Developers & Entrepreneurs Can Launch Elastic, Global, Asterisk-Compatible Phone Services For Three Cents Per Minute

SKOKIE, Ill., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloudvox, which was recently acquired by Ifbyphone, today announced the first fruits of their combined platform: a flat pay-as-you-go rate of $0.03 per minute, phone numbers from around the world, and a comprehensive conference call API for all Cloudvox users.

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"We're all about eliminating barriers to creating new phone applications. Now every user can access all Cloudvox capabilities, whether it's for a simple 2-line script or a sophisticated portable application," said Cloudvox co-founder Troy Davis. "Cloudvox uniquely supports standard Asterisk-compliant apps, allowing customers to change service providers or use their own infrastructure without getting locked in."

Building on the resources of Ifbyphone, developers can now write a single app that can be called by a majority of the world's industrialized population. Cloudvox customers can purchase local phone numbers around the world, dramatically increasing both the number of people who can call and the market for their apps.

Cloudvox is reaching out to entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Brazil, Australia, and more than 25 other countries in Europe, Asia, and South America. Using HTTP and JSON, PHP, Ruby (Adhearsion), Perl, Java (Asterisk-Java), and other open-source languages and frameworks, developers can write and operate open phone services for their local markets and the world.

"Worldwide access is a horizontal feature that overlays on existing apps," said Irv Shapiro, Ifbyphone CEO. "It provides service expansion and geographic benefits to key Cloudvox customers, including European entrepreneurs and US tech companies selling to their European customers."

Regardless of location, phone calls demand interactivity, and now all apps on Cloudvox can initiate and control multi-party conference calls. Developers can use conferences as a building block to create more compelling services. Via an API, apps can route callers into conferences, remove specific participants, and perform sophisticated actions like playing MP3 audio files into conferences and recording the conversations.

"We've seen strong interest from companies in social networking, business process automation, and fleet tracking. When added to Cloudvox's open standard phone call API, this simple pricing, global footprint, and API-based conferencing calling remove major obstacles to building sustainable services," Davis added.

Developers can sign up for a Cloudvox account at www.cloudvox.com. Businesses interested in pre-built phone applications, including IVR, Voice Broadcast, Virtual Call Center and Call Tracking Numbers, can learn more at www.ifbyphone.com.

About Ifbyphone

Ifbyphone is a leading Cloud Telephony company providing businesses a suite of phone automation services to enhance customer communications, increase sales, and lower costs. With Ifbyphone's easy-to-use hosted services and tools, marketers, developers and business users can quickly create telephony systems to drive customer retention and acquisition. Through its Cloudvox service, developers and entrepreneurs can create their own apps in any programming language or simple HTTP. For more information, visit www.ifbyphone.com.

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