alteva, a WVT Communications company (NASDAQ: WWVY), and cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced that its Founder and Chief Innovation Consultant, William Bumbernick, will join executives from leading business communications companies, Digium, Fonality, and ICON Voice Networks, on a SMB panel at ITEXPO West, September 13-15th in Austin, TX. The session titled, “Unified Communications Unleashed,” will take place September 14th from 9:00-9:45am.

A recent study undertaken by Webtorials found that reducing an employee’s unproductive time by 25 percent can yield an extra six weeks in productivity each year, per employee, which should be an immediate call to action for business owners to fix these inefficient communications issues. This session will discuss the true benefits of UC for the SMB market, including best practices, deployment options, strategic opportunities, integration into existing processes and technologies, and end user education. Attendees will leave with a clear goal to drive UC implementation in their businesses.

“There are many different drivers when it comes to creating efficiency and improving workplace productivity. Implementing various types of technologies, especially those of a collaborative nature, top that list including hosted VoIP and UC,” said Bumbernick. “Not only will collaborative technologies save money, but allow businesses to streamline processes, permitting more time to concentrate on what they do best – be it customer service, sales, or innovation.”

ITEXPO is the event with an educational program that teaches resellers, enterprises, SMBs, and Government Agencies how to select IP-based voice, video, fax, and unified communications to purchase or resell. It's where service providers learn how to profitably roll out services their subscribers are clamoring for. ITEXPO is where buyers, sellers, resellers, and manufacturers meet to forge relationships and close deals.

About Alteva:

Alteva, a WVT Communications company (NASDAQ: WWVY), and cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IP phone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:

Angela Tuzzo

MRB Public Relations

732-758-1100, ext. 108

atuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Warwick Valley Telephone Company’s Full Service Telecommunications Management Team Integrated

2011-09-14T00:00:00-04:00

Warwick, NY – September 14, 2011 – Warwick Valley Telephone Company (“WVT Communications,” “WVT” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:WWVY) announced today that it has completed the integration of the management team of its full service telecommunications company associated with its recent acquisition of Alteva LLC, a cloud-based unified communications (“UC”) solutions provider and North America’s largest enterprise hosted Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) provider. WVT operates in Southern Orange County, New York; portions of Central New York and New Jersey; and the greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region. President and Chief Executive Officer, Duane W. Albro has announced that since the official closing of the acquisition of Alteva LLC on August 5, 2011, the Company has identified its executive level and management leadership teams with all employees aligned in functional roles to serve the Company’s broad customer base. Additionally, all sales, marketing, operations and corporate support organizations have developed and are implementing comprehensive transition plans to continue the integration. Mr. Albro stated, “Before we even closed on our Alteva acquisition we had a plan for the integration of our two companies. As prime evidence of the tremendous effectiveness of our newly combined teams, we have accomplished the integration of our leadership team in record time and we are now fully functioning with completely integrated management responsibilities.” Below is the organizational chart that reflects the completed integration of the executive and management leadership teams:

About WVT Communications

Safe Harbor Statement for Warwick Valley Telephone Company

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements, without limitation, regarding expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. The Company intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the safe-harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements or industry results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the following: general economic and business conditions, both nationally and in the geographic regions in which the Company operates; industry capacity; demographic changes; technological changes and changes in consumer demand; the successful integration of the Company’s acquired businesses; existing governmental regulations and changes in, or the failure to comply with, governmental regulations; legislative proposals relating to the businesses in which the Company operates; reduction in cash distributions from the Orange County-Poughkeepsie Limited Partnership; competition; or the loss of any significant ability to attract and retain qualified personnel. Given these uncertainties, current and prospective investors should be cautioned in their reliance on such forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, the Company disclaims any obligation to update any such factors or to publicly announce the results of any revision to any of the forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect future events or developments. A more comprehensive discussion of risks, uncertainties and forward-looking statements may be seen in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and other periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

IR contact:

Duane W. Albro

WVT Communications President & CEO

(845) 986-2100

d.albro@wvtc.com

PR contact:

Angela Tuzzo

MRB Public Relations

732-758-1100, ext. 108

Atuzzo@mrb-pr.com

WVT Communications Group Chief Operating Officer Featured Keynote Speaker at Cloud Services Summit

2011-10-17T00:00:00-04:00

Monetizing Your Broadband Infrastructure through the Power of the Cloud

WARWICK , NY & NEW ORLEANS, LA – October 17, 2011 – WVT Communications Group (NASDAQ: WWVY), the holding company of leading cloud communications pioneers, today announced that its Chief Operating Officer, David Cuthbert, is a featured keynote speaker at the upcoming Cloud Services Summit, October 25th in New Orleans, LA. Co-located with the TelcoTV Conference and Expo, which draws over 2,500 telecom executives, the executive summit focuses on the cloud services business opportunity for broadband carriers. David will present from 8:45-9:15am.

