Just a few weeks ago Arbinet announced that it had signed MegaFon a Russian Mobile Telecom.   This was a significant milestone for the company as it was only in March 2010 that they announced its new premium Mobile Routing Table, with CLI guarantees were available.   To date, the industry interest has been terrific.  So much so that Roshan, the leading GSM cellular service provider in Afghanistan, has contracted to utilize Arbinet’s thexchange™ marketplace to buy and sell international voice communications and PrivateExchange^sm to facilitate direct interconnects between it and correspondent carriers and bi-lateral partners. 

 To read more about how Roshan is leveraging the strength and intelligence of the Arbinet platform – please continue reading here: 

Roshan Selects Arbinet International Voice Services

 Partnership with Arbinet enables Roshan to extend its reach and directly interconnect with leading international voice carriers.

Washington DC, USA – May 24, 2010– Arbinet Corporation [NASDAQ:  ARBX], a leading wholesale voice and data telecommunications service provider, announces today at International Telecoms Week (ITW) that Roshan, the leading GSM cellular service provider in Afghanistan, has contracted to utilize Arbinet’s thexchange™ marketplace to buy and sell international voice communications and PrivateExchange^sm to facilitate direct interconnects between it and correspondent carriers and bi-lateral partners. 

By utilizing Arbinet’s thexchange, Roshan gains access to a platform where more than 1,100 carriers and service providers trade, route, manage and settle voice traffic.  Roshan can source high quality routes that allow it to provide its retail customers with cost-effective international voice services.  It can offer its own routes to the marketplace in an easy and cost-effective manner.  Arbinet’s CreditWatch^sm credit management and settlement technology, which is backed by third-party underwriting, guarantees fast, reliable payments for traffic received. 

With PrivateExchange, Roshan can interconnect directly with corresponding bi-lateral partners over Arbinet’s network.  Arbinet will manage routing, billing and settlements, and provide any necessary TDM or VoIP protocol conversions.  Roshan and its corresponding service provider partners will negotiate pricing and volume commitments directly between themselves.

“Arbinet’s thexchange and PrivateExchange services are a key part of Roshan’s strategy to provide high-quality and reliable telecommunications service to the people of Afghanistan,” states Karim Khoja, chief executive officer, Roshan. “Using Arbinet’s thexchange marketplace to trade traffic gives Roshan access to a majority of global service providers and carriers to buy and sell voice traffic.  By using PrivateExchange, we will be able to easily develop bi-lateral routes and send and receive traffic with designated telecommunications providers.  Both these services enable Roshan to easily and efficiently work with the international marketplace to provide customers with unmatched quality, reliability and value.”

“We are very pleased with Roshan’s selection and utilization of our voice services” states Dan Powdermaker, Arbinet’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.  “With one interconnect, Roshan gains access to two unique International Voice Services.  In an industry where most operators are looking for new efficiencies when delivering international voice services to their end-users, Arbinet’s PrivateExchange and thexchange services give Roshan high-quality voice access to carriers and service providers across the world with unmatched flexibility.”

Arbinet offers three ways for carriers and service providers to originate and terminate international voice traffic.  PrivateExchange is an easy to use, low-risk outsourcing approach that enables service providers to create virtual direct routes and aggregate existing interconnects.  thexchange is the industry’s leading marketplace for buying and selling voice communications.  Arbinet Carrier Services is a standard wholesale service with no fees, a single invoice and rate lock.  It uses supplier codes in its wholesale routing plans.

For more information about Arbinet’s Carrier Services, thexchange™, or PrivateExchange^sm, please visit www.arbinet.com or e-mail sales@arbinet.com. 

About Arbinet

Arbinet is a leading provider of international voice and IP solutions to carriers and service providers globally.  With more than 1,100 carriers across the world connected to Arbinet’s network, Arbinet combines global scale with sophisticated platform intelligence, call routing and industry leading credit management and settlement capabilities.  Customers and suppliers include many leading fixed line, mobile, wholesale and VoIP carriers as well as calling card, ISPs and content providers around the world who buy and sell voice and IP telecommunications capacity and content.  For more information, please visit www.arbinet.com or call +1.917.320.2000 or email sales@arbinet.com.

