PCNET crosses the Ocean

Communications operator PCNET has opened its first sales office across the Atlantic in New York. Although it did not disclose the invested amount, the company might soon open such offices in Los Angeles and Miami, another two American cities with large Romanian communities. Along with the announcement about the opening of the sales office in New York, PCNET launched an IP videoconferencing service. The new service targets the Romanians part of the Diaspora or the individuals that have relatives abroad and want to be able talk to them by words and images. The IP videoconferencing service is only available in the PCNET centres in 12 Romanian cities (Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi, Brasov, Timisoara, Constanta, Ploiesti, Braila, Bacau, Oradea, Craiova and Galati) and in New York. The clients do not need to own a computer, be broadband Internet subscribers or be computer literate to make a videoconference call to someone in New York. They only need to go to the PCNET videoconferencing centre after having made a reservation for a terminal first. ZF