Many broadband carriers haven’t been able to do much with hosted services yet or are still in the earlier stages of their cloud strategy formulation. In order to get out of being perceived as a typical broadband provider, it’s important that they monetize their broadband infrastructure by embracing the power of the cloud.

“In its 2010 predictions, Gartner predicts that by 2012, twenty percent of businesses will own no IT assets. Businesses are slowly but surely realizing the benefits to the customer of cloud-based technologies are unsurpassed. By monetizing their broadband infrastructure with cloud and managed services, broadband providers can add significant value to their networks,” said Cuthbert. “I am excited to offer my insight and share WVT Communications Group’s vision for cloud and managed services at the Summit, and educate attendees on how the cloud business opportunity can fit into their long term business goals.”

Cloud and managed services represents one of the more promising business opportunities for broadband carriers, giving them tools to escape the ‘dumb pipe’ trap. The Cloud Services Summit will focus on important cloud and managed services topics including the growing role of video service delivery from the cloud, the growing importance of the data center to broadband carriers, and an exploration of the impact of both business and consumer apps from the cloud.

The event will provide educational, networking, and business development opportunities for both the broadband carrier and cloud services ecosystems.

About David Cuthbert:

David Cuthbert has over fourteen years of operational management and leadership experience. In 2006, he joined Alteva as the Director of Operations, where he developed scalable processes through automation and employee development to support Alteva’s tremendous growth. In August 2010, David was appointed CEO as part of a strategic move to keep Alteva on top in its industry. His leadership style, combined with knowledge and acumen of the communications industry, made David the ideal candidate to continue leading Alteva through its industry leading growth.

After Alteva was acquired by WVT Communications Group in August 2011, David was appointed Chief Operating Officer of the company, and President of its wholly owned subsidiaries, USA Datanet and Alteva, where he is now responsible for daily operations of all three companies.

About WVT Communications Group:

WVT Communications Group (NASDAQ: WWVY) is a world technology leader in providing cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solutions for small, medium and enterprise businesses. Founded in 1902, the company has continued to adapt and remain on the forefront of technology, chiseling its position among the oldest, most respected communications vendors on the globe. WVT Communications Group has worked closely with industry leaders like Microsoft, Cisco, BroadSoft, and Polycom to build the ideal hosting architecture for communications.

Through its subsidiaries, USA Datanet (for businesses under 35 employees), Alteva (for businesses over 35 employees and those with branch offices), and Warwick Valley Telephone (a highly respected traditional telecom provider turned premier regional broadband company), WVT Communications Group is enabling businesses of any size to communicate more efficiently with hassle-free communications tools. By overlaying a UC division on its stabile, regional broadband company, WVT Communications Group has transformed its business, creating an evolutionary change in its strategy. With this, WVT Communications Group can offer its residential customers a similar suite of UC applications and services for use in a home environment that their business customers can enjoy. For more information, visit www.wvtc.com or call 855-U-GO-CLOUD.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:

Angela Tuzzo

MRB Public Relations

732-758-1100, ext. 108

atuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Senior Channel Manager to Speak at The Society of Telecommunications Consultants’ 35th Anniversary Fall Conference

2011-10-24T00:00:00-04:00

Bridging the Divide between Premise-based and Hosted Solutions

PHILADELPHIA, PA & ORLANDO, FL – October 24, 2011 – Alteva, a subsidiary of Warwick Valley Telephone Company (NASDAQ: WWVY) referred to as WVT Communications Group, and cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced that its Senior Channel Manager Guy Yasika, will present at The Society of Telecommunications Consultants’ (STC) 2011 Fall Conference, October 25-28 in Orlando, FL. The session titled, “How to Write an Effective RFP that Bridges the Divide between Premise-based and Hosted Solutions,” will take place October 28th, 10:00-10:50am.

“Consultants working with premise-based equipment know how to write a premise RFP, but with the rise of cloud-based technologies, it’s important that the RFP encompasses both technologies,” said Yasika. “There IS a difference between these solutions and it’s not as simple as comparing apples to oranges since they have different associated costs, benefits and are delivered in different ways.” Attendees will learn how to evaluate hosted solutions, enabling them to provide their customer with all available options to help them make an informed decision about which solution best fits their organization.

