PRODUCT NEWS

Global Crossing Expands VoIP Local Service to Nine More Countries and Enhances VoIP Services in the UK

Global Crossing has once again broadened the scope and reach of its Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services for customers around the world by extending its VoIP Local Service to six more European countries and three in Latin America. The addition of Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland brings to 20 the total number of countries worldwide where the service is offered.

The newly available VoIP Local Service offering complements the existing suite of VoIP Outbound and converged IP services in these markets. VoIP Local Service also is available in Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Global Crossing VoIP Outbound™ services are available from 29 countries around the world and provide the consistency customers require from global services.

In addition, since the UK is a critical growth market for Global Crossing, the company has enhanced its UK VoIP Local Service with emergency dialing services and Local Number Portability (LNP).

With its new emergency calling services in the UK, Global Crossing will provide call routing and associated information, including trace back and call identification, via 999 or 112 to emergency service operators, so they can correctly identify the caller's registered location to emergency services personnel.

Global Crossing's standard Local Services offer in the UK now also includes local number portability. This lets telephone subscribers retain their phone numbers when they switch local carriers, avoiding the cost and inconvenience associated with changing to a new number.

Global Crossing VoIP Local Service is an inbound local service that provides nationwide Direct Inward Dialing/Direct Dial Inward (DID/DDI) functionality through a single IP interconnection. The service lets customers originate traffic on the public switched telephone network (PSTN) in different countries. The traffic is then converted to VoIP on Global Crossing's network and delivered to the customer's IP network. VoIP Local Service eliminates traditional time division multiplexing (TDM), private line and foreign exchange service fees by providing a single IP connection to serve multiple markets.