SIPISIT
(303CONFERENCING) AND CAERUS MERGE TO CREATE
NEWLY FORMED SUBSIDIARY, VOLO COMMUNICATIONS,
TO DELIVER ADVANCED SERVICES
Solution to accelerate
service offering and deployment of conferencing
services.
Longmont, CO and Boston,
MA May 23, 2002 Volo Communications
today announced it has merged 303Conferencing
into Caerus, Inc, creating a newly formed
subsidiary called Volo Communications, Inc.
303Conferencing has been able to move
quickly to begin offering carrier-class voice
conferencing services in the market,
said Shawn Lewis, CEO and president of Caerus,
Inc. Their conferencing technology and
network architecture combined with our technology
will allow us to quickly start offering conferencing
services while at the same time enabling our
suite of advanced services to customers.
The solution will help Volo
Communications to increase average revenue
per user (ARPU) by driving additional subscriber
minutes, and reduce subscriber churn by offering
a new suite of services that improves the
efficiency and effectiveness of group communications.
Additionally, it will empower the capability
to provide customers with various ways to
conveniently initiate and access multi-party
conference calls on the fly using a variety
of end points on the wireline, wireless and
IP networks.
Volo Communications
brings the true vision of the nextgen network
architecture that will simplify the provisioning
and scaling of voice services, said
Robert Hernandez, president of 303Conferencing,
Volos technology will help us
penetrate the market and quickly capture market
share.
Both Shawn Lewis and Robert
Hernandez, are veterans at changing the way
telecommunications work. Three years
ago, we changed the way people look at and
use the telephone network today. By creating,
certifying the worlds first softswitch
and by selling XCOM Technologies, Inc by merger
to Level (3) Communications, Inc, a whole
new era of convergence began, said Shawn
Lewis.
Working together again,
we now have the opportunity to expand our
original vision of converging the Internet
and telephony infrastructures with an open
architecture framework to easily provision
and deliver a suite of advanced services,
added Robert Hernandez.
About Volo Communications, Inc.
Volo Communications (http://www.volocommunications.com)
is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Caerus, Inc.
dedicated to the proliferation of advanced
services including conferencing, presence,
web-colloraboration, voice-activated and long-distance
services. The company brings together a suite
of services to make them simple, convenient,
and more cost effective to use. The company
works with domestic, international, and next-generation
carriers to integrate high-quality voice,
video, and data into real-time communications
and applications, such as web conferencing
and other mission-critical business and wireless
applications. In addition, Volos services
are engineered for performance and flexibility,
enabling customers to maintain a competitive
edge with differentiating features and functionality.
Volo makes it easier for
customers to enjoy the benefits of multiple
services by creating a single point to operate
and expand voice collaboration solutions to
multiple endpoint devices. For more information
about Volo Communications, Inc, visit www.volocommunications.com
or call 866-711-2663.
303Conferencing, Inc.
303Conferencing, Inc. is
a conferencing services provider dedicated
to the proliferation of conferencing by delivering
a suite of premium, value-add automated services
that make rich media conferencing spontaneous
and as low cost to use as today's telephone
calls. 303Conferencing was able to quickly
build the required network and customer support
infrastructure required to deliver the next-generation
of conferencing services.
Forward Looking
Statement
Some of the statements made by Caerus in this
press release are forward-looking in nature.
Actual results may differ materially from
those projected in forward-looking statements.
Caerus believes that its primary risk factors
include, but are not limited to: changes in
the overall economy relating to, among other
things, development of effective internal
processes and systems; the ability to attract
and retain high quality employees; technology;
the number and size of competitors in its
markets; law and regulatory policy; and the
mix of products and services offered in the
company's target markets