VTSL executives Robert and David Walton recently participated in the Gamma Charity Mountain Bike Challenge supporting Rays of Sunshine and Samaritans. The event was held at Forest Centre, Cannock Chase and consisted of a two-day mountain biking competition and auction dinner. Cannock Chase is an enclosed forest with a permanent mountain bike area, with many trails and tracks, as well as some great views and scenery. Last year Robert and David placed, however this year Robert got lost on the trail and they didn’t do quite as well!

Some may think that children no longer want to take after their parents professionally, especially given the new career opportunities technology has created in recent years. However Dan Wilson, VTSL's Chief Technical Officer, not only decided to become the next generation of telecoms experts in his family, but pursue the next generation of telecoms technology itself. Dan learned about technical things at a young age, playing with everything from fax machines to telephones to computers long before most kids had every laid eyes on such devices. That childhood passion developed into valuable professional expertise that VTSL has relied on since its inception. Now with a child of his own, we can only wonder what the next generation of Wilsons will bring the telecoms industry (and what equipment Dan's son has been dissecting in much the same way his father did!). Below Dan answers a few questions for us, in VTSL's second employee spotlight interview.
 

On a cool spring morning last month, Joe Saunders walked through the doors of VTSL as the company’s first ever apprentice. “We are really excited about hiring apprentices, and couldn’t be happier Joe is on board. He has already displayed exceptional IT know-how, a great attitude and an aptitude for learning our business,” said Robert Walton, CEO of the London-based hosted business phone service provider.

Starting in June 2015, Ofcom will be making changes to non-geographic calling services (NGCS).

The biannual upgrade to the VTSL cloud-based telephony platform is now live for spring 2015. With it comes new features and increased capabilities for our VoIP phone system users. Our favourite new feature is 10 way conferencing. Now with just a push of the 'Conf' button on your phone, you are able to conference up to nine people (in addition to yourself) instead of two as was previously the case.

Malik came to the UK at 16 from Pakistan, not speaking English. Now he is Technical Director at VTSL and our number one go-to person for virtually any problem, in any language. What usually strikes people most when they first meet Malik is his vast amount of knowledge on everything from astrophysics, to VoIP, to Chinese food, and his limitless enthusiasm for life. Neeedless to say, Malik is not your average guy. In the first of our Employee Spotlight Interviews, we ask Malik a few questions about his favourite things.

VTSL is proud to announce our support of the charity, Stand Up Speak Out, with pro-bono phones and our hosted VoIP telephony service. The UK charity, founded by Joe Plumb, provides help and support to victims of bullying around the world.

ITSPA has chosen VTSL as a finalist for the Best Business ITSP Award! ITSPA’s Best Business ITSP Award goes to the VoIP company which has provided the best all-around voice service. Given the strict criteria, including a test of the VTSL service by Malden Electronics, we are very pleased to be short listed for this prestigious industry award.

VTSL is proud to announce our entry into several prestigious industry awards this year. We entered three categories in the ITSPA awards including Best Business ITSP (Small Enterprise), Best Business ITSP (Medium Enterprise) and Best VoIP Innovation.

VTSL is proud to announce two new additions to its growing team. Clair Watts and Tom Maliackan have both joined VTSL recently in support roles to ensure VTSL continues to offer first-rate service as a leading IP phone system provider.