Squawk Box May 27 - Truphone Anywhere
Truphone Anywhere wasn’t supposed to announce this morning, but gosh… it did! While we were on the line chatting with Truphone’s James Body and Tom Carter, the team at Truphone HQ was madly reconfiguring their web site and getting the latest version of the Truphone client online.
So what’s special about it? Truphone Anywhere. Truphone Anywhere is a tool that lets Truphone users access Truphone’s famous low rates … via a local dial-in, and not just WiFi. Here in Canada, I will dedicate one of the MyFive numbers on my Rogers account to Truphone, which theoretically means I should be able to trim a substantial amount off my monthly bill.
Our call had over 20 people on it, with some very good questions asked by the various callers about how the Truphone model worked and Truphone’s business. In addition to the questions asked on the phone, there was also a lively discussion on the wall (account required to view).
On the call: Jeb Brilliant, James Body, Matthew Burpee, Andy Abramson, Dan York, Jim Courtney, Willhelm Wimmreuter, Mark Hewitt, Jeanette Fisher, Dave Brown, Ian Hood, Bill Volk, Warren Bent, Peter Childs, Jonathan Jensen, Randall Howard, Mike Pruyn, Todd Spraggins, Sheryl Breuker, Tom Carter, Greg McQuay, Roland Hanbury
Enjoy the call
May 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
I could have announced Truphone Anywhere yet in February 2008. When we were in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress I got a sneak peek. :)
Read the story:
http://www.goebel.net/technews/2008/05/finally-truphone-anywhere-comes-out-and.html
May 28th, 2008 at 5:50 am
[...] Truphone just released their new 4.0 client for Nokia S60 phones. Truphone Anywhere allows users to make calls over 3G or WiFi at very inexpensive rates. While that doesn’t sound particularly new, the clincher about Truphone Anywhere is that you can use Truphone to make calls even when you’re way out of 3G or WiFi range. Even if you’re outside 3G or WiFi range but still have a GSM signal on your phone, the call can get routed through a PSTN gateway in your country. This gateway, which is a national call in your country, will connect your call to its international destination at Truphone’s rates. This is a perfect solution if you do quite a bit of international traveling and need to make a lot of phone calls. For more information, listen to Alec Saunder’s podcast. [...]
May 28th, 2008 at 11:19 am
We (www.localphone.com) have been offering a service like this since Christmas, we offer basic calling card service, direct dial (pretty much what is mentioned in this article), all the way through to VoIP accounts.