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Mobile VoIP solutions provider xG Technology (News - Alert) Inc. is reportedly expanding its market reach beyond its initial market in Daytona Beach, Fla., to include new customers in Maryland, South Carolina, Kansas and elsewhere in Florida.

Shipments of the company's xMax VoIP base station, which facilitates mobile VoIP, are commencing in these new markets.

“It is rewarding to be at the stage where we are supplying a number of new customers in multiple markets who will be deploying their networks using our low cost solution and equipment," said Frank Peake, deputy COO of xG, in a press release.

xG’s proprietary, chip-based 4G wireless technology is a low cost method for delivering mobile VoIP. Its xMax system, which works in the sub-GHz frequency range, is said to be “1,000 times more efficient than WiMAX,” and can send and receive signals at a range of up to 18 miles. The technology uses single-cycle modulation, and also uses a narrowband timing signal to synchronize and decode a wide-band, low-power signal (similar to that used in ultra-wideband).

The real strength of the platform, however, is its efficiency. Compared to WiMAX (News - Alert) and WiFi systems, xMax operates at much lower power levels – so low, in fact, that the company claims a base station can operate on a single watch battery for years. Yet xMax costs roughly 25 times less than a traditional wireless phone system.

In addition to the base station, the system includes dual mode mobile VoIP phones which come equipped with a WiFi (News - Alert) chip so that users can roam to areas not initially covered by the xMax networks. The company’s phones also sport an Ethernet jack, allowing users to plug into fixed wireline networks.

The company claims that with this new technology, small companies, institutions and communities can deploy wireless VoIP networks for thousands rather than millions of dollars. The robust, yet affordable technology holds promise for a wide variety of applications in the future. However, the company is not heavily marketing its solution, rather, it is letting business grow “organically” through customer demand. The company seems confident that once organizations discover the advantages afforded through its advanced 4G technology, that it will take off all on its own.

xG, which started in 2006, announced its plans to launch its new mobile VoIP service in Florida back in September. The new service was rolled out in November 2007 and now the provider plans to roll out services in the aforementioned markets.

For more information, visit www.xgtechnology.com.

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Patrick Barnard is Assignment Editor for TMCnet and Associate Editor for Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.

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