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    Coms Inclusive: The Hosted VoIP Service that includes a choice of Polycom IP Handsets

    London, UK, 10th March 2010 Coms Plc (AIM: COMS.L), Coms, A leading UK provider of VoIP Business Telephone Systems, today announced the launch ofComs Inclusive, the Hosted VoIP Service that includes a choice of Polycom IP Handsets.

    Typically Hosted VoIP service providers charge customers a monthly subscription for the service and require customers to purchase expensiveVoIP handsets, which does not sit well with the low CAPEX model of Hosted VoIP, one of its key features.

    Coms Inclusive bundles the service and a choice of handsets into the monthly subscription, significantly lowering the barrier to entry to Hosted VoIP, and moving the service to a utility model, whereby customers, pay for the service, which includes the handset.

    Coms Inclusive: Combined Coms Service&Polycom IP-Handset
    2010-03-13T10:22:00.012Z


Coms Plc Supplies HelpAge International with Cost-Saving Telecoms System

Coms Plchas been selected to supply HelpAge International with aHosted VoIPtelephone system that is saving this leading charity in excess of 25% of its monthly telecommunications budget. HelpAge International, which operates through partners in over 75 countries, sought proposals from traditional and Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone system providers, to ensure that the system it purchased would deliver both short term and long term benefits.

2009-10-13T07:24:00.006+01:00


Coms Launches Video Conferencing Service and Extends Relationship With Polycom

1st OCT 2009: Coms plc, a provider of internet telephony services to business customers, today launches an innovative video conferencing service based upon the Polycom CX5000 video conferencing phone that was developed in partnership between Polycom and Microsoft.


The Coms HostedVideo Conferencingservice combines the Polycom CX5000 Conference Station and Microsoft Live Meeting to provide a unique
2009-09-27T08:43:00.009+01:00


Coms Xstream Enables More Calls Over ADSL

20 February 2009: Coms launchesComs Xstream, a VoIP compression technology that dramatically improves the number of calls over a DSL connection, but crucially maintains call quality.

Terry Martin, CEO of Coms, commented,“VoIP technology has so far had an unsteady reputation and it’s usually down to the quality of calls. This is mainly due to the fact that regular SME ADSL lines are up and down in terms of quality. We are extremely excited by Xstream as it dramatically improves the quality of VoIP calls over a regular line by utilising compression and prioritisation technology, that has a side effect of being able to let you make more calls over a regular DSL Broadband line.”

Coms Xstream overview
Coms Xstream reduces the bandwidth overhead so that more calls can be made on an ADSL line. In doing so Xstream also improves Quality of Service (QoS) as voice packets are treated as priority
2009-02-15T12:01:00.008Z


Coms launches Bundled VoIP and Broadband Package for Business

London, UK, 1st Febuary 2009 Coms Plc (AIM: COMS.L), a leading provider of VoIP Telephone Systems for Business, is launching a combined VoIP and Broadband service, which provides substantial cost savings and guaranteed consistent high quality whilst eliminating the need for a BT landline.

In conjunction with Tiscali broadband, customers receive the‘Coms Office 10’ package, comprising 2mB SDSL-M Broadband plus the company’s fully featured VoIP service for ten users, which can be extended as required. The package, which can be installed within hours, includes UK DDIs, an Auto Attendant, plus leading edge call handling features such as call hold, transfer, forwarding, follow-me, voice mail, conference service and voice mail to email.

Terry Martin, Coms CEO, commented:‘We chose SDSL-M because it is available to over 80% of UK businesses. By installing the Broadband element ourselves, we now have total control over the quality of calls, emails and
2009-02-14T17:18:00.000Z


Glastonbury Festivals use the Coms On-Demand Business Telephone System


LONDON, UK - 1 FEB 2009: Glastonbury Festivals use the Coms On-Demand Business Telephone System at their office in Northload Street Glastonbury, which deals with many commercial aspects of the main festival such as press contact and trader enquiries as well as the organisation of events such as the Glastonbury Extravaganza and Equinox Party.

In the past communications was provided by means of an onsite PBX with 4 lines plus 3 direct lines for the press office. While this worked well the PBX was coming to the end of its life and a decision was made to move into the 21st century.

2009-02-14T07:29:00.001Z


Coms Integrates Outlook with Polycom IP Phones

LONDON, UK - 13 FEB 2009 : Coms PolyPop integrates Outlook with Polycom IP Phones so that Outlook users can Click to Call from their Outlook Contacts and also have Contact details pop up to match inbound calls.

The development brings CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) in reach of many SMB customers, whereas previously CTI was for Enterprise or Power users.

Coms PolyPop CTI is a not only a time saving tool, it's also an efficiency tool as caller details are seamlessly available to called parties, enabling simpler use of contact details to improve relationships and leverage exsisting contact data.

Coms PolyPop has options as to which data fields are used to math inbound call with and also how contact data is screen popped as well as how it's displayed.

Available to download for a free 30 day trial and then it's just£10 for a single user per year.

Full details fromhttp://www.com



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