BellSouth has added three new long distance business offerings to its portfolio -- BellSouth Long Distance Voice Virtual Private Network, BellSouth Long Distance Calling Card for businesses, and BellSouth Conferencing Services.
BellSouth Long Distance Voice VPN is a virtual private network application that provides businesses with reduced costs, call control and abbreviated dialing between disparate offices. The VPN architecture allows long distance calls to be carried solely by the IXC, eliminating additional access charges and reducing per minute costs, according to BellSouth. The VPN platform also provides businesses with a series of call accounting features to control usage and reduce fraud across all customer locations as well as abbreviated long distance dialing between interoffice customer locations.
BellSouth Conferencing Services integrates audio and Web conferencing tools and offers on-demand functionality.
BellSouth Long Distance Calling Card for businesses, meanwhile, is a long distance travel service that allows users to place calls from virtually any phone in the U.S. and any country providing international direct distance dialing. The BellSouth Long Distance Calling Card offers customers the ability to manage long distance calling fees through a single-vendor. The service includes operator assistance, speed dialing, call reorigination and private labeled calling cards with corporate logos.
In 2002, BellSouth became the first regional Bell operating company to offer long distance in its entire territory.
