Tag: voip

Hotspot@Home

To use the service just pop your T-Mobile SIM into the phone and connect to your WiFi network. If you’re using T-Mobile’s router, you have one button access to secure and encrypt the connection. That’s it. Once you have connected, your calls will be routed over WiFi and you’ll suddenly find your phone works in places of your home that it didn’t work before. Your talk time will still come out of your minutes plan however. But that’s not all. For an extra $9.99 a month (that’s an introductory rate but will be grandfathered in so you won’t see a rate increase over time) every call you make over WiFi (in the US) is now free.

timid. they are not cannibalizing themselves fast enough. guess someone else will do it for them.

Opening up Skype

The hack adds a button into Skype that adds TalQer VOIP functionality. Highlight a Skype contact, then click the button to call him or her via the TalkQer Voip service. TalQer has a couple of nice features that Skype doesn’t offer, particularly a free inbound phone number and voicemail. But it’s unclear if that’s going to be enough to convince large numbers of Skype users to add this additional bit of software.

the first parasites in the skype ecosystem

Anonymous Phone Numbers

Jangl provides an ID that users can give out to other people to create a VOIP number unique to a single relationship between 2 people. VOIP is used as the connection between any 2 phones, be they land lines, cell phones or VOIP calls.

multiple identities / identity intermediaries are starting to appear in the real world. this is how you deal with the ‘OMG teh internets have predators’

EuroTelcoblog

Reflections on developments within the European telecom sector, with an emphasis on disruptive influences and emerging business models.