History
Voxbone was founded in Brussels, Belgium, in 2005 by Rodrigue Ullens and Francois Struman as Voxbone SA/NV. [2] As a consultant for telecom operators, Ullens noticed the growing demand for phone numbers from other countries and decided to create the business. [3] The founders’ mission was to offer simplified access to telephony resources through the cloud. [4]
In 2011, the company launched a “global capacity-sharing model” to tackle the complex tasks and costs associated with planning and managing global voice traffic. Customers are charged according to their peak simultaneous sessions globally (vs. total minute usage per country, or geographical origin of calls, in traditional models). [5]
In August 2015 Vitruvian Partners LLP (“Vitruvian”) announced that it had acquired a majority stake in Voxbone SA. [6]
In March 2019 Voxbone announced the launch of its enterprise platform. [7]
On October 12, 2020 Voxbone announced its acquisition by Bandwidth for €446 million EUR. [8] On November 2, 2020, it was announced that the deal had been finalized. [9] [10]
The company operates offices in Brussels, London, San Francisco, Austin, Simi Valley, Dublin, Singapore and Iași.
Services
Voxbone provides two-way voice and messaging services from the cloud for businesses including local, national, mobile and toll-free phone numbers (commonly known as direct inward dialing numbers). Telecommunication providers and/or enterprises use these numbers to extend the reach of their voice networks to international locations, without requiring a local office, network or license for each country. [11] Voxbone also supports local number portability and offers the ability to port existing local telephone numbers from other local service providers to its network. [12] [13]
- Voxbone Voice - A single-source alternative to legacy carriers and SIP providers, providing 2-way voice including domestic dialing capabilities, local number portability and access to Emergency Services
- Voxbone Mobile - Two-way messaging and voice on SIM-free mobile numbers.
- Voxbone Connect - 500+ interconnection paths into the Voxbone global voice network spread around the world
- Voxbone Insights - Call quality performance metrics in real-time across the network and customer legs of the call journey for an end-to-end view on Mean Opinion Score, Jitter, Packet Loss, Round Trip Time and more.
Voxbone's services are delivered over a private IP network that interconnects with local phone networks in the countries where it operates. [14]
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