United World Telecom is a switch-based telecommunications service

Telecommunications service

In telecommunication, the term telecommunications service has the following meanings:1. Any service provided by a telecommunication provider....

 provider, located in Florida, USA, serving retail, wholesale, and corporate customers worldwide. Established in 1996, United World Telecom has rapidly expanded its global presence in the last eight years initially by offering international callback service and later adding wide variety of other services such as international calling cards, direct dial, ANI callback, wholesale international calling, and Web trigger callback.

History

United World Telecom (UWT) is a telecommunications company based in Delray Beach, Florida, USA. Founded in 1996 by Thierry Genoyer, United World Telecom (UWT) began as a switch-based international callback provider. UWT has since added a number of international calling and call forwarding services, including virtual calling cards, voice over IP

Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol networks, such as the Internet...

, direct dial, call forwarding, and toll free

Toll-free telephone number

A toll-free, Freecall, Freephone, 800, 0800 or 1-800 number is a special telephone number which is free to the calling party, and instead the telephone carrier charges the called party the cost of the call...

 numbers. The company serves a global market

Globalization

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 and offers reseller and agent partner programs to those interested in starting their own telecommunications business.

United World Telecom has its own switching center located in a professional telecommunications center in Miami and utilizes multiple underlying Tier 1 carriers to connect calls.

Services

International Callback: This service allows the customers to bypass high international calling rates in parts of the world where international calling rates are is still very high. To accomplish this UWT switching network chooses the appropriate carrier for each customer call based on the origination country of the call and the destination country. Because different carriers have different prices and levels of quality for calls to certain countries, the switch chooses the carrier with the best quality at the most effective cost for each call.

Virtual Calling Card: The company offers international calling cards known as “Virtual Calling Cards.” Calling card

Calling card

Calling card may refer to:* Visiting card, a card originally used socially to signify a visit made to a house if the occupant were absent, or as an introduction for oneself; the precursor to the modern business card...

 customers are given a unique PIN (personal identification number

Personal identification number

A personal identification number is a secret numeric password shared between a user and a system that can be used to authenticate the user to the system. Typically, the user is required to provide a non-confidential user identifier or token and a confidential PIN to gain access to the system...

). To use the service, an access number is dialed and the PIN is entered. This gives the customer access to UWT’s network where they can then dial the destination number.

Global Call Connect: Global Call Connect is a direct dial international calling service. Customer dials an access number from a fixed or mobile phone

Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

, and upon verification of the caller ID

Caller ID

Caller ID , also called calling line identification or calling number identification or Calling Line Identification Presentation , is a telephone service, available in analog and digital phone systems and most Voice over Internet Protocol applications, that transmits a caller's number to...

 number of the customer, access is given to United World Telecom’s international calling network without the need of a PIN.

CallMe800: This is a call forwarding service through which customers can obtain a personal toll free phone number

Telephone number

A telephone number or phone number is a sequence of digits used to call from one telephone line to another in a public switched telephone network. When telephone numbers were invented, they were short — as few as one, two or three digits — and were given orally to a switchboard operator...

 and automatically redirect calls to any phone number in the world.

UWTMobile SIM Cards: Mobile phone SIM cards for GSM cell phones. SIM cards that can be inserted into GSM cell phones to allow the user to access GSM networks.

CallMyGlobalNumber: This call forwarding service allows customers to have a local phone number in another country or area than where they are located. Calls to that personal number are automatically redirected to any phone number in the world.

Global VoIP Connect: Global VoIP Connect is a Voice Over IP service. VoIP uses a broadband internet connection to transmit calls. Calls can be made from a personal computer

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

 using VoIP software or from a specialized VoIP phone.

Partner Programs

United World Telecom offers a number of partner programs designed to let outside people or businesses to sell their services. There are currently reseller and agent opportunities available for UWT’s international callback service, Global Call Connect service, 'UWT mobile SIM cards' and Global VoIP Connect service. In addition, there is a calling card distributorship.

The reseller program is a system in which the business partner sells UWT services under their own private label. UWT resellers have no visible ties with United World Telecom. Rather, they all have their own unique brand name. Resellers are also responsible for creating their own rates.

The UWT agent program differs from the reseller program because UWT agents use the United World Telecom brand name and rates. Agents are paid a commission by the company.

Wholesale calling cards are made available by UWT. This allows entrepreneurs to start a business as calling card distributors.

A premier agent of United world Telecom is 'United World Telecom 4 Me' which was recommended in the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

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 in 2006.

External links

• United World Telecom
• UWTMobile
• Global Call Forwarding
• SIM Cards
  Subscriber Identity Module
  A subscriber identity module or subscriber identification module is an integrated circuit that securely stores the International Mobile Subscriber Identity and the related key used to identify and authenticate subscriber on mobile telephony devices .A SIM is held on a removable SIM card, which...