On Friday, fring, the mobile internet service and community that allows users to access and interact with a variety of communication services such as Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM® announced the availability of the fring iPhone application.
The offical fring for iPhone application allows iPhone users to access the services […]

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 […]

A simple phone number.
Everyone’s has one; some of us have more then one.
But for most consumers, their phone number is attached to their phone; one number, one device. Those of us in the IP telephony space know that “one number, one device” is not mutually exclusive when it comes to voice. With IP, one can […]

I always had a thing for history when I was growing up.
Whether it was the fact that I was great at memorizing countless pointless facts or that I wanted to be the one who, “didn’t let history repeat itself” I am not sure, but one thing that will always stick in my mind is something […]

Is the Virtual Mobile VoIP Service Provider (VMVoIP) the future of Mobile VoIP?
Pal and fellow VoIP blogger, Luca Filigheddu seems to think so.
“One of the trends I’m observing is how those services are leveraging their existing infrastructure, investments and developments by offering a white label solution to big companies which want to up-sell new innovative […]

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 […]

Hatter’s step on up. That’s right hate on me.
I was wrong.
Well, not completely wrong. I mean I still think Nokia felt pressure from carriers and the removal of the VoIP from two of it’s newer models, but I was wrong in not considering the fact that Nokia is the king of mobile VoIP before declaring […]

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 […]