LOSE THE COST, NOT THE QUALITY WITH NOKIA VOIP TELEPHONY
No one needs to be reminded of how expensive it is to maintain our cell phones and cellular coverage. Like all of our day-to-day expenses cell phone bills keep inching up and up. The good news is, there is something you can do about it. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) can help you reduce your traditional cellular talk time and in turn lower your overall cost.
T-Mobile gets VoIP right
Details are starting to emerge on T-Mobile’s new VoIP service that lets customers switch over to Wi-Fi when the T-Mobile signal is no longer strong enough to take a call. T-Mobile explains it like this:
Wi-Fi Calling for Android is built upon the same technology as UMA, but is a different implementation from our past offerings. While T-Mobile’s current Wi-Fi Calling solution which operates on BlackBerry smartphones, for instance, seamlessly hands off calls from T-Mobile’s network to Wi-Fi networks, Wi-Fi Calling for Android does not.
A pre-installed application from T-Mobile will allow customers to make and receive voice calls and SMS over an accessible Wi-Fi connection. This provides customers with better indoor coverage and in some cases may provide the ability to make voice calls in locations where they weren’t able to do so previously.
For consumers, Wi-Fi Calling for Android increases coverage and uses voice minutes. [NOTE: calls originate on Wi-Fi, but are carried across T-Mobile's network once beyond the initial Wi-Fi connection.] T-Mobile also has plans for business which can help defer wireless minutes and provide cost savings.
Wi-Fi Calling will be available on the new T-Mobile myTouch, Motorola DEFY and others Android phones in the coming weeks. We are planning to expand Wi-Fi Calling for Android to as broad a selection of Android smartphones in our line-up as possible. Éclair (2.0/2.1) and Froyo (2.2) are the Android OS versions that currently support the application.
Competing carriers like AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ) and Sprint (S) use something called a Femto or Micro Cell. That’s a product that usually costs $100 or so (though carriers are known to give them away free to louder customers). These devices create “mini cell towers” in your home to reach the areas where the carrier’s real towers can’t. This is a proprietary technology and isn’t compatible with other devices.
T-Mobile prepping VoIP service?
T-Mobile may be extending its Hotspot@Home service to offer voice over IP for fixed-line users.
iPhone VoIP Apps: The Top Softphones For iPhone
For the average user the tariffs for iPhone usage, specifically in relation to voice calls, are more than enough to suffice. However, even several hundred minutes included for free per month aren’t enough for some users. And if you are a globetrotter making a lot of long distance and international calls then you’ll know just how costly a call home can be. So what do you do about?
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January 4, 2011 by admin
Filed under Origination
When the Commission was considering whether to recommend to the government the regulation of voice call termination rates charged by mobile operators, it was suggested by some industry parties that the Commission should, in the course of that investigation, also investigate the merits of recommending regulation of voice call origination rates charged by mobile operators, where that origination service is used in the supply of toll-free services.
On 29 November 2004, the Commission made a decision that it was not satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for a full investigation into mobile origination rates.
Commercial Applications
Internet Access Where & When You Need It
Many times you may need to provide Internet access for a group of employees at a temporary location. Don’t wait for or pay for communications lines to be installed — get your employees connected to the Internet within minutes.
Mobile termination rates are the wholesale prices mobile phone companies charge for terminating calls or texts from other fixed or mobile networks.
January 4, 2011 by admin
Filed under Termination
In November 2008 the Commerce Commission commenced its investigation into whether the mobile termination access services should be regulated, due to concerns that a combination of mobile termination rates that are significantly above cost, with significant on-net discounting, creates a barrier to competition in the mobile market. The Commission’s investigation did not look at the prices that consumers directly pay for mobile services.
Bria Android Edition
Bria Android Edition is a highly secure, standards-based mobile VoIP softphone that works over both 3G and Wi-Fi networks.
PC-to-Phone/Fax Calls over Internet
January 4, 2011 by admin
Filed under PC to Phone
You can call regular phone/fax numbers from your Internet connection if you place your calls through a PC-Telephone gateway.