Consulting firm Frost & Sullivan has presented its 2006 Service of the Year Award in the IP communication market to New Global Telecom (NGT) for its IP telephony suite 6DegreesIP.

"NGT’s 6DegreesIP supports both service providers with a primary focus on the residential VoIP service market as well as wholesale customers that provide business IP telephony services," says Frost & Sullivan Industry Manager, IP Communications, Elka Popova. "The entire service portfolio leverages NGT’s extensive network origination/termination footprint and its sophisticated network management capability, retail billing and OSS functionality, customer premise equipment (CPE) testing and support, as well as sales, marketing, and training support."

As of November 2005, NGT boasted over 45 wholesale customers including unbundled network element platform (UNE-P) competitive local exchange carriers, Internet service providers, application service providers, data network providers, Tier 1 U.S. carriers and some Tier 1 overseas carriers. By Q4 of 2005, approximately 78 percent of NGT’s end-user seats were business users and 22 percent were residential users. During the current quarter, NGT anticipates that the percentage of business users will rise to 85 percent.