About Roshan

Roshan (Telecom Development Company Afghanistan Ltd) is Afghanistan’s leading telecommunications provider, with coverage in over 230 cities and towns and approximately 3.6 million active subscribers. Roshan directly employs more than 1,100 people and provides indirect employment to more than 30,000 people. Since its inception seven years ago, Roshan has invested over $450 million in Afghanistan and is the country’s single largest investor and tax payer. Roshan is deeply committed to Afghanistan’s reconstruction and socio-economic development. The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), is a major shareholder of Roshan and promotes private initiatives in building economically sound enterprises in the developing world.  Also owned in part by Monaco Telecom International (MTI) and TeliaSonera, Roshan brings international expertise to Afghanistan and is committed to the highest standards of network quality and coverage for the people of Afghanistan.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements regarding anticipated future revenues, growth, capital expenditures, management’s future expansion plans, expected product and service developments or enhancements, discussions of strategy, and future operating results.  Such forward-looking statements may be identified by, among other things, the use of forward-looking terminology such as: “believes,” expects,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “confident,” “work to,” “seeks,” or “anticipates,” or the negative thereof or other variations thereon or comparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy.  Various risks and uncertainties may cause Arbinet’s actual results to differ materially from those express or implied in such forward-looking statements.  Please refer to Arbinet’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K  and other periodic and current filings that have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a description of the risks and uncertainties that Arbinet faces.  Arbinet assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, and such statements are current only as of the date they are made.

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Arbinet Global Sales Headquarters

75 Broad Street, 20^th Floor, New York, NY 10004

phone: +1 917.320.2000, fax: +1 917.320.1880, website: www.arbinet.com.

email: sales@arbinet.com or datasales@arbinet.com

Allied Fiber is Constructing a Nationwide, Network-Neutral, Dark Fiber Cable System Linking U.S. Subsea Landing Points, Major Data Centers, Colocation Interconnection Facilities, Rural Networks and Wireless Towers to Meet Increasing Market Demand

Construction Underway to Complete the 1300 Route-Mile Phase 1 Component of the 11,548 Route-Mile, Six-Phase Plan Ringing the United States

NEW YORK, New York (May 24th, 2010) – Allied Fiber announces today that the Company has executed definitive agreements with financial partners and several major railroads and right-of-way owners, including Norfolk Southern Railway, to build a new, network-neutral, high-count dark fiber, colocation and wireless tower integrated system. Construction of the first phase linking New York, NY, Chicago, IL and Ashburn, VA is already underway and will cost approximately US$140 million.

Allied Fiber is addressing the need for increasing national broadband demand by providing much needed access to new dark fiber, colocation facilities and fiber-fed wireless towers on a network-neutral, open-access basis throughout the United States. The user community for these physical-layer services ranges from and includes submarine cable systems, large international and domestic wireline and wireless carriers and network operators to small rural carriers, cooperatives and cable television companies.

According to TeleGeography, trans-Atlantic bandwidth demand has grown at a compounded annual growth rate of 47 percent between 2004 and 2009.  It is expected to continue growing strongly from 2010 to 2015, with total demand for capacity nearly doubling every two years.  Furthermore, In-Stat research indicates that 90,000 Gbps of capacity in the last mile of the backhaul network will be needed by the end of 2013 to support the world’s cellular and WiMAX networks.

“We created this system to address the numerous backhaul and capacity issues that exist in the marketplace today,” states Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber. “We appreciate all of the insight and support we have received from the industry and look forward to delivering our network-neutral, dark fiber, colocation and wireless tower access services to all that need it.”

Allied Fiber has implemented a new, multi-duct design for intermediate access to the long-haul fiber duct through a parallel short-haul fiber duct all along the route. This enables all points between the major cities, including wireless towers and rural networks, to gain access to the dark fiber. In addition, the Allied Fiber neutral colocation facilities, located approximately every 60 miles along the route, accommodate and encourage a multi-tenant interconnection environment integrated with fiber that does not yet exist in the United States on this scale.

“The name Allied Fiber was chosen to signify a new type of all-access, physical layer network,” continues Rory J. Cutaia, Executive Chairman of Allied Fiber. “This network specifically manages competing systems in a common, carrier-neutral infrastructure offering ownership and management of individual fiber pairs.”

The first phase of the system will provide a combined 648 dark fibers, nineteen 700+ sq ft colocation facilities and 300 tower sites all integrated into one system from one provider, creating a new standard for interconnection. With planned, direct connections to the submarine cable systems linking the Atlantic, Caribbean, Latin American and Pacific cables, Allied Fiber will also provide express routing of traffic through the United States on the latest and most advanced fiber types available. Building new, shortest path, physical duct and fiber routes combined with modern fiber will result in lower latencies as well as higher capacities to be achieved between these points.

