Last month I wrote about a new mobile VoIP service, DeFi. I’ve been using DeFi for a couple of weeks now, initially on my Nokia E65 and now on my E51, and it’s proving to be an excellent mobile VoIP service, both in terms of call quality and functionality. As with any VoIP service the [...]
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Geraldine Wilson swaps Yahoo for Truphone; becomes CEO
Tricia over at mocoNews reports — briefly — that Geraldine Wilson has taken up the position of CEO over at Truphone. I trust that she also brings a few hundred million dollars with her. Geraldine previously headed up biz and marketing strategy for Yahoo’s mobile section (“Connected Life”). Every success Geraldine!
3 and Skype
The Sunday Times picked up the story that 3 is planning to add SkypeOut to their Skypephone package, on top of the existing Skype to Skype and Skype Chat offering. However, buried away in the detail, I noticed that SkypeOut is only supported for international calls. Calls to UK destinations can only be made via [...]
Review: Teleware PMN Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)
If you’re a true telecoms geek (and lets face it, if you’re reading MIR, you’re well on your way) then you’ve thought, nay dreamed, about having your own private mobile network. Even for the non-techies amongst us (I’ve been told there are some), the allure of not having to pay any money to the Vodafones [...]
Google’s wireless vision
Interesting to read about Google’s wireless vision. They see an open wireless future where your mobile device or smartphone will use the best available wireless connection, based on a combination of price and availability. Devices will no longer be tethered to one network. This would include 3G, GSM, WiFi, WIMAX, LTE and anything else that [...]
Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – DeFi Mobile launches Global Access
Yesterday I met with Jeff Rice the CEO of DeFi Mobile to discuss the launch of DeFi Global Access. DeFi offers carrier grade VoIP via your mobile handset with flat rate subscription pricing. What really struck me about DeFi is that in a single service it addresses a number of the gaps in existing VoIP [...]
Rebtel & O2 Germany
In my post last Thursday I commented on Rebtel’s dispute with O2 Germany over access to Rebtel numbers. Rebtel has just announced that O2 is no longer blocking these numbers. There’s no detail in the annoucement as to how this was resolved but it would seem that common sense prevailed. This is great news for [...]
Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – Championing consumer choice and value
O2 Germany’s recent move to block Rebtel’s access numbers looks like yet another attempt by the big operators to preserve ‘their world’ at the expense of competition and customer choice. Other recent examples include Truphone’s interconnect issues, disabled VoIP clients on operator branded Nokia handsets and specific 07 number ranges excluded from call bundles. It [...]
Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – Devicescape on your mobile
I’ve been using Devicescape for a while now on my Nokia E51 and it dramatically improves the WiFi user experience. So what is Devicescape? It’s a free application that runs on your mobile device and automatically logs you in to WiFi networks without the need to enter ID and security credentials each time. This includes [...]
Carriers still running scared of FMC
Aside from BT’s ongoing Fusion efforts, carriers are still sceptical about fixed-mobile convergence, according to analyst In-Stat, and still fear the technology could cannibalise their existing revenues. In spite of all that, it appears that FMC really is seeing some take-up – In Stat says 20 percent of businesses with wi-fi use it for voice [...]
Fring opens up for developers
Good news for fans of Fring: the mobile VoIP company has released its APIs, meaning developers out there can build whatever web apps to interact with the Fring client, and take advantage of all the usual Fring functionality: presence, talk, chat, file transfer, auto-roaming and all the rest. Opening up APIs is usually one of [...]
Rebtel and easyMobile ink mobile VoIP deal
VoIP company Rebtel has inked an agreement with easyGroup to resell its mobile VoIP service through easyMobile’s website. By signing up with Rebtel via easyMobile, users will be able to make cheap international calls over mobile VoIP using “any mobile phone, over any UK network”, according to the companies. Those signing up will pay for [...]
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