i2Telecom Awarded INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazines Product of the Year Award for 2008
Wednesday January 28, 8:00 am ET
i2Telecoms MyGlobalTalk Service Honored for Outstanding Innovation
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--i2Telecom International, Inc. ("i2Telecom®") (OTCBB: ITUI), a leading developer of award-winning patented and innovative high-quality mobile applications and services, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)’s INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazine (www.itmag.com) has named i2Telecom’s MyGlobalTalk™ service as a recipient of a 2008 Product of the Year Award. This is i2Telecom’s ninth award in recent years after receiving Product of the Year Awards in 2004 and 2007 and the Service Provider of the Year Award in 2005. INTERNET TELEPHONY® has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998™.
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MyGlobalTalk™, i2Telecom’s internally developed proprietary technology, is a new and advanced mobile application targeting the mobile handset market. MyGlobalTalk™ places Internet telephony in the hands of every cellular phone user, independent of wireless carrier technology, handset manufacturer, or the type of wireless carrier voice/data plan involved. The objective is to enable mobile users to access Internet telephony communications in a completely “untethered” manner via their MyGlobalTalk™ enabled cellular phone. Once MyGlobalTalk™ is installed on cellular handsets, users are able to call any telephone in the world directly from their cellular phones, using VoIP technology, at a fraction of normal long-distance rates. In addition, MyGlobalTalk™ is fully functional without requiring local access to the Internet or proximity to an Internet “hotspot”. Users also need not wait for the availability of dual-mode WiFi phones, because MyGlobalTalk™ provides the benefits of a dual-mode phone at a fraction of the cost, using the customer’s existing mobile handset.
MyGlobalTalk™ customers with SmartPhone handsets that utilize the Windows Mobile® 5.0/6.0, Blackberry, Symbian, Google G1 Android or iPhone operating systems can seamlessly call anywhere in the world for as little as $0.02 to $0.03 per minute with no change in user behavior. For additional information please visit www.myglobaltalk.com.
Paul Arena, Chairman of the Board and CEO of i2Telecom International, Inc., stated: “We are pleased to again be recognized as a recipient of INTERNET TELEPHONY®'s Product of the Year Award. Our team's innovation has brought ease-of-use into the world of VoIP services through our exciting new MyGlobalTalk™ service. MyGlobalTalk™ users now have the ability to make calls anywhere in the world over the i2Telecom’s network using their current cellular phones.”
“In 2009, we look forward to taking advantage of MyGlobalTalk™’s portable technology, which is rapidly gaining traction, by leveraging the exponential growth of our customer base and growing distribution base,” continued Mr. Arena. “Furthermore, it is our goal to maximize the value of our expanding patent portfolio and aggressively pursuing additional intellectual property value propositions through such technologies as MyGlobalTalk™.”
Rich Tehrani, Group Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY® stated, “Each year INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have successfully pursued excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. i2Telecom has demonstrated to the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY® that its products and services are committed to quality and innovation while addressing important needs in the marketplace.”
The Product of the Year Award winners for 2008 will be published in the February 2009 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazine.
