peoplefone celebrates its 20th anniversary
Last Thursday, peoplefone celebrated its 20th anniversary together with customers and partners at ETH Zurich. The VoIP pioneer has developed from a start-up to an international telephony provider within two decades. New, promising products, consistent further development of its own communication services and the integration of AI into telephony allow the company to look to the future with confidence.
Together with around 70 partners, customers and its employees, peoplefone celebrated its 20th anniversary on September 11 at ETH Zurich. The choice of location was no coincidence, as the telecommunications company has been sponsoring the "Best BSc Thesis Award" since 2023, which is presented to three outstanding Bachelor students from the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET) at ETH Zurich.
The highlight of the evening was the presentation of this year's peoplefone awards. Teleinformatik Services AG from Zurich was named Key Partner of the Year 2025 and Centrovis GmbH received the Longterm Cooperation Award 2025. At the start of the anniversary event, company founder Christophe Beaud addressed the numerous guests: "Although it's already been 20 years, it feels like we only founded peoplefone two years ago - the start-up spirit is still palpable. In the future, we will continue on the path we have taken with new technologies and promising innovations and will drive peoplefone forward with our team. Artificial intelligence will play a key role in this."
The step towards becoming an international full solution provider
Over the past twenty years, peoplefone has always had the right instinct for successful technological developments. In 2009, for example, the company launched the first Swiss VoIP app, which made it known throughout Switzerland. This was followed in 2012 by peoplefone HOSTED, the company's first own cloud telephone system. In 2017, peoplefone recognized that telephony and video calls belong together and was one of the first Swiss providers to offer telephony integration in Microsoft Teams.
Just one year after its foundation, peoplefone opened a location in Austria. Further branches were quickly added: Poland (2007), Slovakia (2008), Lithuania (2012), Germany (2015) and France (2019). At the same time, peoplefone developed into a full-service provider for corporate customers - initially as an internet provider, then with a data SIM offering and since 2024 also as a mobile provider.
Equipped for the future
Among other things, peoplefone invests in start-ups that focus on the future of communication. Artificial intelligence plays a key role here and is gradually being integrated into the current telephony solutions. At the beginning of 2025, peoplefone STUDIO was launched, an AI-based tool for video presentations. With peoplefone HOLO, another future-proof project is in the pipeline that will make the virtual meeting room a reality.
Protecting the telephone infrastructure from cyber attacks has been a top priority at peoplefone from the very beginning. The data of Swiss customers has always been stored exclusively in Switzerland. With its technical infrastructure, state-of-the-art protection systems, anti-hacking algorithms and redundant data center structure, peoplefone has the right basis to meet the strict EU NIS2 guidelines in the area of cybersecurity.
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