Vancouver, BC, -- July 20, 2004 -- IP Applications (Canada) Corp., a leader in outsourced solutions for Internet service providers (ISPs), today announced the signing of a one year services contract with Navigata Communications.
The contract signifies the expansion of IP Application’s existing business relationship with Navigata to include the management of Internet services delivered to end users acquired through Navigata’s acquisition of Victoria-based ISP (Internet Service Provider) Entirety Communications and end users currently registered with Navigata.net.
In addition, IP Applications will enhance Navigata’s Internet offering by incorporating dial acceleration, anti-virus scanning and North America-wide roaming access service options.
“IP Applications has been extremely responsive to our needs. Their ability to efficiently integrate, service and manage our newly acquired subscribers serves a critical role by relieving the pressure on our internal IT resources, while at the same time enabling us to deliver a significantly enhanced services offering to our users," Rick Daw, Navigata’s Marketing Director.
“Our Internet outsourcing solutions are built to adapt to the full range of ISP needs, including the effective migration of newly acquired subscriber bases, “ said Darren Dumba, IP Applications’ Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing. “The flexibility and robustness of our account management and services provisioning platform enables us to quickly activate both new end user accounts as well as deliver new value-added service offerings. We are committed to constantly evolving our capabilities and services in order to continue to meet the needs of valued customers like Navigata and their end users.”
About IP Applications
IP Applications provides comprehensive managed software and solutions that enable companies to deliver quality Internet services. A leading provider in the industry, IP Applications has an enviable customer list, providing secure Internet business solutions to Sprint, Broadwing, Telus, Excel Telecom, Skycable, AOL and Navigata. IP Applications meets Internet service provider needs by combining its web-based provisioning, management, billing and support services platform with a full range of customer-branded end user services including: authentication, email, personal web hosting, spam blocking, content filtering, email virus scanning, acceleration, portal and North American network coverage. Committed to optimizing its customers’ Internet operations, IP Applications backs its technology and solutions with an industry leading Service Level Agreement guaranteeing consistent services availability.
About Navigata
Navigata Communications, formerly known as WesTel, is a BC based telecommunications company that provides long distance, local access, data, Internet hosting, web development and phone card services (pre and post-paid) to business and residential customers in Canada as well as wholesale voice, data, and prepaid card services to wholesale customers across Canada and around the world. Navigata is a wholly owned subsidiary of SaskTel.
