Date published: 01.09.08 - not release date

Insight kicks-off PR campaign for Salford-based Voice4IP

Manchester, 26/05/2006: Insight Marketing and Communications - part of the Bell Pottinger group, the UK’s most successful public relations group - has been awarded the contract to promote Voice4IP, the new division of Salford-based Netservices Plc. Voice4IP provides customers with managed telephony services, allowing all sizes of company to embrace the benefits of new technologies and reducing companies telephone bills.

Insight will implement a regional and trade PR campaign centring on contract wins and industry points of view. The first £300,000 contract for Voice4IP with Yeomans outdoors was launched last month with the distribution of pairs of Wellingtons to key press contacts.

Maria Goggin, head of marketing, Voice4IP commented: “Since the launch of the company last autumn, we have been waiting for the right moment to kick-off our PR programme and Insight’s enthusiasm for the job convinced us that the time was right. The team at Insight really understands our market, they are technology specialists and have the relationships with the right media for us.”

Insight will be working alongside the company's city PR campaign and helping manage the positive news flow from Voice4IP as the company becomes more successful. As well as media facing activity, Insight will manage and write all customer success stories and support any trade show activity.

Insight’s MD, Chris Warham said: “The challenge of promoting new and emerging technology players inspires our team. We can really make a difference to the success of a client’s business through implementing creative PR campaigns. Voice4IP is driving up the industry standards and we look forward to promoting its offering across the UK.”

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Press Contact:

Rebecca Dean
Insight Marketing and Communications
+44 (0) 1625 506 416
rdean@insightmkt.com

NOTES TO EDITORS:

About Insight Marketing and Communications Ltd.

Specialising in the hi-tech and telecomms industries, Insight Marketing & Communications Limited was established in 1991 and has offices in Manchester, central London and Heathrow. Insight has grown to become a major force amongst marketing communications and public relations consultancies. It has a client list representing all sectors of the technology industry both in the UK and in Europe including Azzurri, Hewlett-Packard and Vistorm, as well as a range of other software companies, systems integrators and vertical market application providers.

Insight is part of the Bell Pottinger Group – the UK’s most successful PR group

For further info, please visit www.insightmkt.com

About Voice4IP

Just launched to the market Voice4IP is a subsidiary of leading network distributor and broadband wholesaler, NetServices Plc.

Voice4IP have developed a fully managed service to transmit voice traffic within and between organisations using VOIP. The service developed in-house incorporates the network, soft switch and a fully integrated portal front end as well as a real time billing system – taking the concept of fully managed VoIP to a new standard in the market. Once Voice4IP connects a company with multiple sites, all inter-site calls will be free of charge. VoIP is set to change existing business models in the industry and will give rise to significant savings for customers, Voice4IP are driving up the industry standards.

Formed in 1996, NetServices Plc is a leading network distributor and broadband wholesaler. Based in central Manchester they own, and manage over 20,000 sq. ft of data centre at their office locations and have points of presence in Manchester, London and Sacramento, USA.

Known as "The People behind the People" NetServices bring together technologies that provide both business and consumer connectivity to the Internet including WAN, Voice over IP, L2TP DSL aggregation, hosting and co-location, leased line access, VPN and Internet security over a MPLS network.

The NetServices Group currently employs 100 staff.

For further info visit www.voice4ip.com