Alex Kinch

Nimbuzz, the new-generation mobile VoIP operator, has today announced the launch of NimbuzzOut, offering great value international calls at the lowest possible rates, to complement its multi award-winning mobile application offering free VoIP calls, SIP calls and social IM aggregation.
From today, NimbuzzOut Credits will be available for purchase at www.nimbuzzout.com, enabling users to save up [...]

Remember the ongoing saga of T-Mobile and their blocking of VoIP applications like Skype? Well there’s good news – they will be allowing VoIP traffic on their network.. but for a price.

American company TCM Mobile claimed recently to have built the world’s first totally VoIP-based cellular network – a story which we covered here. I caught up for a quick chat with company president Haim Yashar to find out more.

A press release just appeared in my inbox from a company called TCM Mobile – with a rather curious claim. They reckon they’ve built the first-ever ‘cellular phone service using VoIP’.
I’m not sure what to make of this to be honest, so while I try and figure out exactly what they’re trumpeting, here’s the press [...]

Research company Gartner has released a report predicting over half of mobile calls will be carried end-to-end using VoIP technology within the next 10 years – a statement which should strike fear into traditional mobile operators trying to save their existing share of the $692bn/year market for mobile voice calls.

Vopium, the leading international mobile communications company, today announces the launch of its free application on BlackBerry App World™. As the world’s first mobile VoIP application available on BlackBerry App World™, the launch cements Vopium’s commitment to offering consumers and businesses worldwide a free and heavily-discounted international communications service.

Vopium, the company that drives down the cost of international mobile phone calls has today been honoured with the 2009 European Mobile VoIP Technology Innovation Award by Frost & Sullivan. The award recognises Vopium’s dedication to innovation, its commitment to bringing new products to market and its excellence in technology-leveraged and customer-focused services.
The Frost & [...]

Both Truphone and Skype have iPhone clients now. Both claim to have ‘unlimited’ packages. So who should you go with? Putting narrowband-versus-wideband, open-versus-closed codecs, shiny websites and PR spin aside for a minute, let’s look at pricing and terms and conditions. For comparison, prices are in British Pounds and include VAT where applicable.

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Truphone [...]

Zer01, the curious ‘MVNO-but-not-an-MVNO’ mobile VOIP operator, officially launched it’s services at CTIA this week. Whilst we still don’t know a huge amount of info about the company and it’s promised services, CNET reporter Kent German managed to glean a bit more from CEO Benjamin Piilani.
For those of you curious about the technical aspects of [...]

Remember my post the other day about mobile-VOIP-over-data (and definitely not an MVNO, so they say) Zer01? I was hoping for something to come out of CTIA a little more concrete – perhaps even a demo I could talk about.
Alas, no. Whilst that hasn’t quite happened yet, they have set a launch date for their [...]