articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . december 2012 faktortel pty ltd. type private industry telecommunications voip founded qld australia 2004 headquarters qld australia key people christopher cowling allan cowling founders website www.faktortel.com.au faktortel pty ltd. is an australian based communications company that uses its voip network to deliver phone service to residential business and wholesale consumers . faktortel is the owner and operator of their purpose built voip network spanning all major capital cities across australia and have formed agreements with optus aapt powertel and mci verizon which provides them with national and global reach . faktortel was founded in queensland australia in april 2004 by christopher and allan cowling and received an australian government grant 1 for providing voip throughout regional and rural australia . in october 2008 faktortel opened an additional branch using its vsppanel product in texas in the usa with further advances into canada ireland and the uk scheduled for 2009 . faktortel usa also saw the release of partnerships with incoming number firms to allow for incoming numbers to be routed worldwide in 50 countries and 9000 locations . in december 2014 faktortel acquired atpnet a division of austech partnerships widely regarded as australia s oldest voip provider adding additional network resources as well as increasing the customer base by approximately 5 % . 2 in december 2015 faktortel was acquired by the public company over the wire ltd and now operates under the over the wire umbrella of companies asx otw . 3 contents 1 government grant 2 vsppanel voip project 3 references 4 external links government grant edit in june 2005 faktortel was the receiver of a government grant for the provisioning of voip services throughout regional and rural australia . the grant was part of the australian government s comet initiative commercialising emerging technologies and was for a total of 60 000 aud . the grant concluded in june 2007 with full australian broadband access to the faktortel voip network . vsppanel voip project edit faktortel developed the vsppanel project over the course of 3 years and released it to the public in 2007 . the project is currently seeking funding for large scale deployment in data centers worldwide . using mainly open source components along with an open source operating system vsppanel is designed to allow the creation of voip networks using low cost hardware and co located data center solutions . much the same as what cpanel does for web hosting . the core components of the vsppanel project are the asterisk pbx pbx system along with linux and the vsppanel management billing software . references edit australian government grant australia s oldest voip provider atpnet s customers move to fast growing faktortel . newsmaker.com.au . retrieved 30 august 2014 . over the wire prospectus pdf . retrieved december 2015 . check date values in access date help wilson eric 20 june 2006 . in business with net phone . australian it . retrieved 2008 07 18 . kidman angus 19 april 2005 . hidden traps in internet phone system . australian it . retrieved 2008 07 18 . timson lia 26 july 2005 . free patch to fix adsl problem affecting internet calls . the age . retrieved 2008 07 18 . external links edit faktortel corporate web site australian government grant for faktortel pty. ltd vsppanel website this article about an australian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a telecommunications company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title faktortel & oldid 719133649 categories companies established in 2005telecommunications companies of australiavoip companiesaustralian company stubstelecommunications company stubshidden categories cs1 errors datesorphaned articles from december 2012all orphaned articlesuse dmy dates from may 2011use australian english from may 2011all wikipedia articles written in australian englishall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 may 2016 at 20 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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