Cbeyond Reports Strong Demand For Its BeyondVoice Wireless Service

May 25, 2006

A contact at Cbeyond tell me that the customer "attachment" rate of it's new BeyondVoice packages with mobile calling options is reaching 25%, which basically means that one-quarter of all its business customers are opting to sign up for a wireless add-on package that includes shared minutes among a company's landline phonesets and mobile phones that come with the packages.

As far as I know, Cbeyond is still the only managed VoIP service provider that has managed to find a way to create a shared pool of minutes.

Some of the innovative wireless features of the company's BeyondVoice packages include:

The ability to combine and share local, long distance and mobile minutes.
Additional mobile lines cost $40 each, and include 500 minutes of shared LD/Mobile minutes for each additional line.
Customers can add mobile lines as their business grows. There is no limit to the number of mobile lines that can be added to the BeyondVoice service packages.
Customers are able to maximize their long distance minutes, since unused landline minutes are applied to mobile for free.
Mobile minutes are shared across all employees at no additional charge. Other carriers charge for this capability.
Massive overages are basically eliminated! Customers pay a low flat rate for each additional minute (currently only 6 cents) used beyond the shared bucket of minutes included in their service packages.

Other notable news include a new integrated voice mail feature that provides a single voice mail box for both landline and wireless numbers -- no need to remember multiple codes to check two separate voice mail systems for messages. Also, message waiting indication appears on both the mobile and office phoneset at the same time.

Other news is a healthy, appreciating stock price, escalating growth in its most established markets (including Atlanta and Dallas), and good progress in the company's newest market, Los Angeles. Reports are the company plans on breaking into a seventh market before the end of the year -- no word yet on where that will be.

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