DeFi Mobile, a mobile communications company that provides a global IP platform for mobile applications and services, has launched their newest service, DeFi Global Access which allows users to access a subscription-based service enabling its members to make and receive unlimited phone calls worldwide via WiFi access to DeFi Mobile’s carrier-grade, global IP network for […]

When it looked like Nokia had turned it’s back on VoIP, mobile VoIP providers didn’t turn their backs on Nokia. At least fring hasn’t.
Fresh off the news that the Nokia N96 and N78 were not going to have the native Nokia SIP client, fring has announced support for the fring application on the N96 and […]

I thought I had said something about the need for mobile VoIP providers to diversify themselves…
How ironic.
Less than three hours after my interview with Michael Morisy went live in which I preached the need for mobile VoIP service to diversify beyond cheap minutes, TechCrunch posted that iSkoot, the company that allows you to make Skype […]

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 […]

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 […]

San Francisco based sipgate inc launched a Mobile VoIP application for the iPhone. I wrote more about the application here, however, I am not big on the application since it requires ones iPhone to be “jailbroke” in order for the application to be installed.
Thilo Salmon, CEO of sipgate is enthusiastic about his new service. “We […]