Recently Vecosys mentioned social mobile network trends in 2007. The mobile trend continues as Truphone announces £12.5 million of venture capital funding. Truphone is creating quite a buzz, with a favorable mention on GigaOM. They got national UK TV coverage as a result.
So is this the start of a good year for the SIP industry, to offset Skype’s (non-SIP) dominance on the desktop? Or do you think Truphone is just another VoIP provider doomed to struggle for real revenue as some people have commented of Vonage or Skype?
I welcome your comments!
UPDATE: Om Malik thinks the investment is laced with a dash of irrationality.
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3 responses to “Mobile SIP service on Symbian gets $24.5m”
They’re already behind http://www.fring.com which is a free download and probably more functional. I’m sure there will be many more start-ups in this area, many free…
Steve,
Thanks for the tip, I actually did experiment with fring a while back. But now I see that they have massively improved.
Nimbuzz (which uses pjsip on the PC client) is also worth a mention. They have a different model for voice calls by using local numbers for GSM instead of straight SIP/VoIP call over Wifi or 3G/GPRS like Truphone and fring.
The more the better, good for us users.
O seu softphone SIP é compativel com os aparelhos celulares Nokia N91 ou E61. Favor, envia um demo para ser instalado com meu servidor VOIP (Asterisk)
Abraço,
Willis