Miscellany From The Inbox
It keeps coming:
Mobivox Unveils Voice-Activated Mobile Services Platform: This is primarily geared at service providers. While I think their platform is good, as it contains thinks like voice-activated dialing and call control, group calling, and voice-to-SMS, and voice-to-email messaging, I think the challenge is going to be getting carriers to adopt. You can read more from them on the Mobivox|PL blog.
Alltel Bringing Customers NuTsie: If you want to spend $4.99 a month or $19.99 a year to listen to items from your iTunes library from your Alltel handset, and you happen to have one of the 10 handsets Alltel supports this on, get thee to the Alltel Shop on the handset and buy it.
Into High School Sports? Check Out Locofan.net: Ted Wallingford helped to put together a social networking site for high school sports called LocoFan.net! This is about empowering the social discourse surrounding sports that makes prep athletics so much fun. Things like boosting, smack talking, Saturday-morning quarterbacking, and of course, media sharing. Not personally a high school ports fan, but maybe when my kids are old enough.
DeFi Mobile Offers Unlimited Calling over WiFi for $40/mo: This service provides unlimited calling as well as unlimited data on a number of commercial WiFi hotspots worldwid–yes, data you can use for other things. Seems a bit like a cross between Boingo and Truphone, but personally, I think Truphone and Boingo are a better deal.
Skype on Asterisk: Tom Keating did a long piece on the recent announcement about Skype being made available as a channel driver for Asterisk. In short, it allows you to both make and receive calls with Skype using an Asterisk server. Anything you can do with, say, an oubound SIP channel or an IP telephone extension can bow be done with Skype. It’s not going to be open-source, nor is it going to be free. It does open up some interesting opportunities.
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=2a7333e0-060e-4669-aa43-5ee7b0a75a7c)
Bookmark with: del.icio.us Digg it Furl iFeedReaders ma.gnolia Maple.nu RawSugar reddit Simpy StumbleUpon
Tags: High school, mobivox, skype, Tom Keating, truphone, voip Fnord
Comment by spg
they seem to indicate that there are no international long distance charges; and that landlines and cell phones anywhere in the world can be called. there is no price list. if this is true this is pretty amazing having nothing to do with the mobile aspect. anyone who simply makes a lot of calls to cell phones in for example any European country would be getting a very good deal being able to call unlimited for $40.00 per month. i looked and could not find any FUP. i will be following this one’ something just does not seem to add up.
Comment by spg
i was referring to DeFi Mobile in the above comment.
Comment by PhoneBoy
I forget that terminating calls to mobile phones outside North America is insanely expensive and for no good reason. If DeFi Mobile does allow calls to mobile phones to be included in the $40/mo, then they are probably going to go out of business really fast. However, I suspect they don’t allow this.
Comment by spg
very interesting. i posted on questions on the defimobile forum. there was no reply to the forum post but i did receive an email from Nikki @ Defimobile, posted below:
Satphoneguy,
DeFi Global Access members enjoy unlimited global calling. This
includes outbound calling to all countries and phone types.
On Oct 16, 8:27 pm, Satphoneguy wrote:
> > do i understand correctly that included are calls worldwide? does this
> > include outbound calls to all countries and phone types or only that i
> > can use the servicer anyplace in the world to call my home country?
> > for example can i make unlimited calls from the USA to cell phone in
> > europe?
> >
> > thanks in advance for clarification.
i may give them a try; although i wish they offered the same price plan as an outbound SIP trunk. i can not possible see how they can offer calls to countries such as cuba that run several dollars per minute.