While T-Mobile CEO, Hamid Akhavan gave his contradictory views on Mobile VoIP (MVoIP) applications, an Austria VoIP start-up has silently launched their Mobile VoIP service creating further debate on this latest form of VoIP.
According to TeleGeography, Mobilkom Austria has made a beta release of their Mobile VoIP service known as A1 over IP. It is under trial involving nearly 2,000 beta users. So, we should look for the public version in near future.
Mobilkom CEO, Boris Nemsic says,
The use of VoIP is one of the hottest trends at the moment. As innovation leader, we will actively co-shape the further development of this technology. The commercial launch of A1 over IP is the first step in this direction.
The company claims the A1 over IP would enable users to make free internet telephony calls from their normal mobile number.
In the 3GSM conference in Barcelona, T-Mobile said that time is not conducive for MVoIP services as of now. It has far less impact and less prevalent as those running over PCs. There are also technical issues that make mobile VoIP services difficult to implement.
