UnwireIndia

Cellular operators on Monday fiercely opposed telecom regulator TRAI’s recommendation to allow internet service providers to offer unrestricted internet telephony services, saying it would be against the basic principle of level-playing field.

The GSM operators lobby COAI Director General T V Ramachandran demanded that there should be level playing field and that telecom regulator TRAI’s recommendations are against the very basic principle of level-playing field since they allow unrestricted internet telephony to ISPs at no additional cost.
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Nimbuzz has launched an application to provide an all-in-one solution for free mobile VoIP calling, conference calling, instant messaging, chat and group chat, and photo and file sending across multiple IM communities, including Skype, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo!, AIM, Jabber and ICQ, plus 23 social networks, including Facebook and Myspace.

Once users download the Nimbuzz application for the mobile and register as a new user, contacts from their selected IM communities are aggregated into a single contact list with icons indicating real-time ‘presence’ - which contacts are online or offline and from which communities.

“Everyone loves Skype (on the PC). But when it comes to the mobile, we believe we offer a better solution,” said Tariq Dag Steinberg Khan, the London-based Chief Marketing Officer for Nimbuzz. Nimbuzz works across all the major communities and on more than 500 handsets worldwide. With this news release, we now also have a genuine free mobile VoIP solution that works on more than 90 handsets including Nokia, Samsung and LG.
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California-based Jajah, a company that deals with voice over internet protocol (VoIP), today introduced a cheap long-distance calling facility for calls from and to India. Although currently priced at Rs 3 (per minute), calls to the US and Europe will soon be made free of cost for users, claims the company.

Jajah is a simple way to make cheap calls using the Internet - without headphones, microphones or software downloads. It connects users phone-to-phone, landline or mobile, local or anywhere else in the world. An internet connection is only necessary to initiate the call. For the service to work, you needed to register at the website and then type in the number you wanted to call from as well as the number you wanted Read the rest of this entry »

Skype , the leading voip provider is offering SkypeOut calls to India and Pakistan for 50% less. All calls to either mobile or landline in these two countries will now cost 50% of their current SkypeOut rate. This offer is valid only from the 2nd of July to the 31 of July of this year.

This probably is to encourage the use of SkypeOutin those two countries and make it cheaper of Indian Read the rest of this entry »