Yasika will also present an Alteva customer case study during Vendor Day Presentations on Wednesday, October 26th from 9:45-10:05am. Implementing a communications program in advance ensures that best practices and the right technologies are in place. Alteva provided The Greater Kansas City Chapter of the Red Cross with a “call center in a box” – on-demand call center solution – that allows remote agents to provide the whereabouts of disaster victims to relatives and friends. Yasika will discuss utilizing hosted UC solutions for creative uses in an organization’s communication efforts.

The STC Fall conference event features industry leader presentations on emerging technologies, client applications and practice management. The participation of consultant members, leading telecommunications and networking companies and major end users forms a powerful nexus for the exchange of critical information.

About Guy Yasika:

Guy Yasika is a Senior Channel Manager at Alteva, where he has worked since 2007. He is both an evangelist and sales person for UC and an advocate for cloud-based services since 1999. Prior to joining Alteva, Yasika acted as a business consultant, systems analyst and programmer. He has spoken at a number of NY and NJ Oracle Users group events from 1992-2001 and several PA Technology Council events in 2009, presenting on topics including, “How to Think about Disaster Recovery and Your Phone System,” and “How You Can Be More Effective Using Cloud Technologies.”

About Alteva:

Alteva, a WVT Communications Group company, and cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IP phone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:

Angela Tuzzo

MRB Public Relations

732-758-1100, ext. 108

atuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Adds Mozy Data Backup Services to Unified Communications Offerings

2012-01-10T00:00:00-05:00

Cloud-Based Unified Communications Provider Now Authorized Reseller of MozyPro

PHILADELPHIA, PA – January 10, 2012 – Alteva, a subsidiary of Warwick Valley Telephone Company (NASDAQ: WWVY) referred to as WVT Communications Group, and cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, today announced it is now an authorized reseller of MozyPro, a cost-efficient and secure online data backup solution. By joining the Mozy Reseller Program, Alteva can now provide its customers with an award-winning, industry-leading online backup service in addition to its existing hosted VoIP and UC offerings.

“With electronic data on the rise, many companies are transitioning to electronic filing, making automated backup of files crucial. In the event of a disaster, companies should not have to worry about losing critical business data,” said Elizabeth Backus, product manager, Alteva. “While traditional backup solutions can be expensive and take weeks to set up, a reliable online backup solution like MozyPro can be setup by Alteva in a fraction of the time, with no setup fees, or hardware purchases. Additionally, having one provider that offers a complete suite of cloud services eliminates the need to manage multiple vendors.”

MozyPro protects and secures vital documents and information, providing businesses with an easy-to-use web-based administration console to manage them. These data backup products add to Alteva’s growing portfolio of cloud services including hosted VoIP, hosted Microsoft Communication Services (Microsoft Exchange, Share Point and OCS with voice integration), fixed mobile convergence, video and web conferencing, advanced voice applications for PCs, data connectivity, and more.

“Data backup is a critically important consideration when planning for disaster recovery. If you don’t have a consistent strategy for backup, you are opening the door to liabilities and huge losses in revenue and reputation,” said Louis Hayner, executive vice president and chief sales officer, Alteva. “By providing MozyPro back up services through Alteva we can present our customers with another trusted solution that will protect their business from data loss and help them avoid costly delays in the event of downtime.”

For more information about Alteva’s MozyPro services visit www.altevatel.com/solutions/data-backup.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a WVT Communications Group company, and cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IP phone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Tuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
atuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva CSO to Discuss Cloud Opportunities in the Channel at UC3 Summit

2012-02-06T00:00:00-05:00

Channel Conference Focuses on Unified Communications, Collaboration and Cloud Solutions for SMBs

PHILADELPHIA, PA & SCOTTSDALE, AZ – February 6, 2012 – Alteva, a leading cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider that is a subsidiary of Warwick Valley Telephone Company (NASDAQ: WWVY) (referred to as WVT Communications Group), today announced that its Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer Louis Hayner will join executives from Communication Resources Inc. (CRI), j2 Global Communications, Meetrix, SimpleSignal and TrueCloud to discuss “The Great Cloud Debate – Is It For Everyone?” at the UC3 Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona on February 8th from 3:05-3:45pm. Panelists will discuss the various cloud models available on the market today and explore security and financial issues and how they relate to the end user and channel partner community.

