Mexico Gets New VoIP Provider
Written by Marin Perez
Friday, 13 January 2006

The Mexican telecommunication carrier IUSACom Networks Inc. will offer VoIP services for business and residential customers in Latin America and the United States.

The new VoIP service will be marketed to customers in Mexico as well as the rapidly growing Hispanic market in the United States, which HispanTelligence expects to reach $1 trillion within the next four years.

IUSACom’s decision to offer VoIP to Mexican customers gives major credence to Telegraphy’s recent prediction of a 46 percent jump in international VoIP traffic from Latin America. (See Telegeography Projects 38 Percent Jump in International VoIP Traffic.)

Additionally, reaching beyond its boarders will allow the telecom provider to gain a share of the international voice over IP calls that are placed from the U.S. to Mexico. According to TeleGeography Research Group, 61 percent of international VoIP traffic terminates in Latin America or Asia. (See VoIP Focus Shifts From Price to Features.)

IUSACom is utilizing Vistula’s V-Cube VoIP platform, which the telecommunications provider claims is "making it possible for us to become the leading VoIP service provider in Mexico and the U.S. Hispanic community within weeks, providing the VoIP services that specifically meet the communications needs of consumers, businesses, and retail customers. We anticipate demand for our consumer VoIP services that will result in a significant customer base by the end of the first year of offering the service," said Lopez-Negrete of IUSACom.

This spring IUSACom will roll out its residential VoIP offering and follow it with an IP-PBX suite of products designed for business customers.

Read the full release at Vistula Communications Services, Inc.