Allied Fiber has selected Michels Communications, a division of Michels Corporation, Henkels & McCoy, Inc. and Adesta, LLC to construct and install various portions of the system. The entire Phase One deployment is scheduled to be completed by fourth quarter of 2010.

“All our fiber and colocation construction projects are rapidly progressing, thanks to the teamwork we have with our outstanding contractors and strategic partners who are committed to building a world-class network,” continues Jason Cohen, Allied Fiber President & COO.

The new 432-count, long haul cable coupled with the 216-count, short-haul cable will be a composite of Single-Mode (SMF) and Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted (NZDSF) fibers. By having a high-fiber count and being network-neutral, Allied Fiber is able to offer dark fiber and at lower unit costs.

The Company is currently accepting customer agreements for fiber and colocation in the system, evidencing the strong demand for Allied Fiber’s all-access integrated interconnection facility network.

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Conference Call

Allied Fiber will host a live video conference call for recipients to answer questions on this announcement at 8:00AM Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 26^th. 

To participate in the video-conference, please email Ilissa Miller at ilissa@jaymiescotto.com.  Directions for the conference call, either by video or just audio, will be sent to you directly.

About Allied Fiber
Allied Fiber was created to address America’s need to eliminate obstacles for broadband access, wireless backhaul and lower latency through new, next generation long haul dark fiber and an open access philosophy. The Allied Fiber team is comprised of experts in the fields of communications, network construction and finance.  They are dedicated to building and providing access to an abundant supply of dark fiber in areas where it is most needed. The first phase of new duct and fiber construction will be between New York, NY, Ashburn, VA and Chicago, IL. For more information, please visit www.alliedfiber.com.

Have you been following the latest on Steve Jobs’ decision to restrict FLASH based apps on his Apple iPads, iPhones and such? Jobs’ take on it is that the user experience and overall quality is at risk by loading his devices with FLASH. He says it makes them unreliable and not as secure. The debate is heating up as several industry leaders recently weighed in on the discussion. GrantKirkwood, CTO PacketExchange, a next generation IP and network services provider, commented about the use of FLASH on Apple’s devices, saying that although there are some technical challenges in doing so – they can be overcome. This makes for interesting conversation. Read below to see what other technology gurus, such as Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen are saying on the subject along with what’s to come in our technology future.

The full article can also be found here: http://www.von.com/articles/5-misconceptions-in-apple-v–flash.html

5 Misconceptions in Apple v. Flash

User Experience, Bugs ‘Thinly Veiled Excuses’

By: Richard Martin

05/07/2010

With ITW 2010 just two weeks away, I’m sure you are scheduling meetings with the fierce veracity of the business you will be doing at this leading global event for the wholesale telecom industry.  The Marriott Wardman Park will be a flurry with men and women in suits doing deals.  But in order to do deals – you need to know the companies that you can do business with.  Here are six companies that you may want to consider meeting:

Allied Fiber -spearheading the US Nation’s first long-haul dark fiber network system in over 10 years, this company is building a next-generation dark fiber network that will circumvent the United States providing access to all types of communication companies including carriers, service provides, mobile operators, microwave operators and more.  Allied Fiber is changing the way that networks are built in the US.  It is ‘America’s All Access Network’ bridging the communications gap between the middle mile and local mile together with International submarine cable systems – coast-to-coast.  Simply search for ‘Allied Fiber’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

Arbinet- No longer just the voice exchange that was launched in the late ’90’s – in the past year+ the company has transformed itself into a leading service provider and partner enabling companies, large and small, to leverage its world class infrastructure to achieve greater ROI on global termination of international voice minutes.  Connecting customers now companies have the control they require, with the intelligence to support them – without the traditionally heavy operating expenses.  You will want to find out about their premium voice services, carrier services, private exchange, mobile routes and developing products that will help you get the most out of your minute margins.  Oh – and their Data Exchange and IP solutions are cool too.  Simply search for ‘Arbinet’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

Hibernia Atlantic- The company has transformed substantially in the past year.  It’s Project Kelvin – submarine cable system connecting Northern Ireland to North America and Europe is now live.  The company also acquired MediaXstream in December 2009 bringing them into the media space.  The company has re-branded this group to Hibernia Media.  With services ideal for the financial industry - Hibernia’s Global Financial Network, for the streaming media/content industry – Hibernia Media and its wholesale carrier services via its leading transatlantic network, this is a company you will want to get to know – again.  Simply search for ‘Hibernia’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

