Given how mobile operators are ripping off their consumers, one does not expect a lot from them. It is thus surprising that T-Mobile, one of the largest global wireless carriers, launched a mobile VoIP (mVoIP) service – Bobsled – that allows you to make unlimited FREE calls to USA, Canada and Puerto Rico and also...

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Few can forget Jaxtr, a company that once offered unlimited international VoIP calls between several countries (including India). Jaxtr, founded by Touraj Parang and Philip Mobin in October 2005, has since been sold to Sabeer Bhatia’s Sabse Technologies Inc. After a brief hiatus, Jaxtr has launched its latest offering – JaxtrSMS – that allows one...

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It has been quite some time since we heard about a genuine way to make unlimited free international calls. Although call rates are dropping across the board, nothing beats FREE So, today we have a great way for you to make free calls to 5 countries until September 15 using WiMobile. You can make free...

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Wow….given the amount of interest in the previous post on OBi110/OBi100 ATA and the reasons that you must consider one before buying any VoIP hardware, there is no doubt that Obihai has a winner on their hands. There, however, seems to be some confusion about the various components of the service and what is the...

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UPDATE (15th March 2011): After a brief outage the Google Voice SIP URI is working again For an otherwise great great service, the lack of interoperability with SIP service mars the attractiveness of Google Voice. Up until recently, Google offered the ability to forward the Google Voice number to a Gizmo account, providing some way...

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One of the most common complaints against Google Voice is that it does not provide SIP support and consequently one cannot use Google Voice without losing local plan minutes. We have provided a work around to enable SIP support in Google Voice, however, that is not the most elegant method. Today, we review an app–Talkatone–that...

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While most VoIP service providers aim to target all the customers looking for VoIP services, research in marketing suggests that it is practically a very difficult to task to connect and communicate with customers with heterogeneous needs (different preferences). Firms are much better off segmenting the market into groups of consumers with distinct needs and...

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When VoIP service providers offered VoIP customers with VoIP ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) for the first time, it was considered a future oriented telecommunicating system. If you are not familiar with ATA’s, I will encourage you to read 6 ways to access VoIP. The ability to call anywhere just from the comfort of your home...

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One of the most frequent requests that I get is for more tools to send and receive text messages (SMS) for FREE. We have already covered a few ways to send free text messages (SMS) to almost all over the world. The problem with many of the web-based text messaging service is that they do...

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The holiday season is here and those of us away from home will surely miss friends and family back home. Being able to keep in touch with folks back home is the next best thing to being at home. So, here is a great deal that will help you precisely do that – make FREE...

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