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Alteva, a vendor of enterprise hosted VoIP in North America, publicly thanked the Philadelphia Phillies for their prize of two bushels of oranges. Alteva entered into a friendly wager with its Tampa Bay-based competitor, Televations, over the 2008 World Series which the Phillies won four games to one.

 

The bet between the two hosted phone system providers had Alteva putting up a dozen cheese steaks against Telovations’ (News - Alert) two bushels of oranges.

 

First Coffee is waiting for the Milwaukee Brewers to make – and lose – the World Series so he can win a case of beer on one of these bets. Or maybe for the Orioles to lose and hand over a few gallons of Baltimore clam chowder. Anybody wanting to put Carolina pit barbecue on the Panthers’ chances this year please get in touch immediately.

 

The pot was sweetened by BroadSoft (News - Alert), a vendor of VoIP application software allowing the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services for both vendors. BroadSoft presented the winner with two complimentary tickets (a value of $1,690) to Connections 2009, its annual executive users’ conference, October 26–29 in Scottsdale, Arizona.

 

“Where we may compete in some instances, Alteva looks at other hosted providers as allies in delivering the message that hosted products have now become a no-brainer for businesses looking to take advantage of Voice over IP,” said William Bumbernick, President and CEO of Alteva.

 

Politicians are prone to loony sports bets as well, the one this reporter remembers is after one Dallas-Pittsburgh Super Bowl won by the Steelers, a congressman from Texas had to wear Terry Bradshaw’s jersey for a day. He was pictured standing beside a beaming congressman from Pennsylvania.

 

Alteva sells commercial clients a telephone system requiring “minimal installation and configuration” while “eliminating monthly phone system maintenance charges and reducing overall telephony costs,” company officials say: “Rather than building their processes around their phone system, Alteva’s customers build their phone systems around their ideal processes.”