Lexent Metro Connect- want to provide custom services and solutions in the New York Metro market?  Then this is the company you need to know.  Lexent Metro Connect constructs and operates its own dark fiber network throughout the NY Metro market.  It has the ability to build and design custom solutions ensuring the lowest latency through the shortest path.  Simply search for ‘Lexent’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

PacketExchange - This company has been quietly building an enhanced value global IP and Ethernet network based on its vast peering relationships and solutions.  In February 2010 the company acquired Mzima Networks, a provider of layer-2 Ethernet solutions throughout the US with reach to Asia and Europe.  With PacketExchange’s roots in Europe, the combined company has the ability to provide end-to-end bandwidth solutions to meet any growing network demand.  Simply search for ‘PacketExchange’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

Tinet Tinet, formerly the carrier arm of Tiscali Group, is the only global carrier exclusively committed to the IP and Ethernet wholesale market. With network presence and customers in EMEA, Americas and APAC, Tinet provides global IP Transit and Ethernet connectivity to Carriers, Service and Content Providers worldwide, within 7 working days. The carrier guarantees customers proactive management of SLAs and protection from dDoS attacks.  Simply search for ‘Tinet’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.-

Of course these are my recommendations – there are many others to meet with as well.  You can download a list of all companies and attendees through the DealCenter – this way you can plan your meetings more effectively and ensure you get deals done.   And if you’re not going to ITW (a. you will be missed, b. still time to plan) you can request a meeting with these companies directly by visiting their websites.  Hope to see you in DC – May 24-26, 2010!  

Need help?  Want more information about ITW or these companies?  email: support@deal-center.com

Allied Fiber is a unique company.  It is building a dark fiber network that will provide connectivity, ample bandwidth and offer a unique backhaul solution to solve carriers’ critical transport issues.  The company has just published a paper titled ‘Allied Fiber Helps Bring Fiber to the Tower – Your Tower’ illustrating how its network  design allows for intermediate access points along its fiber route to offer wireless towers easy ‘on and off ramps’ to the wireline infrastructure.

Below are highlights of the key benefits Allied Fiber offers Tower Operators:

 Allied Fiber will work with the tower operator and/or the mobile wireless service providers to identify the towers that require fiber for Ethernet transport services along the Allied Fiber route

 With this information, Allied Fiber will identify optimal locations for handholes to be placed on the short-haul duct where lateral ducts can be built to reach the towers

 This information can be provided to the Ethernet transport provider vendors that supply services to the mobile operators so that they can determine which towers they would like to build as extensions off of the Allied Fiber route

Tower Operator Benefits

 Solve the Ethernet backhaul issue

 Keep mobile operator tenants on the tower

 Attract new tenants

 Support justification for increased lease rates

For the complete Tower Operator Benefits – please email info@alliedfiber.com

Esat Sezer, the CIO of Coca-Cola Enterprises was recently interviewed by Meet The Boss TV.  More than just a ’shelf replenishment company,’ the company has over 70,000 employees of which over 50% are mobile.  Esat had quite a few challenges to overcome in order to transition the business and implement technology to support the company’s mobility and transportation leveraging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). 

Coca-Cola is one of the largest global companies, and with more than 50% of its workforce mobile the company had quite a few challenges to overcome.  Imagine tracking employees, locations, equipment, deliveries, replenishment, and more.  It is this day and age that enables a global company of this nature know what they have and how they can deliver it.  Technology, communications, telecommunications, IP solutions, applications and more are the embodiment of a successful business enablement strategy.

To watch the complete interview, please click here or on the photo capture below.

March 2, 2010 Arbinet introduced its new Premium Mobile Routing Table which provides CLI guarantees.  This is a strategic move for the company, one they’ve been looking to make with the right person on board.  In January, the company tapped Brian Troesch to head up Product.  Brian’s experience in developing and implementing premium mobile routing has been touted – his legacy is currently living on at Belgacom ICS.

The Premium Mobile Routing Table is available for use by Arbinet Carrier Service (ACS) customers.  There are a number of different levels of service available on ACS, Premium Mobile is the highest quality routing table, designed for both fixed and mobile operators whose retail customers require advanced features and need the highest quality voice termination available.

Another new feature with this announcement is ACS’s new Customer Based Routing^sm option.  This provides customers the ability to select different grades of service for each destination on a route-by-route basis over a single trunk group.  This is flexibility at its best for global voice termination solutions.  Most wholesale carriers know where the bulk of their traffic is going and which routes they need to improve upon.  ACS Customer Based Routing offers the absolute flexibility that small, medium and large carriers require.

