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20/07/2011 - Viber 3G VoIP Mobile App Coming to Android

Viber, a mobile application that offers users free phone calls and text messaging to other Viber users over 3G and Wi-Fi, announced the official launch of the Android version of the app, bringing Viber to millions of additional users. Viber also announced that it has acquired over 12 million active users (last 30 days) and has an impressive call traffic volume of over one billion minutes of calls per quarter.

13/12/2010 - Fring Launches Dynamic Video Quality Mobile Calling

fring announced the rollout of its network-optimized DVQ mobile video calling technology. The company’s proprietary DVQ (dynamic video quality) technology adjusts video bit rate and frame rate according to the specific device to match current network bandwidth during a call, delivering the best possible video picture quality for available bandwidth between call peers.

05/10/2010 - Skype Now Available for Android Phones

Skype has just announced the release of Skype for Android, a client for mobile handsets, built for smartphones running Android OS version 2.1 or above. In the US, Skype for Android calling works over WiFi only. Outside the US the app works over WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G).

18/08/2010 - Skype Now Available on Verizon Multimedia Phones on the BREW Platform

Skype is taking another step forward with Verizon and expanding the Skype mobile application onto a variety of Multimedia 3G phones with an app based on the BREW platform, including the LG enV TOUCH, LG Chocolate Touch and Samsung Reality.

16/08/2010 - Sonus Enables Cable Customers to Make and Receive Calls on Their Smartphone Using Their Home Phone Number

Sonus Networks has introduced a new solution for cable operators to add value to their existing home line services. Dubbed "Fixed – Smartphone Convergence," cable operators can use new capabilities in the company’s ASX Telephony Application Server to allow cable subscribers with home phone service to combine their existing phone line with up to five additional SIP-enabled devices including 3G/Wi-Fi enabled smartphones.

16/08/2010 - Dialogic offers trade-in deal for old video gateways

Dialogic, a multimedia and signal processing technology company, has launched its new Vision Plus video gateway program that will help service providers upgrade their offerings.

The new program offers service providers and solution developers a trade-in promo to replace deployed video gateways with a Dialogic Vision 1000 Video Gateway. Vision Plus participants will trade in their competing old video gateways for a Dialogic one. Companies can also purchase a reduced price lab bundle which includes free remote installation and remote training. The Vision 1000 Video Gateway's 3G-324M interoperability and real-time video transcoding offers users enhanced video quality for interactive mobile video services such as social networking, integrated video conferencing, video call completion to voice, video SMS or video voice mail, video surveillance, interactive voice and video response and video advertising.

"As mobile networks grow to support billions of subscribers worldwide, video services represent an exciting approach to generating new revenue streams. However, while this opportunity is significant, service providers can be faced with a changing vendor landscape that can make it difficult to choose the right technology partner," said Kevin Cook, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Dialogic Corporation in the release. "The Vision Plus Program helps reduce risks in deploying 3G-324M video gateway technologies and enables service providers to maintain--and grow--mobile video service revenues."

For more:
- read the release

09/08/2010 - Skype launches $100 million IPO

With its software on the verge of being integrated into every device that could handle it, it looks like it's time to cash in. According to GigaOM and an S-1 filling with the SEC, Skype is seeking to raise $100 million through an initial public offering (IPO).

Skype has been making waves lately with its various mobile applications, deals with carriers and the open API that will seek to see Skype embedded on toasters far and wide. Now we can add one more wave to this Skype sea of news with the filing of their IPO. GigaOM writes that while most figured this move was coming, the IPO does seem to have come a little sooner than expected. The IPO will be handled by Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and a few other financial firms. When the IPO is completed, the company will trade on NASDAQ.

For more:
- read the GigaOM article

04/08/2010 - Vonage Mobile App Provides Free Wi-Fi / 3G Calling For Facebook Users Worldwide

Vonage has just introduced the Vonage Mobile application for Facebook, a new service that allows users to make free mobile calls to all of their Facebook friends who have the app, anywhere in the world, directly from their friends list.

26/07/2010 - Free 3G Skype calling a play to buddy up with carriers?

Last week, Skype released the new version of its iPhone app which runs in the background making it possible to leave Skype on and use the service as your main way to receive calls on your mobile phone. As almost an aside, we related that Skype has decided to put its plans to charge for 3G calls on hold.

What's interesting is that the company noted this change in plans with some reasoning behind the move. The "mobile world is in a period of significant change" says Skype's blog. Indeed, the pricing models of our previous unlimited data buckets are changing and IP communications are being threatened by data caps and overage charges just like those old minute buckets of the early wireless world. With companies charging differently for data usage, Skype has pulled the plug on its plans to essential double charge its 3G callers.

