Mobile VoIP

• Vonage Releases Less-Costly Mobile VoIP Competitor to Skype

  8 Feb 2012

  In what seems like an endless uphill battle with Microsoft’s Skype, Vonage has just taken steps that may help level the playing field a bit. The VoIP service provider has released Vonage Mobile, a new service for use with a couple of slick new mobile applications for the iPhone and Android smartphone platforms that the [...]

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• Qualcomm VoIP Chip Could Signal the End of Metered Cell Calls

  2 Feb 2012

  Engadget and others today picked up on an acronym and initialism-laden press release from chip-maker Qualcomm about the “first successful VoIP-over-LTE to WCDMA handoff.” Qualcomm’s marketing folks may not have put it in an easy-to-understand fashion, but they believe this is an important breakthrough. They are right. The problem is that nobody — not even [...]

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• VoIP Makes Sprint Most Innovative US Cell Carrier

  5 May 2011

  One argument competitive market and consumer advocates have stressed in opposing AT&T’s $39-billion bid to purchase T-Mobile in the United States is that the resulting GSM monopoly would stifle innovation in the cellular carrier industry. It turns out that the deal, which is still awaiting regulatory approval, may have been a key factor in one [...]

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• Smartphone Apps Make Calls Through OBi Devices

  2 Mar 2011

  Dozens of mobile applications for smartphones allow you to make calls from a mobile phone through a VoIP service provider. Some iPhone and Android apps can be configured to make calls through your own IP-capable PBX. But, there has been no way of making a smartphone call directly through a typical consumer-level VoIP analog telephone [...]

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