After a long dry spell, it seems that the Mobile VoIP industry is finally heating up. In the last week there has been more Mobile VoIP news then there was in the last three or four months. With this is in mind, I am going to be regular posting, a few times a week. In […]

Shortly after  Truphone announced the availability of their iPhone application, Packet8 announced the availability of thier Mobile VoIP application on the iPhone through their MobileTalk service. Although iPhone users can now utilize the MobileTalk service, it is not an actual software application like that of Truphone; it is a web based interface, which means you […]

Add in one part Truphone, one part 3G iPhone and one part mobile VoIP and you have the recipe for the iPhone’s first official Mobile VoIP application.
Leading Mobile VoIP and UK based Truphone announced today that their Mobile VoIP application for the iPhone is now available for download through Apple’s iPhone application store. This […]

Wow.
The dollars are continuing to flow into the mobile VoIP space.
Today, Mobile VoIP service provider Nimbuzz has raised a $15 million second round of funding lead by Naspers/MIH and Mangrove Capital Partners. In 2007, Nimbuzz raised a $10 million first round of founding lead by Mangrove. According to Nimbuzz Founder and CEO Evert Jaap Lugt,
“We […]

A thought occurred to me this morning while I was sipping on some coffee and reading an article on Google Android in the latest copy of Wired.
“When will cellphones become just another PC.”
At first glance, you might think the idea of the cellphone as a PC is crazy; but hear me out.
Let’s start with the […]

I ran across this week old article from Brough Turner about the tipping point for Mobile VoIP being 2009 - 2010. I couldn’t agree more and Brough hit’s the nail on the head when he states,
Significant transitions involve years of incubation and then a tipping point. Mobile VoIP, or more broadly mobile IP communications, is […]

Singapore based MediaRing this week released their Mobile VoIP service, MediaRing Mobile VoIP. For those of you who might not be familiar with MediaRing, they are the leading VoIP provider in Asia…I guess you could call them the “Vonage” of Asia. This VoWiFi based service is currently only available for Nokia E and N Series […]

Earlier today Mobile VoIP provider fring announced the availability of their API to third party developers. fringAPI allows anyone with programming skills the ability to develop applications using the fring core network and mobile client. Although fringAPI is currently only available for the Symbian S60 9.2 OS version of fring, the open up of their […]

MOBIVOX announced today that Peter Diedrich has been brought on as CEO, replacing founding CEO Stephan Marceau. It is typically not a good thing when a founding CEO leaves a company (it usually means an investor force out or the company is going under), however Diedrich has more than 20 years of operations experience in […]

Every consumer loves free.
The Mobile VoIP industry was founded on and grounded in free.
However the very premise on which the industry was founded may also be it’s downfall.
Like it’s big brother, fixed line VoIP, the Mobile VoIP industry, once in a race to zero, is now litter with dozen of comapnies all figuring out how […]