InfoHighway's Hosted PBX solution offers business customers a singled sourced solution for all of their voice and Internet connectivity needs. It delivers all the features and functionality of traditional PBX and key systems, while adding a wealth of new IP-based services, enhanced flexibility and expanded user control. The platform delivers redundancy and scalability that is difficult to achieve with traditional premise based PBX systems. Combined with IP phones, this all-inclusive service replaces both traditional phone systems and telephone company services with one unified solution

"InfoHighway has been providing converged solutions to customers in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area for the past three years, and to date we have successfully deployed over 10,000 VoIP subscriber lines," said Raul K. Martynek, InfoHighway's President and CEO. "The expansion into Massachusetts is consistent with our goal of continuing to grow our product portfolio and offer leading-edge products and services to both our customers and Agent partners."

"Hosted PBX is the ideal choice for customers looking to take advantage of IP telephony without the costs associated with purchasing and maintaining a premise based system," commented Linda O'Neill, InfoHighway's General Manager for the New England Region. "They get all their services - local, long distance, high-speed Internet - from one company, and with our flat rate calling packages their monthly bill can be the same month after month. Hosted PBX can tie all the customer's locations, even remote work-at-home offices, together seamlessly via 4-digit dialing, and all calls between offices are always free."

Hosted PBX is provisioned over InfoHighway's private, business class voice and data network, allowing the Company to guarantee both service reliability and voice quality. The service is completely scalable so customers do not have to be concerned with capacity issues or costly hardware and software upgrades. Since the service is hosted and backed up at InfoHighway's datacenter, the service is always available. In the event of a power failure or other service outage at the customer location all incoming calls are automatically forwarded to voicemail or to another phone number. All users receive direct inward dial numbers and a variety of advanced calling features that they can manage either through their phone, via a web portal or through their Outlook e-mail client.

InfoHighway anticipates introducing Hosted PBX service in other markets in the Northeastern and Mid Atlantic United States later this year.