“Since channel partners have many choices when it comes to vendors, it is important that they understand the current technological capabilities of their vendor marketplace. With this knowledge, channel sales partners may effectively solve their customers’ challenges by providing the latest solutions currently in demand that will also increase their revenue opportunities,” said Hayner. “Education is crucial if the channel community is ever going to fully leverage the cloud. It’s no longer a matter of selling on cost, but more about selling on the benefits of these solutions.”

Hayner is regarded as a champion of the channel partner sales model. Under his leadership, the sales channel at Alteva has grown substantially in the past five years, culminating in Alteva being acquired by WVT Communications Group in late 2011. Playing a critical part in Alteva’s growth, Hayner spearheaded the launch of Alteva’s Wholesale and Channel Partner programs, while helping grow the company’s revenue by 62% within the first year. Additionally, Alteva Regional Sales Manager Guy Yasika will participate on a UC industry panel at the CompTIA UC & Collaboration Industry Symposium, a pre-day event for the UC3 Summit, on February 6th at 1:30pm. Key industry constituents from NACR, The Via Group and other UC experts will join Yasika in a discussion about how the latest industry developments are impacting their businesses on a practical level.

For more information or for quality organizations wanting to discuss partnership opportunities, visit http://www.altevatel.com/partners/channel-partners.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a WVT Communications Group company, and cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IP phone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Tuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
atuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva Partners with Parallels to Provide Hosted VoIP Services to Cloud Services Customers

2012-02-16T00:00:00-05:00

Implementing Hosted VoIP with Parallels Automation Offers Affordable Solutions for SMBs

ORLANDO, FL and PHILADELPHIA, PA– February 16, 2012 – Alteva, a leading cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider and subsidiary of Warwick Valley Telephone Company (NASDAQ: WWVY) (referred to as WVT Communications Group), today announced its new partnership with Parallels, the hosting and cloud services enablement leader. The announcement was made in Orlando during Parallels Summit 2012, an event that attracts a global audience of over 1,200 leading participants from across the cloud and hosting industry.

Through the APS BroadSoft beta program, Parallels will provide its customers access to a turn-key hosted VoIP white label solution. The APS BroadSoft beta program is a way to jumpstart the on-boarding of new clients for the Parallels community and will provide SMB customers with a route to further leverage additional cloud services as part of their growth strategy.

“The Parallels community is already receptive to cloud-based communication solutions, especially with the growing demand for hosted PBX services at smaller businesses,” said Louis Hayner, Chief Sales Officer, Alteva. “Alteva’s hosted VoIP services, delivered through Parallels Automation, will enable SMBs to continue to compete in their market by utilizing technologies from the cloud—something that they have been seeking for a long time.”

Parallels Automation, combined with Alteva’s wholesale business model, offers service providers a turnkey portfolio of communication services. As Alteva hosted VoIP wholesalers, Parallels customers will benefit from unparalleled telecommunications continuity, vendor/phone bill consolidation, scalability, increased control, business continuity and mitigation of technology obsolescence.

In addition to Alteva’s Hosted VoIP platform, Alteva will provide:

Provisioning and billing reporting
Training on the reseller portal for configuration & support
Training on license and billing management
Billing reports
Usage reports
Initial / Ongoing sales & marketing support

“Parallels SMB Cloud Insights™ research indicates that hosted PBX services are expected to grow by 75% worldwide over the next three years, representing a huge opportunity for service providers,” said John Zanni, Parallels VP of Service Provider Marketing and Alliances. “We are excited to work with Alteva to make it easy for Parallels partners to deliver hosted PBX services to their SMB customers."

Through its partnership with Microsoft and Broadsoft, Alteva’s hosted VoIP services will enable Parallels to expand its portfolio of cloud-based offerings to its over 10 million customers in 125 countries, helping service providers to increase their monthly ARPU by an average of $37/user.

“Parallels is already selling hosted Exchange and other desktop services from the cloud,” added Hayner. “Now, instead of their customers going somewhere else for VoIP services, they can stick with Parallels Partners for all of their business needs. The very nature of our product will enable Parallels Partners to increase brand awareness, while providing additional ‘stickiness’ to their customer base so that they can put all of their focus on increasing sales and up-selling other hosted services.”

