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Ufone Background Music Service
Ufone Background music lets you play music and sound effects in the background of your call. You can play your favorite song in the background, or the sound of the beach, a market place and many more. So stop making those boring calls and personalize your conversations by playing music that matches the mood in... »
Wireless Service Teledensity Increases Upto 1.7% In Nov-09
The teledensity of wireless telephony services has registered a slight increase of 0.1 percent in the country after a period of six months. It reached to 1.7 percent by end of November 2009, latest statistic of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) showed on Friday. The overall Wireless Local Loop (WLL) connections increased to 2.72 million... »
Mojocall.com Mojocall offers free international calls to 60 countries
Welcome to 2010. Like 2009, VOIP will continue to overtake PSTN in every part of the world and Free International Calls will continue to make users happy. Today we look at Mojocall.com, a service by… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide. Related Topics: call, calls, countries,... »
Top Stories of 2009: Google gets serious about VoIP
In some ways, the story of Google getting into VoIP isn’t quite finished. The moves the Internet company has made are intriguing, but we haven’t seen their end product yet. The roots of Google’s VoIP play began in 2007 when it acquired Grand Central, a Unified Communicaitons (UC) company. When the acquisition was completed, Grand Central... »
Skype for SIP now open Beta
More SIP news this week–Skype for SIP, which until now has been in a closed Beta for only certain businesses since March, is now open to anyone who wants to try it out. According to Skype Journal, anyone with a business control panel, a corporate Skype name subject to the business terms of service, and... »
Bolo, Another VoIP Player, Enters Unlimited Global Calling Arena
Bolo from bolostore.com contacted me about their VoIP offering. Bolo explained, “We offer unlimited global calling for $38/month. That is unlimited calling to landlines and cellphones around the world. That is $38.00. We do not add fees and taxes.” Bolo added, “We have set up a store on Amazon (www.BoloStore.com) and we are signing... »
PhonePower.com Phone Power VOIP Phone Service now offers Free International Calls
If you are looking for a VOIP Phone Provider or currently using PhonePower as your home phone service, there is a good news for you. Yesterday, PhonePower representatives confirmed that Phone Power… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide. … >>> Rest of the Story Related Topics: call,... »
GoogleVoice has 1.4M users; reveals partner companies
Whoops! According to BusinessWeek, Google accidentally revealed its user numbers in filings to U.S. regulators. Although later redacted from the documents, BusinessWeek was quick on the draw and managed to get ahold of the originals before the ‘less informative’ documents replaced those originally made available to the public. According to the letter to regulators, GoogleVoice... »
Xorcom, Broadvox Asterisk-based IP PBX and SIP trunking certified interoperable
Xorcom, an Asterisk based IP PBX provider, and Broadvox, a VoIP solutions provider, announced that their Asterisk-based IP PBX and SIP trunking services respectively have been certified as interoperable. Xorcom’s devices allow communication using both VoIP and legacy telephony while Broadvox’s SIP trunking enables the use of bandwidth for voice and data apps while lowering... »
azabutel.com Azabu Tel offers free international calls from Japan
Its been a while since we found a new access number based free international call VOIP service provider. India LD has launched a new access number based service in Japan which lets you make free… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide. … >>> Rest of... »
European Union Plan Could Lead to Lower Cost International Calls
The European Commission will urge the 27 European Union countries Wednesday to reserve a uniform slice of broadcast spectrum for a pan-European mobile broadband network, one that could enable flat-rate, international voice and data calling plans. A copy of the proposal, reviewed by the International Herald Tribune, sets out technical guidelines for E.U. countries that... »
Speakeasy looks for a piece of iPhone action
Speakeasy, a Seattle-based VoIP company that took a tip from Google Voice and warned of blocking numbers on its VoIP service, is now taking a tip from Skype and Vonage with their recent mobile plays. Of course, they’ve put their own interesting spin on it as well. To wit, Speakeasy has launched an iPhone application... »
Apple Approves Another VoIP App, Rebtel
I just learned that Apple has approved yet another VoIP application, this time from Stockholm-based company Rebtel. You can download it from the iTunes Store. The service also works over AT&T’s 3G network, making it less necessary to have a Wi-Fi connection. But in my experience, WiFi-based calling is always better. AT&T announced earlier... »
Agito’s Mobility Router puts mobile VoIP over WiFi on Samsung smartphones
Previously available to Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile phones, Agito has extended its Mobility Router software to Samsung smartphones. The software allows users to make low cost international calls over the enterprise’s VoIP network using WiFi on their Samsung handsets. Article Related Topics: call, calls, handset, Info, information, international, International calls, LEC, Mobile, mobile VoIP,... »
A Waste Of Money, Time and Words
