With such license in place, iUOL is in the position to offer various value-added VoIP products and services to millions of subscribers in China. This would propel the company into a household name in VoIP market. Guided Web Browsing C- a call center agent can guide a customer to a web page. With the number of wireline phone subscribers leaping from 10 million in 1992 to 50 million in 1996, to over 100 million by July 1999, the number of wireline phone subscribers in China is expected to reach 240 million in 2005. The figure may surpass 360 million in 2010 when the wireline phone business is expected to enter maturity.
Points of presence receive calls through a switched network.
Gateways in each POP digitize, compress and packetize voice and fax calls and then transmit them over the Internet. At the destination, another point of presence reverses the process and the call is switched back from the Internet to a local carrier's circuit-switched network in the destination location. The iUOL Network architecture was designed from the beginning to handle high volumes of reliable, commercial toll-quality voice and fax traffic over multiple and various IP backbones. The network backbone includes both public Internet and private lines as part of the China backbone infrastructure. The Internet iUOL uses the Internet to transmit the substantial majority of voice and fax traffic and deliver other value-added services, because of its global coverage, rapid growth and flexible connectivity.