About Alteva:
Alteva, a WVT Communications Group company, and cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IP phone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Tuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
atuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Fed Up With Your Business Phone System? Alteva Answers the Call with a 35-Seat Communications Makeover in its “My Phone Stinks” Contest

2012-03-13T00:00:00-04:00

PHILADELPHIA, PA – March 13, 2012 – Unified communications (“UC”) solutions for today’s businesses have transformed the way companies communicate. UC in the cloud has further revolutionized the way employees – on- and off-site – interact and interface. Now there's a way for your business to drop its outdated phone system to get the most cutting-edge business communications solution free for a year.

Anyone for a contest?

Alteva, a leading cloud-based UC solution provider and subsidiary of Warwick Valley Telephone Company (NASDAQ: WWVY) (referred to as WVT Communications Group), will award an entire Alteva Unified Communications solution of up to 35 seats to the winning company in the “My Phone Stinks” contest. There’s a reason why Alteva’s growth has been off the charts, and there’s no reason why your company should be left behind. With Alteva’s “My Phone Stinks” contest, one lucky company will get the communications makeover of a lifetime. There is a residency requirement: entries will be accepted from businesses in the Greater Philadelphia area (including the following counties: Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware, Chester and Bucks, PA; Mercer, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem, NJ; and New Castle, DE).

The prize, worth nearly $40,900, includes up to 35 phones, installation fees, and one year of UC service, including hosted Voice over IP integrated with Microsoft Communication Services (Exchange, OCS and SharePoint). The winner also will receive licenses for all software and two training sessions with an Alteva corporate trainer. (After one year, the winner may choose to pay monthly license and usage fees to continue the service or end service.)

Those entering should visit http://www.MyPhoneStinks.com and provide the required information about your business in the form and submit a short essay explaining exactly why your existing phone system stinks. As much as you may hate your inadequate phone system, profanity won't score you any points. A well-reasoned essay on what you presently lack – and desperately need – in your business communications system definitely may, in a manner of speaking, answer the call. Entries must be 700 words or less, and may be displayed on the website for the duration of the contest. No cash or purchase is necessary to enter.

The contest deadline is May 31, 2012. A winner will be selected by a panel comprised of officers from the donating companies, and the winner will be announced on the website on June 8, 2012. The executive team of the winning company will be invited to the grand opening party of Alteva’s new Philadelphia office and presentation center in June.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a WVT Communications Group company, and cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IP phone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Contact:
Alan Appel or Melissa Lande
Lande Communications
212-706-9003
mlande@landepr.com

Alteva to Participate at 2012 Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Las Vegas

2012-03-27T00:00:00-04:00

Bridging the Divide between Premises- and Cloud-Based Solutions

PHILADELPHIA, PA & LAS VEGAS, NV – March 27, 2012 – Alteva, a leading cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider and subsidiary of Warwick Valley Telephone Company (NASDAQ: WWVY) (referred to as WVT Communications Group), today announced it will exhibit and participate at the 2012 Channel Partners Conference & Expo, the communications industry's only event exclusively for indirect sales organizations, March 26-29, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Alteva’s contribution to the conference will reveal the best ways [for sales agents] to demonstrate [for their end-user customers] the benefits of highly efficient and productive cloud-based UC solutions as compared to legacy telecommunications.

Louis Hayner, executive vice president and chief sales officer, and Guy Yasika, regional sales manager, will present for Alteva on the topic of, “How to Write an Effective RFP that Bridges the Divide between Premises-based and Hosted Solutions,” as part of the vendor presentations on Wednesday, March 28, from 3:00-3:50pm. Additionally, Alteva executives will showcase their latest product offerings, and discuss how they can help channel partners with their customers, and prepare for increased revenue streams in 2012 and beyond. Alteva, which employs an agent-based sales strategy, has proven that its growth initiatives work. For its parent company WVT Communications Group, Alteva led cloud communications revenues to increase by 226% for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011 as compared with the same period in the prior year, along with WVT Communications Group’s backlog of business customers for UC services to reach a record level at the end of the year.

“Consultants working with premises-based equipment know how to write a premises-based RFP, but with the rise of cloud-based technologies, it’s important that an RFP encompasses both technologies. It’s not as simple as comparing apples to oranges as they have different associated costs, benefits and delivery mechanisms,” said Hayner. “Attendees will learn how to evaluate cloud-based solutions, as well as the basic rules to follow that will help clients determine which direction is the best fit for them and then which types of questions should be included to complete an RFP. Providing the customer with all available options will help them make an informed decision about which solution best fits their organization.”