One interesting take on this move came from The Register which posited that as Skype cozies up with operators, it might be in its interest to help carriers drive up data usage. It is possible that Skype use could be translated into carrier profits with users opting for bigger data buckets and this profit might one day take the form of making Skype money ala partnerships like the one they've already formed with Verizon. Skype's own blog post does say they are happy to keep 3G calling free because they are "delighted to make it easier for you to talk for even longer and do even more together using Skype." Doing more and talking longer on Skype means more data use to me. Perhaps 'no longer having plans to charge for 3G' means having plans to make money from those calls by other means.

For more:
- read the Skype blog post
- read the Register article

22/07/2010 - Skype for iPhone Now Supports Multitasking, No Charges for Calling Over 3G

In May, Skype upgraded their iPhone app to allow users to make calls over 3G data connections. Yesterday, the company introduced a new version of the app that now supports multitasking.

20/07/2010 - Nortel Patent Auction Benefits LTE Market

The decision by Nortel to sell its Long Term Evolution (LTE) patent portfolio could serve as a launch pad for companies planning to cash in on a market expected to undergo explosive growth in the coming years, according to iSuppli.

01/07/2010 - Ooma launches iPhone app

Ooma, the VoIP service and device provider, has added a new addition to its arsenal: the Ooma Mobile Application for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

The new offering not only allows Ooma customers to cut costs on their mobile plans by using Ooma's PureVoice Technology, but also make domestic and international calls from their mobile device over WiFi or 3G bypassing international calling rates and minute charges. An interesting thing to note is that Ooma's PureVoice Technology uses an advanced voice compression to reduce bandwidth usage by 60 percent which will go a long way at preserving customers' data buckets now that AT&T has thrown out the unlimited plans.

The app costs $9.99 and Ooma Mobile app calls start at 1.9 cents per minute in the U.S. and go up from there for international rates.

For more:
- read this release

22/06/2010 - ip.access & Kineto Complete Femtocell Interoperability Testing

ip.access and Kineto Wireless have announced successful interoperability testing between ip.access’ Oyster 3G femtocell Access Point and Kineto’s Multi-Service Access Gateway (MSA-GW). The testing was based on 3GPP’s Release 8 Iuh specification, which defines the standard interface between femtocell Access Points and the femtocell gateway.

18/06/2010 - CounterPath Brings Enterprise-Class VoIP Softphone to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

CounterPath has released the Bria iPhone Edition for Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Bria iPhone Edition is a VoIP softphone that works over both 3G and Wi-Fi networks.

17/06/2010 - Broadcom offers VoIP router with 3G support

Broadcom Corporation has revealed its new Intensi-fi XLR wireless LAN VoIP router system-on-a-chip platform. The new WLAN VoIP SOC solution includes new 3G wireless support.

Broadcom's offering is targetting consumers looking to run VoIP over their wireless router for cost savings. Paying just broadband costs and not a telephone bill, consumers can use the Broadcom WLAN to even upgrade their home calling with all the benefits of VoIP like mulitple lines, conference calling and caller ID.

By adding 3G functionality to the WLAN devices using an USB interface, users will be able to get broadband services in areas that don't have wireline Internet services. The 3G USB modem enables consumers to use their cellular network to create an instant WiFi hotspot for Internet and VoIP services.

For more:
- read the release

11/06/2010 - Juniper Research: Mobile VoIP Users to Exceed 100 Million by 2012

A new study from Juniper Research has found that Mobile VoIP services will develop significantly faster in developed markets due to the direct correlation between 3G roll outs and the take up of mobile VoIP.

03/06/2010 - The Skype renaissance in review

For this week's round up, I thought we'd look at Skype. In some ways, a round up is almost unnecessary since there has been so much Skype related news we could have just filled a newsletter with the stuff. We will spare you all of that.

It seems like only yesterday that Skype's founders and eBay were going toe-to-toe with lawsuits trying to cramp each other's style. After all the messy business was settled and new owners including some of Skype's original founders took over, Skype has been experiencing a sort of renaissance. Skype has been popping up a lot lately as it makes good on its promise to be a ubiquitous VoIP service. It said VoIP must go mobile and it has been plugging away on that front. It said it would be on your television and now even that has come to pass.

But as Skype gets bigger and more prevalent in the consumer space, it is interesting to see how it plans to further monetize its service. As noted this week, the iPhone 3G Skype App is actually just a free trial that by the end of the year will begin charging Skype-to-Skype callers for calls made over 3G. According to an article in the L.A. Times, it was at one point Skype's stance to never charge for their Skype-to-Skype calls, but it seems that as more users begin to value its service the company believes they might be willing to pay for it.

See all the most recent news from Skype in our news roundup here...

31/05/2010 - New iPhone app makes 3G Skype calls

Don't ask me how long this is going to last, but at the moment, Skype's newly released iPhone app can make calls over the 3G network. The 3G calls are available for users making Skype-to-Skype calls.

