Tag archive for ‘truphone’
SIM4travel offers United Mobile Customers a Way Forward
SIM4travel, a Truphone company and the leading supplier of global travel SIM cards, is offering United Mobile customers affected by the termination of the United Mobile service a free SIM4travel SIM with free £5 credit when they top-up £10.
United Mobile – is the end nigh for travel SIMs?
It’s been an interesting few weeks in the world of travel SIM providers. If rumours are to be believed, United Mobile – one of the biggest (and longest established) providers of travel SIMs is in the throws of death – and already some of it’s competitors are trying to pick at the bones.
Skype vs Truphone – the simple iPhone test
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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Skype for BlackBerry isn’t actually VOIP
When is a Skype VOIP client not a VOIP client? When it’s running on the BlackBerry.
Amongst all the fuss about the new Skype software for the BlackBerry (and of course the iPhone), BlackBerry guru Hayden at PinStack has discovered that the software is merely a front for call-through service. When you place a call to [...]
Truphone unveil flat rate calling plans
Mobile VOIP provider Truphone have today unveiled new flat rate unlimited calling plan tariffs. A tenner a month gets you unlimited calls to landlines in 38 countries, and £25 a month allows you to call both mobiles and landlines in 64 countries.
Rather confusingly, the £10/month landline tariff also includes calls to mobiles in the USA, [...]
Official Skype iPhone client could be here within days
Skype for iPhone to Be Released as Early as Next Week.
Om Malik claims he has information from ‘a tipster – a reliable one’ that Skype are about to announce an official client for the iPhone. It could come as early as next week – perhaps at CTIA in Las Vegas, that starts on Wednesday.
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“It’s been a long time..
.. I shouldn’t have left you, without a strong rhyme to step to”
So said rapper Rakim on his collaboration with Eric B on 1987’s Hip-Hop anthem ‘I Know You Got Soul’*. And indeed, it has been a long time since I regularly wrote a blog. So where have you been, I hear you ask?
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