Coms.Com gives you a real personal telephone number that is connected to the Internet, so that you can make and receive low-cost calls and manage your messages where ever you have an IP connection.
Ubiquitous broadband internet access in homes, offices and WiFi hotspots is rapidly changing the telecommunications industry, and millions of businesses and individuals are now making calls across the Internet with a broadband phone service to save money and utilise new features such as advances messaging and location independence that quite literally lets you take your landline with you wherever you go.
Unlike Skype, which uses a proprietary protocol, Coms.Com uses the industry SIP(1) standard to transmit telephone calls across the internet, also called VoIP or Voice over IP. This means our broadband phone service is compatible with 1000s of devices from leading manufactures such as Cisco, Linksys, Nokia, Motorola, Siemens and Sony. You can use the Coms.Com service to make and receive voip phone calls with any SIP(1) enabled device be it a program on your computer, a WiFi mobile or a dual mode GSM/3G phone. (see our section voice over ip phone for more details)
Once you consider VoIP subscribers currently represent less than 1% of the global mobile phone market, you can begin to comprehend the scale of the market opportunity. However, VoIP is not just a phone replacement, it is evolving communications and adding voice to a wide range of new services such as instant messaging (IM) and pay-per-call advertising (PPC).
Coms.Com, the broadband phone service, was founded in 2000 by Jason Drummond to offer these exciting converged telecommunications services to global customers. Coms.Com owns its own VoIP network and sells its services, voip plans, directly to individuals and businesses and through retailers and other distributors. Coms plc is an independent company and its shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM:COMS).
Company milestones:
- 2000 founded by Jason Drummond
- 2001 launched voice and fax unified messaging service
- 2005 recruited Terry Martin as CEO
- 2005 recruited Richard Bennett as Corporate Development Officer
- 2006 IPO(2) on London Stock Exchange
- 2006 OFCOM(3) allocation of 2M+ numbers
- 2006 Launch of VoIP Service
- 2006 Launch of Coms Express Online Store
- 2006 Acquisition of ExchangeXT and Superline Telecommunications
- 2007 Retail launch in John Lewis Stores
- 2007 Acquisition of VCOMM
- 2007 Launch of Coms for Business
Notes:
Coms.Com is a member of the Internet Telephony Service Providers Association (ITSPA) and adheres to their code of practice.
(1) SIP (session initiation protocol) is the IETFF standard for establishing calls across the Internet and is compatible with the widest range of devices from manufactures including Nokia, Sony, Siemens and Motorola. For a full range of devices, see www.comsexpress.com
(2) IPO (Initial Public Offering): Coms plc listed on the London Stock Exchange on the 6th of September 2006, via a reverse takeover of Azman plc and an additional placing of shares (LSE:COMS).
(3) PECN (authorised Public Electronic Communications Network): Coms.Com is authorised as an
Ofcom PECN and has an allocation in excess of 2M+ telephone numbers in 168 UK mobile and geographic area codes.
