Gradwell dot com Limited is pleased to be running a competition in association with Future Publishing and .net magazine.
To enter this competition please see .net magazine. You will need to answer the following questions:

1. What is the acronym of the UK’s IP trade body?
2. How old is the British Computer Society?
3. In the biggest VoIP sale of all time, how much did eBay buy Skype for?

The prizes are as follows:

• 1 year’s unlimited UK calls using an HTC Tytn Windows Mobile PDA, with GPS; emails, web browsing, VoIP calls over WiFi.) Total value: £700).
• Second prize: a pair of Camrivox Flexor 500 multi-line business phones, plus Centrex UK Unlimited – a business phone with unlimited UK calls. Total value: £330.

Introduction to VoIP and Gradwell:
VoIP – Internet Telephony, is a means of making phone calls over the internet. It is commonly used by IT professionals and increasingly home and small business users. VoIP is rapidly becoming a huge phenomenon, as demonstrated by the success of US provider Vonage, and the 2.6 Billion dollar purchase of Skype, a popular internet calling service, by EBay, the online auction website.

A pioneer of VoIP in the UK, Peter Gradwell co-founded the IP industry’s trade association ITSPA, chaired Nominet’s Policy Board and in 2006 became the British Computer Society’s youngest-ever Fellow. The BCS recently celebrated its 50th Birthday.

His company Gradwell dot com (www.gradwell.com ) is a Top 3 provider of VoIP to SMEs and has won several commendations in the DTI-Interforum eCommerce awards.

Among the company’s recent joint-venture innovations is the Camrivox Flexor 500, providing a feature-rich VoIP service with the ability to message through Outlook.

Portability of existing numbers to the Gradwell service was introduced in 2006, along with the offer of a comprehensive range of “golden numbers”, giving receivers of callers the perception of, for example, calls coming from a London location even though they are being made (and received) overseas, or outside the capital in any chosen UK dwelling/office.

In addition, Gradwell offers a VoIP service for Nokia e-Series business mobiles.

Readers of Net interested in reading Peter Gradwell’s book on VoIP, called Introducing VoIP, should contact Jack Ozanne 07973 770942; published under the aegis of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) Introducing VoIP offers a practical guide to all VoIP options available in the UK to the end of 2006.

It identifies potential benefits to businesses and individuals from a range of perspectives. It is available from the ICAEW’s Faculty of Information Technology - under the latter’s Chartech publication banner - for £12.50 plus postage.