The group's principal activity is to provide integrated voice over Internet protocol (voip) telephony services. Internet protocol telephony is the real time transmission of voice communications in the form of digitized packets of information over the public Internet or a private network, similar to the way in which e-mail and other data is transmitted. The group's business includes: the transmission of voice and data traffic for communications carriers; the provision of enhanced Web-based and other communications services to individual consumers, under the iconnecthere brand name; the provision of a total hosted communications solution and the transmission of voice and data traffic for communications carriers. The operations are carried on in the United States, Europe, Argentina, the Far East and other countries.