At the moment Skype-to-Skype calls over 3G are free, but the company hopes to charge for them by the end of the year. WiFi calls will remain free.

The new upgrade also includes a call quality indicator to let users know how well their 3G connection can handle their Skype call. When you think of user complaints about AT&T's iPhone 3G network already being too slow and crowded, my guess is the quality indicator will be delivering some bad news.

For more:
- read the article

31/05/2010 - Skype 2.0 Brings 3G Calling to the iPhone

A long after its competitors had brought 3G VoIP calling to the iPhone, Skype has finally announced the launch of the new version of its iPhone app that allows to make and receive Skype-to-Skype calls, and to call mobiles and landlines over 3G data connection.

21/05/2010 - Mobile VoIP Becomes a Threat to Tradicional Voice Revenues

Mobile VoIP is no longer just hype, but has become a credible threat to traditional voice revenues, says Frost & Sullivan. According to the research group, an ambitious group of mobile VoIP start-up companies are creating a paradigm shift in the way users communicate with each other, with voice services moving to a true internet era of Telco 2.0.

18/02/2010 - Skype CEO: iPhone VoIP over 3G 'soon'

Hot off the announcement of its Verizon partnership, Skype didn't want to leave AT&T and the iPhone out. Om Malik over at GigaOm was able to corner Skype's CEO Josh Silverman and ask him about the VoIP over 3G Skype app and the answer was that it would be coming very soon. What does that mean? 'Soon' truly is anyone's guess, but Malik thinks it will be Q2 of 2010.

Skype claims to be fine tuning the 3G version of its popular iPhone app, and has yet to release it despite AT&T and Apple opening up the restrictions on VoIP over 3G on their network. One thing to keep in mind is probably the concern Skype has about quality of service. Already on record saying that the AT&T 3G network is strapped in major iPhone user areas, I am sure they are worried about how well their app will work over 3G once it goes live. Skype's latest tactic of teaming up with Verizon to send Skype calls over the voice network and the rest of the data over 3G is telling. Perhaps a similar deal will emerge for the iPhone?

For more:
- read GigaOm's story

05/02/2010 - 8x8 Announces Voice over 3G Update to its iPhone App

8x8 announced that an update to its Virtual Office Mobile application which supports business voice services over 3G is now available in the Apple iTunes app store for iPhone and iPod Touch models.

03/02/2010 - More and More iPhone Apps Support VoIP over 3G

It came out of nothing. Releasing a new version of iPhone SDK last week (along with the reveal of the iPad) Apple lifted 3G VoIP restrictions on the iPhone. Since then VoIP calls are not only available over Wi-Fi but also over cellular networks and more and more companies announces that their apps are now 3G friendly.

01/02/2010 - 3G Enterprise VoIP comes to the iPhone

Sure last week iCall was the first out of the gates to have VoIP calling over 3G on the iPhone, but the product isn't quite what businesses are looking for to extend to their mobile workforce. Enter Agito with the latest update to their RoamAnywhere platform. Enterprise VoIP over 3G is here.

RoamAnywhere is a mobile UC product with high availability, redundancy, security, enterprise scalability, and the company claims it has some of the broadest IP-PBX and mobile handset support around. In addition to the iPhone, the product is compatible with some Blackberry and Nokia devices as well, which should be welcome news to most companies who prefer Blackberry as an enterprise device.

The solution reduces the costs of international direct dialing, roaming and hidden overage charges and can move mobile calls away from WiFi coverage to 3G cellular data networks which are paid as a flat rate rather than with voice minutes. The service also uses an automatic SSL-based Secure Remote Voice capability that requires no third-party VPN solution to secure the VoIP over 3G calls.

For more:
- read this release

28/01/2010 - Apple approves VoIP over 3G app, finally

True mobile VoIP on the iPhone has been a long time coming. A few months ago we were awash in announcements from various software-based VoIP vendors that they had VoIP apps for the iPhone only to find that those apps worked over WiFi and nothing else. Well, that may be changing ASAP.

In fact, there is already an iPhone app in the iTunes App Store ready for you to download and try out called iCall. The app's page explains the new functionality: "3G 3G 3G 3G! You can now use iCall over 3G networks!!!"--which I think shows the excitement is both on the user and developer side. Initial reviews say the app works great.

The shift to allow 3G VoIP came yesterday with the Apple iPad announcement (which presumably has this VoIP functionality as well) and the release of a new version of the iPhone SDK. The new SDK has made the new cellular network access features available to developers and it will be only a matter of time before we see Skype, Vonage, 8x8, Truphone and the rest of the gang launching VoIP apps (and presumably crashing AT&T's 3G network.)

For more:
- read this ZDNet article
- check out the iCall app in the App Store