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Green Business VOIP Solutions

A first in the UK telecoms market, as from 1st January 2009 all minutes carried across the Communicate Better in association with Gamma Telecom network are Carbon Neutral, helping businesses, residential customers and public and voluntary sectors reduce their carbon footprint.

Each year, our carbon footprint is independently assessed looking at electricity bills and volumes for the amount of energy used in transporting minutes across the network. Working to offset this carbon footprint, we purchase carbon credits - every 1 tonne of CO2 is ‘neutralised’ by 1 tonne which is saved somewhere else in the world by a climate friendly project that would not have happened without carbon credit investment.

Projects that our carbon credits are being used on include a large Wind Power Project in India. Our commitment to reducing carbon emissions began in 2006 with the early adoption of IP based soft-switching in the core network, marking the first major initiative of its kind in the UK and reducing energy consumption per minute by 30% within the first year. Soft-switching has allowed us to move from a power-hungry hardware infrastructure to a more software driven environment which uses far less power. Continued investment in this technology has enabled us to reduce the mean power consumption per minute carried each year, even as call traffic has increased over the same time.

Benefits to the customer

• Buy into an environmentally friendly VoIP solution
• Ideal solution for organisations who are required to meet key green objectives
• No greener way of making calls in the UK