Global Crossing adds more Europe, Latin America, Asia

Almost twenty years later, the Berlin Wall has finally fallen for Global Crossing and its VoIP service.

Yesterday, representatives of Global Crossing it has made its VoIP outbound service available to both enterprise and carrier customers in a handful of Central and Eastern Europe nations together with some parts of Latin America and the Asian Pacific region that had heretofore been uncovered by the service.

In Central and Eastern Europe, Global Crossing VoIP outbound service has arrived in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. In Western and Northern Europe, Finland and Portugal join the coverage.

In the Asian Pacific and Latin America regions, Global Crossing extended availability of VoIP outbound service to Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong and Singapore.

The company brain trust also announced enhancement of their services in intra-country dialing to enterprise customers in five more European countries. This expanded service availability and enhanced capability promises to complement existing VoIP services in Europe and North America.

Global’s VoIP outbound service had already been available in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The happy Global Crossing family now numbers 28.

In planning for future expansion, Global Crossing continues to invest in its global VoIP infrastructure and has recently deployed two session border controllers in Hong Kong for more VoIP services in Asian Pacific markets.

New session border controller pairs have been deployed in Washington, D.C., and Amsterdam in an attempt to add capacity to support the growth of VoIP traffic in these regions.

Global Crossing offers a complete portfolio of VoIP services, including VoIP On-Net Plus, VoIP Toll-Free and VoIP Local Services. Figures released by the company alongside the expansion announcement show that, by the end of the second quarter of 2006, IP interconnected VoIP traffic was at over 300 million minutes per month. Global Crossing’s VoIP platform reportedly currently carries approximately 2.5 billion minutes per month.

Global Crossing provides telecommunications solutions over an integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects more than 300 cities in its 28 covered countries, and provides services to more than 600 cities in 60 countries. Global Crossing’s data and voice products including Global Crossing IP VPN Service, Global Crossing Managed Services and Global Crossing VoIP services, are now provided to 36 percent of the Fortune 500, plus 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs.