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by jeff goldman on January 23, 2010
Truphone has announced a new service called Local Anywhere that gives users access to local voice, data and text rates when traveling overseas.
"The service is made possible by a single 'sma...
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by James Koopmann on August 2, 2008
Not everyone is 100 percent VOIP aware. I came across two articles this week that might help the VOIP newbie. And if you think you know enough already, you just might want to browse them for a quick ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 18, 2008
I have to admit, I'm actually a bit confused by the Jajah's plan to provide services to small and medium businesses (SMBs) using their new SMB Solution Suite. The press release I got in email ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 16, 2008
I think the PR folks have added me to their email lists, as I seem to be getting a lot more emails lately. Like this one from i2Telecom, which is now offering MyGlobalTalk™, which places Internet tele...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 2, 2008
While Truphone used to have free calls to the PSTN until recently-but only for those who signed up at the beginning-new customers can get in on some free call action as well.
Well, ok, it's only ...
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by James Koopmann on June 20, 2008
Not only do users enjoy unlimited mobile calls between other users when connected to the Internet they can also have low rates for calling any fixed-line or moblie phone. With SIP-enabled phones, that...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 28, 2008
As another bay step on their plan towards world domination, Truphone has announced availability of their new 4.0 client for Nokia S60 devices, which allows you to make calls over WiFi or 3G at much le...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 25, 2008
I remember when I was kid that making a long distance call was a big deal. Why? Because it was expensive. Want an example? Here's an AT&T ad from 1984:
$10 an hour for a weekend or evening ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 4, 2008
Garrett Smith, one of the guys behind the success of VoIP Supply, has launched a side project called Mobile VoIP Review where users can rate, write reviews, and discuss voice over ip providers that ca...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 18, 2008
Last week during the eComm conference, I didn't go, but I did get to talk to Irv shapiro at IfByPhone about how they are making it dirt simple for small and medium businesses to add the power of v...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 9, 2008
Pingo is a typical prepaid calling service that uses VoIP to provide inexpensive calling to their customers. While this works great for individuals, this doesn't work quite as well for businesses ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on February 5, 2008
Luca Filigheddu recently came over to the U.S. and wanted to make cheap calls back to Italy from his prepaid mobile phone. He took the opportunity to compare several companies that would allow him to ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on February 4, 2008
It's been a while since I've looked at Mobivox, but given the historic rise of Skype is slowing down according to eBay's Q42007 quarterly report, one has to start looking for other ways fo...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 29, 2008
Over the weekend, I saw a blog posting by Marcelo Rodriguez at RingFree that lead me to believe they were shifting away from the idea of charging for their service. Sure enough, they confirmed they we...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 23, 2008
Gizmo5, a.k.a. Gizmo Project, a.k.a. SIPphone is launching a new program called Backdoor dialing. A little over 10% of all telephones in the U.S., both landlines and mobiles, are now connected via VoI...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 17, 2008
Private Phone, a service provided by netzero, has sent notice to their members that they are disconnecting service as of 19 February 2008. The service gave you a free inbound telephone number with voi...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 3, 2008
This is kind of old news by now, but the fine folks at Truphone have extended their offer for free calling to landlines in 40 countries, as well as mobiles in the US and Canada, until the end of Febru...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 2, 2008
When we usually talk about URLs, otherwise known as uniform resource locators, we are usually talk about websites. However, URLs are not exclusively about websites, they are used to locate any resourc...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 23, 2007
Jajah Direct is giving their users an hour of free calling between 24 December at midnight GMT and 25 December at 11:59pm GMT. That's almost two days to take advantage of this great offer. More de...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 18, 2007
This picture describing Rebtel's recent offer picture pretty much says it all here, but as usual, the fine print is what you need to read.
Rebtel assigns your international contacts a "loca...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 13, 2007
I have to give credit to Luca Filigheddu and his team at Abbeynet for continuing to do their part to bring the power of voip to more people.
Originally when Abbeynet's Mozilla VoIP Extensions cam...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 10, 2007
The problem with a lot of VoIP calling services is that they are not necessarily friendly to those who aren't tech savvy. You have to train them to do something differently they already know how...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 4, 2007
How can you get away with being in the US for a trade show, yet manage to only spend $4.16 on calls? alec Saunders chronicled his experience in doing so when he attended the VON conference in Boston. ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on November 19, 2007
My buddy Alec Saunders at iotum has an interesting giveaway: use iotum's Free Conference Call application on Facebook and participate in a conference call for 5+ minutes between now an 26 November...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on November 16, 2007
The problem with being a little upstart company like Cubic Telecom is that the big boys can simply cut off your blood supply if they're not happy with what you're doing.
Yak4Ever is a callin...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on October 30, 2007
One of the problems with the video over IP market is that it's basically cut into two parts: the ultra high-end dedicated systems that cost way too much money, or the consumer side. There wasn'...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on September 3, 2007
Free calls from your mobile phone is, usually, kind of a misnomer. No matter which side of the Atlantic or Pacific you're on, it costs money to make a phone call on your mobile phone. At least, of...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on August 17, 2007
With the Skype outages still affecting people, it's nice to see the competition step-up.
SightSpeed, the best video calling service out there, has decided to offer anyone who signs up for an acco...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on August 6, 2007
Sitofono is a rather unique product in the VoIP marketplace. It enables customers to click on a button on your website and they can connect with you. All a customer has to do is input their phone numb...
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by gautam on June 5, 2007
Are you looking for some more free voip calls? Here is another VoIP application from Betamax called 12VOIP which lets you enjoy free and unlimited VoIP calls to around fifty countries for three months...
