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VoIP services supplier Vistula Communications (News - Alert) announced on Tuesday that it joined forces with Envox IP to open a series franchised retail call shops across Venezuela. The move follows several months of trial deployments of Vistula's VoIP technology platform, V-Cube in the South American country.

The agreement calls for Envox and a group of Venezuelan equipment and software providers to deploy proprietary VoIP-based telephony systems that will run on the country's most commonly used "call shop" equipment and software.

Envox will offer proprietary V-Cube-based VoIP systems which will be deployed across a number of call shops in Venezuela by the first week of December. The company plans to install Vistula's V-Cube-based VoIP system in least 60 call shops within the next six to twelve months.

“Our VoIP offering is the first of its kind to be marketed by a licensed telecommunications carrier in Venezuela. By leveraging Vistula’s V-Cube VoIP platform, we are able to provide a cost effective IP-based solution to each of our call shop franchises, giving each of them a competitive advantage over the traditional call shops that utilize PSTN solution,” said Envox’s president Jorge Sierra in a statement.

Today’s news follows Vistula’s announcement about it acquiring Goodman Blue Limited last month.

Goodman Blue, a UK-based systems integration and software house, provides a software package that enables service providers to deliver real-time, self-service and fully automated, provisioning, rating, billing, service management and reporting of telecom and other services. Integrated with Vistula’s services, this software will sit on the outside of V-Cube so that service providers can manage of their customers’ billable activity. The Goodman Blue system is called Order to Cash (O2C).

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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit her columnist page.