August 29, 2007 – Greenfield Communications, one of the largest privately held Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) communications providers in the United States, has reportedly selected GlobalTouch Telecom’s (News - Alert) integrated VoIP and video services for delivery to its master planned residential communities.

Dana Point, Calif.-based Greenfield Communications designs and installs advanced FTTH networks in master planned residential communities in the Western United States. The company has so far managed ten FTTH projects with more than 5,000 customers and is actively designing and constructing eleven additional projects (representing over 75,000 homes). In addition the company claims it has secured 22 more FTTH projects representing over 200,000 homes.

As per the deal, GlobalTouch will act as the selected as underlying digital voice provider for these residential networks. Scalable from a few thousand residential or enterprise seats to millions of customers around the world, GlobalTouch’s globally-recognized, award-winning hosted VoIP platform lets organizations enter and operate in any size market. Available on a white label basis, GlobalTouch’s platform lets carriers, cable telephony providers (MSOs), resellers, PTTs, ISPs and marketing companies to launch a private-labeled VoIP business in 60 days or less.

In a press release, Gregory O. Welch, CEO of GlobalTouch Telecom pointed out that, the worldwide VoIP market swelled by 34 million new subscriptions in 2006, according to market research firm In-Stat (News - Alert).

“As ‘wired’ communities continue to sprout across the country, such as those developed by Greenfield, it’s no surprise that domestic consumers continue to embrace VoIP and its many benefits,” Welch said in the release. “What is truly important to note, is that as an industry, we are barely scratching the surface in regard to consumer market penetration. By 2011, In-Stat predicts the consumer VoIP market will total nearly $44 billion worldwide. Recognized as the ‘Gold Standard’ in VoIP service, we look forward to working with innovators such as Greenfield, and to achieving our shared goal of spreading quality digital voice and video to individuals worldwide.”

Mike Powers, CEO, Greenfield Communications, said GlobalTouch’s VoIP platform “gives providers the ideal combination of rich features and the low CAPEX/OPEX (News - Alert) of a hosted ASP approach.”

“Providers in the VoIP space are looking to minimize costs while still delivering a top notch service and growing market share,” he said. “The combination of GlobalTouch’s core technology and the Greenfield Communications market approach is a perfect way to accomplish these goals.”

GlobalTouch made news on TMCnet last week when it announced that it had selected Endeavor to provide installation of VoIP services as a part of the company's end-to-end packaged service offering. The alliance will enable GlobalTouch carrier, service provider and MSO customers to purchase turnkey hosted VoIP PBX solutions, which include private label field installation services delivered by Endeavor.

For more information visit www.gttvoip.com and www.egreenfield.com.

Patrick Barnard is Associate Editor for Customer Interaction Solutions magazine and Assignment Editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.