Alex Kinch

Mobile messaging services provider TynTec has just launched a new service which will allow major telecoms carriers to route voice calls to mobile phones directly to their destination network operator.
The new service, called Voice Network Query, will overcome the issue of onward routing of voice calls to ported mobile numbers, thus reducing the issue of [...]

The SpinVox world domination plans continue, with the news that they’ve launched their rather useful voicemail-to-SMS service in South Africa.
The deal, with leading mobile network Vodacom, will be branded in the country as Voicemail2SMS.  “SpinVox is a powerful messaging service that saves customers time by eliminating the need to listen to traditional voicemail,” says Christina [...]

Avaya and Nokia today announced the next phase of their strategic collaboration with a solution that provides users of Nokia Eseries business devices with one number access and advanced enterprise telephony capabilities as they travel across private Wi-Fi and public mobile networks. With a single mobile device, workers can ‘handoff” phone calls at the click [...]

Link: SpinVox Inks Contract With Vodafone Network In Spain – Quick Facts
News just in.. Hot on the heels of their deal last week to bring voice-to-screen messaging to Canada, SpinVox has just announced it’s signed a deal with Vodafone Spain.
More details soon!

Voice to text provider SpinVox have signed a deal with mobile and landline operator SaskTel to bring their voicemail to SMS service to Canada.
Available on both the SaskTel cellular network and SaskTel’s wireline telephone network, Voice Mail to Text service automatically converts voicemail messages to text and sends the text message to the recipient for [...]

ROK Entertainment Group, the specialist mobile technology and applications developer, today announced ROK Talk, its new and wholly unique mobile conference-calling application, with an invitation for 500 people worldwide to join a BETA trial.
ROK Talk enables simple and affordable group calling, all managed directly from the user’s mobile phone. In just a few seconds, subscribers [...]

In possibly the least exciting re-brand of the year, UK premium regulator ICSTIS is changing it’s name to PhonepayPlus.
From 15th October 2007, the much loved/feared (depending on whether you’ve ever run premium services) ICSTIS name will disappear, to be replaced with the new “more accurate” branding.
According to ICSTIS, PhonepayPlus will give consumers a much better [...]

Link: O2 starts charging for calls to non-places | The Register
With the world and his wife now seemingly having a non-geo number (0845, 0870, 0800), it’s curious to hear that O2 have become the last UK mobile network to drop these numbers from customers inclusive minutes packages.
According to The Register, O2 customers who’ve signed up [...]

Link: Fueling the ‘Truemors’: SpinVox Voice Message Conversion System Powers Kawasaki’s Truemors.Com
Voice to text experts SpinVox have just announced a deal with Truemors.com, the news and social networking site.
The new system allows Truemors users to phone a number and leave their bit of gossip, news, rumours, and celeb sightings – with their message converted to [...]

I know Ewan has written quite a bit about Rebtel in the past, so no doubt he’ll be pleased to hear the news that they’ve just launched their own Facebook application.
Reb Me allows Facebook users to create local numbers for global friends across their Facebook network direct from the Facebook site. The application allows users [...]