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Weekly Updates8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), Santa Clara, Calif., the broadband voice and video communications service provider, has added Packet8 voice and videophone numbers in New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Packet8 now offers more than 1,900 rate centers in the United States from which a Packet8 voice or videophone subscriber anywhere in the world can choose a telephone number. A Packet8 subscriber's telephone number is not related to the geographic location of a Packet8 subscriber, and like cell phones, Packet8 telephone numbers will follow the Packet8 subscriber wherever in the world the customer accesses the Internet.
"Although Packet8's most popular calling plans allow customers to make unlimited telephone calls to any number in the United States or Canada, it is essential for Packet8 to continue to offer subscribers as many telephone numbers as possible so the people who call them the most can also benefit from Packet8 services," said Barry Andrews, president of 8x8.
Phone numbers in the new rate centers are available now and a complete list of the Packet8 rate centers can be found at http://www.packet8.net/about/areacodes.asp. Existing subscribers will be allowed to change their existing Packet8 phone number to a more convenient rate center at no additional charge.
About Packet8
Launched in November 2002, Packet8 enables anyone with high-speed Internet access to sign up for internet protocol (IP) voice and video communications service at http://www.packet8.net. Customers can choose a direct-dial phone number from any of the rate centers offered by the service, and then use an 8x8-supplied terminal adapter to connect any telephone to a broadband internet connection and make or receive calls from a regular telephone number. All Packet8 telephone accounts come with voice mail, caller ID, call waiting, call waiting caller ID, call forwarding, hold, line-alternate, 3-way conferencing, web access to account controls, and real-time online billing. High speed, instant-on broadband videophone accounts, which use the 8x8 DV325 SIP videophone, are also available. The DV325 videophone functions as a Packet8 voice line when making or receiving voice telephone calls from regular telephone numbers.
About 8x8, Inc.
8x8, Inc. offers the Packet8 broadband voice and video communications service (http://www.packet8.net), consumer videophones, hosted iPBX solutions, and voice and video semiconductors and related software.
For more information, visit http://www.8x8.com or call 415/255-1554.
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