In 2003 Carl Churchill, the 25-year-old Director of Hants-based ISP murphx Innovative Solutions, was hotly tipped as a future business star, and true to form he has emerged as a leading light in the channel. Here's the story behind one of the industry's most progressive personalities and the company he steers.
3CX, the VoIP software vendor, is on a hunt to recruit 150 more resellers, and according to the man at the centre of the UK campaign, incoming Channel Manager Stephen Corrigan, his target does not fall on the optimistic end of projections.
In April Avaya appointed Lee Shorten as Managing Director, UK and Ireland. His mission is to ensure that Avaya becomes synonymous with Unified Communications.
Samsung Electronics UK has reaffirmed its channel commitment and assured resellers of a ‘business as usual' service following the departure of General Manager Julian Barnes from the Network Business Team.
The introduction of WLR3 by Openreach aims to level the playing field between comms providers (CPs) and BT Retail. According to Tony Cook, a Director at Union Street Technologies, CPs should waste no time in getting on board.
Resellers have a vital role to play in the anticipated mass adoption of Unified Communications (UC) across the business spectrum, according to Simon Welch, UK Channel Development Director at Avnet.
CTI Group has reaffirmed its commitment to the channel with a call to action, urging resellers to profit from the margin-making opportunities offered by dealer-friendly call logging and call recording products.
Hosted mobile data services will come into their own as the downturn grips the comms industry, according to Mark Seemann, Product Marketing Director of Genesis Communications.
Products are emerging that allow the easy and relatively low cost creation of a variety of SMB PBX and call centre applications based on Open Source (OS). One player in this space eyeing the UK market is Digium.
Minutes will survive as a bundled mainstream service but voice resellers will have to reinvent themselves as IP carriers if they want to survive in the long-term, says BNS Telecom Chief Executive Garry Moat.
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