RTX Telecom A/S - The anchored DUALphone 3088 for Skype becomes a PBX-like arrangement with assorted handsets

Now the DUALphone 3088, a standalone cordless Internet buzz with Skypeä, will become a PBX-like arrangement for the SoHo and home markets with four-handset adequacy and simple PBX functionsStore this angel in big sizeRTX is now abacus three added handsets to the DUALphone 3088, authoritative it a PBX-like arrangement with two lines, appointment calls, intercom, and abounding alarm alteration amid handsets.

Hannover, Germany (CeBIT) – March 15, 2007 – RTX, a apple baton in wireless artefact development, today appear that its DUALphone 3088, a standalone cordless Internet buzz with Skype, will become a PBX-like arrangement for the SoHo and home markets with four-handset adequacy and simple PBX functions. The added DUALphone 3088 handsets will be awash separately.

Now you can accept the appearance and achievement of a simple PBX arrangement that you would commonly alone apprehend in big-ticket equipment. With two curve and four handsets, this is a simple PBX arrangement for Skype and PSTN. Our DUALphone 3088 comes with a abject station, which will be able to handle up to four wireless DUALphone 3088 handsets.

The DUALphone 3088 appearance anchored Skype software, acceptance users to accomplish chargeless Skype-to-Skype calls or bargain SkypeOut calls to landlines and mobiles anywhere in the apple after the charge for a PC. Skype users can aswell acquirement an alternative SkypeIn number, which allows them to accept calls from approved telephones via Skype. The DUALphone 3088 needs a broadband Internet connection.

The DUALphone 3088 takes its name from the actuality that it serves as a acceptable buzz as able-bodied as an beat Internet phone. When agreement a call, users can use either Skype or the acceptable buzz band by artlessly selecting the adapted adjustment via the phone’s automatic menu.

The new PBX-like functionality will accomplish it accessible for the four handsets to accept two approachable or admission calls simultaneously, one via Skype over the broadband affiliation and one via the aboriginal blast band operator. It will be accessible to accept a three-way appointment amid Skype and landline calls, intercom amid all handsets, and it will aswell be accessible to alteration a alarm to addition handset by abounding alarm transfer.

“With the DUALphone 3088, RTX has pioneered the world’s aboriginal cordless DUALphone with complete Skype that does not crave a computer,” says Tage Rasmussen, CEO of RTX. “The new PBX-like functionality and the added handsets accomplish DUALphone 3088 even added ambrosial for the SoHo and home markets.”

“Skype is all about ambience conversations free, and the new bearing of dual-mode Internet phones fits this eyes well,” says Manrique Brenes, administrator of Hardware Business Development at Skype. “The new DUALphone 3088 is an adorable advantage for assorted users who don’t charge added than one Skype username and one approved blast amount and ambition to allotment these, be it in a baby appointment or the ancestors home. For these users, the PBX-like functionality and the adeptness to use up to four handsets is a abundant best indeed.”

Additional DUALphone 3088 handset and PBX-like features:
•PC-free cordless Skype/landline amalgam buzz
•Multiple handset accommodation (up to four)
•Two curve adequacy (Skype via broadband and accustomed telephony via PSTN)
•Intercom amid handsets
•Attended alarm transfer
•Three-way appointment amid Skype and landline calls
•Support for Skype alarm waiting
•Software upgradeable
•Distinctive campanology accent advertence landline or Skype calls

Availability
The added handsets for the DUALphone 3088 will be accessible from www.skype.com/shop and via our distributors. Recommended resellers amount per handset: EUR 79. For added advice amuse appointment www.dualphone.net or www.rtx.dk.
Existing DUALphone 3088 barter will access the PBX-like functionality admitting a firmware amend at the end of April.

DUALphone 3088 supports both the acceptable blast account and Skype Internet communications. Please agenda that Skype itself is not a backup account for your accustomed blast and it does not abutment emergency calling.

About RTX
RTX Telecom A/S is an internationally aggressive accumulation that aims to be the adopted accomplice for the development and assembly of beat wireless advice IP and solutions. RTX is disconnected into four business units, anniversary with its own across of wireless expertise: RTX Technology, RTX Consumer Products, RTX Network Systems and RTX Healthcare. The aggregation is domiciled in Denmark with offices in California, Romania and Hong Kong. RTX Telecom A/S is listed on the Nordic Stock Exchange (OMX). Please appointment www.rtx.dk for added information.

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Jens Kofoed
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RTX

Phone: +45 9632 2300 / +45 2240 7277
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