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Good news for internet telephony: Plantronics and Skype form strategic partnership

Plantronics, Inc., leading producer of communications headsets worldwide, and Skype Technologies S.A., the global P2P telephony company, today announced a strategic partnership to provide communications solutions for the growing number of Skype users. The strategic agreement detailed their shared vision for the advancement of modern telephony solutions. The agreement establishes Plantronics as the globally preferred headset provider for Skype, and a range of Plantronics headsets bundled with a free trial of Skype’s premium services is in the pipeline.
For more than 40 years, Plantronics has developed lightweight and superbly-designed headsets that enhance personal communications and deliver crystal clear audio performance. Plantronics brings a range of advanced voice technologies to the partnership, so Skype users can get the best audio performance—definitely improving their internet telephony experience. Plantronics’ DSP and .Audio lines of PC headsets, for example, are ideal for internet telephony and VoIP applications. With its suite of Bluetooth headsets, Plantronics also offers a new dimension of unmatched mobility for any IP access device, such as a PC, PDA or mobile phone that could potentially host converged mobile Skype services.
Skype technology enables free, superior quality, unlimited worldwide voice calls via broadband, LAN and hot spot wireless IP connections. Skype is the global leader in offering free worldwide calling, a robust user-propagated directory, multi-language selection and expanding services such as global conference calling. Using a Plantronics headset, users can achieve Internet audio performance that rivals or exceeds traditional landline quality. The significant market impact of both companies illustrates the success of their technological innovations. Skype software has been downloaded more than 8 million times by users from more than 165 countries, and last year Plantronics shipped more than 14 million headsets for the mobile, computer, residential, enterprise and contact center markets.