For more information about the announcement, please continue to read the press release, issued at 8am local time in Singapore, London and the US (EST).  Or visit www.arbinet.com

Arbinet Introduces Premium Mobile Routing Table with CLI Guarantee

Direct Mobile Termination to more than 250 Networks

 New York, NY, USA – March 2, 2010 – Arbinet Corporation [Nasdaq: ARBX] announces today that it has introduced a new Premium Mobile routing table for use by Arbinet Carrier Service (ACS) customers*. Premium Mobile is the highest quality routing table available on the ACS platform. Premium Mobile is designed for both fixed and mobile operators whose retail customers require advanced features and need the highest quality voice termination available.  Arbinet Carrier Services features multiple levels of quality and Customer Based Routing^sm where a customer can select from varied grades of service for each destination on a route-by-route basis over a single trunk group.

Key features and benefits of Arbinet’s Premium Mobile termination include:

• Direct termination to more than 250 Fixed and Mobile network operators
• Guaranteed Caller Line Identity (CLI) transmission and delivery to terminating network suppliers
• Support for Mobile Subscriber Roaming Number (MSRN) ranges
• Release code management
• Mobile Number Portability (MNP) & Local  Number Portability (LNP) support using the Arbinet Global Number Portability platform
• Proactive testing & monitoring of Answer Seizure Ratio (ASR), Average Length of Call (ALOC) & Call Completion Ratio (CCR)
• 24×7 Multi-lingual premium Customer Care support
• On-line Trouble Reporting
• On-line Traffic Management & Quality of Service (QoS) Reporting
• Prepaid support

Arbinet has been offering Premium Mobile routes since late 2009.  CLI delivery and MSRN support enable operators to deliver a higher quality experience to their customers and to increase revenues through higher ARPU and reduced churn.

“At Digicel we take every effort to ensure the highest possible quality of service for our mobile subscribers and inbound roamers. Having access to high quality voice services with direct fixed and mobile termination, CLI delivery, and MSRN support helps to meet these increasingly complex demands. Arbinet’s new Premium Mobile CLI solution provides us with the type of quality routing and voice termination required by our customers,” commented Mario Rojas, Director Carrier Services at leading Caribbean and Central American mobile operator Digicel Group.

“In 2009, Arbinet increased the flexibility with which it works with the marketplace. We launched ACS, a traditional wholesale way of working with customers and suppliers. ACS features standard rate sheets, utilizes supplier codes and has no fees,” said Brian Troesch, Sr. Vice President, Product & Business Development. “We made a concerted effort to drive away low-quality traffic from the network through the deployment of False Answer Supervision (FAS) identification protocols and technology. And we worked hard to identify the high quality direct termination routes from our 1100+ suppliers. With the addition of our Premium Mobile service, retail fixed and mobile operators now have a new choice to route their highest quality traffic flows.”

Arbinet offers three ways for carriers and service providers to originate and terminate international voice traffic. Arbinet Carrier Services is a standard wholesale interface with no fees, a single invoice and rate lock. It uses supplier codes in its wholesale routing plans. PrivateExchange^sm is an easy to use, low-risk outsourcing approach that enables service providers to create virtual direct routes and aggregate existing interconnects. thexchange™ is the industry’s leading marketplace for buying and selling voice communications.

For more information about Arbinet please visit www.arbinet.com or e-mail sales@arbinet.com.

[1] All underlying CLI routes used in Arbinet’s Premium Mobile table are available on thexchange.

About Arbinet

Arbinet is a leading provider of international voice and IP solutions to carriers and service providers globally. With more than 1100 carriers across the world connected to the Arbinet Network, Arbinet combines global scale with sophisticated platform intelligence, call routing and industry leading credit management and settlement capabilities. Customers and suppliers include many leading fixed line, mobile, wholesale and VoIP carriers as well as calling card, ISPs and content providers around the world who buy and sell voice and IP telecommunications capacity and content.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements regarding anticipated future revenues, growth, capital expenditures, management’s future expansion plans, expected product and service developments or enhancements, discussions of strategy, and future operating results. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by, among other things, the use of forward-looking terminology such as: “believes,” expects,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “should”” “confident,” “work to,” “seeks,” or “anticipates,” or the negative thereof or other variations thereon or comparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy. Various risks and uncertainties may cause Arbinet’s actual results to differ materially from those express or implied in such forward-looking statements. Please refer to Part I, Item 1A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2009, and other filings that have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a description of the risks and uncertainties that Arbinet faces. Arbinet assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, and such statements are current only as of the date they are made.