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Roshan, a GSM cellular service provider in Afghanistan, has contracted to utilize Arbinet's thexchange marketplace to buy and sell international voice communications and PrivateExchange to facilitate direct interconnects between it and correspondent carriers and bi-lateral partners.

Officials with Arbinet (News - Alert) said that by utilizing the company'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.

Company officials said that Arbinet's CreditWatch credit management and settlement technology, which is backed by third-party underwriting, guarantees fast, reliable payments for traffic received.

According to company officials, 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," said Karim Khoja, CEO of Roshan, in a statement.

Khoja said that 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.

"Using PrivateExchange, we will be able to easily develop bi-lateral routes and send and receive traffic with designated telecommunications providers", he said.

Khoja said that 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.

Powdermaker said that with one interconnect, Roshan gains access to two unique International Voice Services.

He said that 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.