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Sarasota, Florida, August 23, 2011 – Star2Star Communications, makers of “The World’s Most Reliable Internet Phone Solution”, today announced that Inc. magazine named Star2Star to the 30th annual Inc. 500 ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. It is the company’s first appearance on the prestigious list. The 500 companies are chosen from the nearly 7 million privately held companies in the U.S.A.

“When we started Star2Star back in 2006, we knew we had some very special technology. I’m very proud of the entire team at Star2Star, and I’m also proud of our more than 300 agents and dealers, who are a large part of our success”, said Norman Worthington, CEO of Star2Star.

Star2Star posted sales of $10.8 Million for 2010, representing a three-year growth rate of 1555.9%. The company sold more than 12,000 telephone systems in the past twelve months, and currently serves nearly 200,000 users.

Star2Star customers typically save around 50% on their monthly telephone expenses. The savings are usually more than enough to offset the leasing cost for the phone system. As a result, Star2Star delivers a state of the art phone system that saves customers money from day one. Star2Star’s lower operating costs are a direct result of the company’s unique Blended Architecture, which provides high-quality, high-reliability telephone connections over ordinary Internet connections.

“While we’re thrilled to place on the Inc. 500 list, we’re really just getting started”, said Joe Rhem, President of Star2Star. “We’ve recently won some very large customer accounts that will significantly increase our revenue stream going forward”, Rhem said.

About the Inc. 500:

The 2011 Inc. 500 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2007 to 2010. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2007. Additionally, they had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent-not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies-as of December 31, 2010. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.’s September issue. Companies such as Microsoft, Zappos, Intuit, Jamba Juice, Zipcar, Clif Bar, Vizio, Oracle, and many other well-known names gained early exposure as members of the Inc. 500.

About Star2Star:

Founded in 2006 in Sarasota, Florida, Star2Star Communications develops and delivers business-focused Internet telephone systems and service. Star2Star’s award-winning technology employs a powerful Blended Architecture that overcomes the limitations of other Internet phone technologies. Star2Star delivers innovative features and increased productivity while providing substantial cost savings.

Star2Star products are sold through a diversified international network of distributors, master agents, and certified installing dealers. Available across North America, Star2Star Internet telephone systems are installed in thousands of small- and medium-sized businesses and in many large national retail and restaurant chains.

Internet Telephony Magazine has named Star2Star’s flagship Star2Star Business Internet Telephone System as “Product of the Year” for the fifth consecutive year.

Sarasota, FL (Vocus/PRWEB) February 09, 2011
Star2Star Communications, makers of “The World’s Most Reliable Internet Phone Solution”, today announced the most recent in a long series of industry awards. Internet Telephony Magazine has named the company’s flagship Star2Star Business Internet Telephone System as “Product of the Year” for the fifth consecutive year.
“This award underscores the superiority of our system architecture,” said Joe Rhem, President of Star2Star. “We’re in an industry that changes continually, so I’m especially proud of our development, sales, and support teams for keeping us at the forefront of VoIP technology,” he added.
The editors of Internet Telephony Magazine chose the award winners based on the product’s quality, innovation, and ability to meet customer needs. The 2010 Product of the Year winners are published in the February 2011 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, (http://www.itmag.com). INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the authority in IP communication since 1998™.

About Star2Star:

Star2Star Communications offers the revolutionary StarSolution, the world’s only Blended Architecture voice communications system. Joining a proprietary premise-based PBX with custom cloud-based voice services, Star2Star’s unique End-to-End solution is built together to work together. Star2Star monitors the solution 24/7, and sells and installs through a certified service network three thousand strong. This exclusive combination of architecture, monitoring and deliverability results in best of class features, business grade call quality, guaranteed reliability, dramatic savings and has made Star2Star Communications the only voice services vendor capable of providing a complete solution to every business address in North America served by broadband Internet.

Offering a CCM solution to Star2Star customers will provide them with business tools that have traditionally only been available to large organizations and call centers.

Sarasota, FL (Vocus) September 30, 2010

Star2Star Communications, maker of “The World’s Most Reliable Internet Phone Solution,” announced today that the company has acquired the BridgeWorks Customer Communication Management (CCM) software from BridgeFive Solutions.

BridgeFive President Randy Richardson has also joined Star2Star Communications as Chief Product Officer, where he is now responsible for setting direction and managing development of Star2Star products.

Before founding BridgeFive, Mr. Richardson held CIO positions at several national retail chains, including Best Buy, Talbots, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Ann Taylor, where he developed and implemented technology solutions for national and global retail, call center, and Internet operations.

“Offering a CCM solution to Star2Star customers will provide them with business tools that have traditionally only been available to large organizations and call centers. I am thrilled to join the Star2Star team and help to develop many new and exciting products for our customers,” said Mr. Richardson.

BridgeWorks brings big-business communications management to smaller companies by integrating the company’s customer database with their telephone system. This powerful combination allows businesses to leverage their customer contact data to provide better, faster, more professional service to customers.

BridgeWorks provides functionality for both inbound and outbound calls, and displays “screen pops” which contain information about the customer, including details on previous calls or orders. Included management tools let call management monitor overall and individual employee performance.

Star2Star Awarded Internet Telephony 2010 Excellence Award

Star2Star Communications, maker of “The World’s Most Reliable Internet Phone Solution,” announced today that the company has received a 2010 Internet Telephony Excellence Award from TMC, publisher of Internet Telephony Magazine.

The annual Excellence Awards are presented to companies that provide case studies of IP Communications success experienced by one of their clients after implementing the nominated product/service. Awards are based on demonstrated improvements that the winner’s product/service has made in the client’s businesses.

“We’re very gratified to receive the recognition. We’re also gratified that the client we featured in our award entry has just ordered Star2Star systems for two more of their business locations.” said Norman Worthington, CEO of Star2Star.

“This is the third major award we’ve won in the past six weeks”, added Joe Rhem, President of Star2Star. “This award underscores the value of our unique Blended Architecture End-to-End System Architecture”, he continued.

“All the companies recognized have created IP communications products that have proven to be exceptional and in the end delivered winning solutions that benefited their customer,” stated Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC, the publishers of Internet Telephony Magazine.