“Imagine how hard and frustrating it would be for a hosted provider to respond to questions in an RFP that do not ‘fit’ their solution. Then, imagine how much harder it is for the consultant to compare the responses when the proposals from the hosted and premises-based providers are turned in,” said Yasika. “Many consultants have faced this situation, but may not even know it. We look forward to presenting attendees with a very important issue that could make a huge impact on their business.”

Alteva will also participate in the Selling Techniques Networking Luncheon on Tuesday, March 27, from 11:30am-1:00 pm. The sold out event provides channel partners with a unique opportunity to talk with peers in a casual setting about successful sales strategies for the industry’s hottest products, including cloud computing and communications, conferencing and collaboration, SIP trunking, MPLS and more. Hayner will participate as the industry thought leader for the UC category.

The Channel Partners Conference & Expo is the only networking and educational event in the communications industry dedicated to the indirect sales channel. For more information about Alteva’s channel partner program or to discuss partnership opportunities at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, be sure to visit Alteva in booth #607 or visit http://www.altevatel.com/partners/channel-partners for more information.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a WVT Communications Group company, and cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IP phone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents. For more information, visit http://www.altevatel.com and the Alteva YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/AltevaLLC or call 1-877-258-3821.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Tuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
atuzzo@mrb-pr.com

Alteva CSO to Participate in All About the Cloud Conference in San Francisco

2012-05-07T00:00:00-04:00

Building a Successful Partner Ecosystem with the Cloud

PHILADELPHIA, PA & SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 7, 2012 – Alteva, a leading cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider and subsidiary of Warwick Valley Telephone Company (NASDAQ: WWVY) (referred to as WVT Communications Group), today announced that Chief Sales Officer Louis Hayner will join other leading cloud executives from CloudTrigger, LLC, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Corent Technology, Inc., and NetSuite to discuss “Building a Successful Partner Ecosystem” at the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)’s All About the Cloud conference in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, May 9, from 2:00-2:45 pm pacific time.

Executives from independent software vendors (ISVs), resellers, platform and infrastructure providers, along with industry leading analysts, venture capitalists and media will gather to explore, debate and discuss all aspects of cloud computing. During his panel, Hayner, who was recently recognized as a 2012 Channel Chief by the technology channel trade publication CRN, will offer insights about how service providers can help partners take advantage of the cloud, how to build important partner ecosystems to maximize success, and what pitfalls to avoid along the way. In less than six years, Alteva has grown into North America’s largest enterprise hosted Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) provider, and has leveraged this position to expand its offerings to include a comprehensive suite of unified communications and hosted applications.

“As more software applications enter the cloud, newer market opportunities are created for cloud channels. However, problems arise when companies are not able to grow their business due to the lack of education surrounding cloud strategies,” said Hayner. “Despite the various commonalities and differences with partners, everyone has a place in the cloud ecosystem. Attendees will learn about the core principals on how to utilize their partners, the importance of channel education to help broaden expertise and technical background, and how to take advantage of the different technology distribution channels to help grow their business with the cloud.”

Last year, Hayner launched Alteva’s UC Sales Certification Program to help the channel develop its skills in solution selling. The certification program allows channel partners to learn how to position Alteva’s cloud based UC solution, expand their offerings, boost revenues and increase market share. As a result of Hayner’s sales leadership and the successful implementation of channel marketing strategies, Alteva led cloud communications revenues at WVT Communications Group to increase by 226% in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011 as compared with the same period in the prior year, along with the Company’s backlog of business customers for UC services to reach a record level at the end of the year.

For more information about Alteva, visit http://www.altevatel.com, the Alteva YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/AltevaLLC or call 1-877-258-3821.

About Alteva:
Alteva, a WVT Communications Group company and cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider headquartered in Philadelphia, offers the most reliable network, the most responsive and proactive customer service and the best value to its customers. It delivers cloud-based UC solutions including Voice over IP phone systems and service (VoIP PBX), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence, and advanced voice applications for the desktop. Alteva’s service requires minimal installation and configuration while eliminating monthly phone and on-premise system maintenance charges, reducing overall communication costs and enabling organizations to improve productivity. By combining Alteva’s voice service with Microsoft Communication Services products, including Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint, Alteva’s customers receive a true, high-quality, voice-enabled UC solution that easily integrates with existing business applications. Based in Philadelphia, Alteva is North America’s largest provider of enterprise hosted VoIP, and provides hosted UC solutions to businesses in all 50 states and four continents.

###

All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

PR Contact:
Angela Tuzzo
MRB Public Relations
732-758-1100, ext. 108
atuzzo@mrb-pr.com