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TWST: What is deltathree?Mr. White: deltathree has been a voice over IP solutions provider since its inception. We have been at this for about a decade now, which makes us one of the founding companies in the voice over IP space. We have literally seen a sea change a couple of times now in terms of people talking about the technology versus people adopting it. I think the truly exciting part of the day and age we are living in right now is that we are really starting to see people interested in making use of all the great new capabilities that voice over IP will lend them on a consumer basis. We founded the company 10 years ago. At the time, consumers didn't really have direct Internet connections, so we predominantly sold to telecom businesses. As consumers have adopted technology, they have moved from not just dial-up Internet usage, but to actual broadband connections. We have led that change with interesting applications that they can use to capitalize on those connections. So we offer PC-to-phone, which is predominantly a narrowband or dial-up type solution, on a global basis. A large percentage of the world has only narrow-band or dial-up connections, so this solution set is appealing to that market and we sell these solutions to both consumers directly under our brand and to resellers and service providers as private label offerings for their own end users.. We have also led the industry in terms of broadband phone solutions. We were actually the first company to come up with a broadband phone type of solution several years ago. We have leveraged that experience to consumers directly, and increasingly to resellers and service providers. So at the top end, we have service providers like Verizon and SBC making use of our private label services. We also have hundreds of thousands of direct consumers through our iConnectHere brand.
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