Now UK customers use wireless service as well as network on their mobile phones. UK based Internet telephony provider, Velofone, has unveiled a wireless based voice over Internet protocol (wVoIP) service, named VeloMobile at the Wireless event in London on May 24, 2007.
The company has offered the service as pre-installation in VeloMobile handset, the Windows Mobile-powered HTC S620, which allows users to insert their existing SIM card. When user will come onto a range of designated Wi-Fi hotspot, then the phone will automatically switch over to an IP based service. Users can use any Windows mobile phone to use this service. The service is intially based on Cicero Networks’ softphone client, CiceroPhone.
Since customer has its own SIP stack, so it can not be blocked by any operators in the way like Truphone recently experienced with Vodafone handsets. The company has already signed a deal with Boingo, a US-based wireless hotspot provider to provide its global presence in public areas.
Mark Gordon, Velofone’s managing director,
We believe the most critical element in wVoIP is the end-user experience, and the S620 ticks all of those boxes. Many dual-mode devices today require the subscriber to select the network to use; we have created a solution so that the handset automatically does that for them.
Image Credit: Volafone
Via: ZD Net