I have to laugh when I read that the FCC is investigating Google over not terminating calls somewhere that costs more money and where the reciprocal compensation model isn’t really “reciprocal.” To me, it’s a big waste of the money the FCC has to do far better things with, like working to get broadband... »
AT&T Grants Us Mobile VoIP Freedom
On September 17th I wrote about how siphon, a SIP app for the iPhone was working over 3G for me in Los Angeles but not in Connecticut. Apparently, port 5060, the SIP port was blocked in Connecticut but not in Los Angeles. Sources have informed me that AT&T was trialing opening up port... »
Tiscali Launches WiPhone, A Wi-Fi Mobile Telephony Service
I knew this was going to happen and I’m happy to see that Tiscali finally launched WiPhone, their new innovative offering for mobile users. In a nutshell, WiPhone is a service that lets customers call for free any italian landline from Wifi areas as well as send SMS and update your Twitter or Facebook status... »
freecall2india.com offers free international calls to india
Access number based VOIP services were popular a while back but then Iowa Access number services faced legal hassles forcing most VOIP access number services to go out of business. If you remember,… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide. … >>> Rest of the Story Related Topics:... »
budgetsip.fr offers cheap VOIP International Calls
Today we looked at Voiplip a new betamax VOIP service under Dellmont Sarl VOIP business and it seems they are on the roll with new VOIP services like budgetsip.fr. budgetsip.fr looks like a… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide. … >>> Rest of the Story Related Topics: 3g,... »
Cheap International Calls to Nigeria using VOIP
African countries have always been extremely costly destinations to make calls. No reforms and government regulations has always made VOIP penetration difficult. However, now many VOIP Providers are… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide. … >>> Rest of the Story Related Topics: Africa, call, calls, countries, government,... »
Free VOIP International Calls from Australia
Access number based VOIP services are on the rise everywhere in the world. Australia is also not new to this new VOIP medium. We have already used VOIP services like Aussiecall in the past. Today,… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide. … >>> Rest of the... »
Unlimited Free International Calls to India and many countries
This is huge. You can now make unlimited free calls to india (Landline +Mobile) and more countries such as USA, Canada, Thailand and Russia. This is VOIP Guide exclusive news, don’t miss it! You are… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide. … >>> Rest of the Story Related... »
Skype: Turning Phone Numbers into Paid Ads
Erick Schonfeld submits: While eBay prepares to unload Skype via a sale or IPO next year, it is busy looking for new ways to make money off its 405 million global users. They already account for an estimated 8 percent of international calls, and many of them are increasingly paying for SkypeOut calls... »
GVDialer for Google Voice
GVdialer is an intriguing mobile application for Google Voice, supporting iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Microsoft, and Symbian. GVdialer enables you to use Google Voice with your mobile phone while enabling some cool features. For instance, you can present your Google number as your Caller ID on outgoing mobile calls, thus keeping your mobile number... »
Why A Local Number is Important
To me, local telephone numbers in different countries have become important. With the local numbers, the managing of my calls, being reachable to my friends and business colleagues in different countries has been made easier. What's more, the concept of always being a local or as Truphone's CEO Geraldine Wilson likes to say in... »
OpenSky vs. SkypeforSIP – It’s On Baby!
It’s on! It’s Gizmo5’s OpenSky vs. Skype. Michael Robertson, the CEO of Gizmo5 has a post up where he compares Gizmo5’s OpenSky to Skype’s SkypeforSIP. It’s interesting how Michael talks about open standards, mentioning .mp3, a standard which Michael was a proponent of when he ran MP3.com and then backslaps Skype upside the head... »
Google Voice: Much ado about nothing
It’s hard to get excited about Google Voice. I’m not so sure anyone should until the company starts putting stats on the table about the number of customers and revenues the project brings in. The facts, as we know them, are as follows: In July 2007, Google paid $50 million for GrandCentral. One of the few blog... »
Google Voice – The return of GrandCentral
After many, many moons of silence, Google Voice has been rolled out as a “preview.” The born-again GrandCentral service first will be available to existing GrandCentral users, with others being able to sign up “soon.” Google bought GrandCentral back in July 2007, where upon the hosted mobile UC solution fell into a black hole, with... »
Grand Central Is Now Google Voice
Last night a very tired, yet happy Craig Walker called with news. For all those of little faith who had given up on GrandCentral, all I can say is "Surprise." What has been in the works for more than a year, has now come to fruition. GrandCentral has become Google Voice, and there are a... »
GrandCentral Reborn as Google Voice Suite of VoIP Services
GrandCentral, a “one number for life” service provider acquired by Google in July 2007 is being reborn as Google Voice, a comprehensive service that is essentially a Microsoft Office-type suite of communications-related services. I say that because the new service is a collection of VoIP-related features that one can typically get from different startups.... »