Fring aims to cut cellphone costs with VOIP
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InfoWorld - Avi Shechter, co-founder and CEO of Fringland (Fring), could be on to something big with the launch of a cheap Internet-based phone service that runs over mobile networks. But the Israeli entrepreneur could also be in for the fight of his life with mobile phone network operators determined to protect their cash-cow voice business from virtual service providers.
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With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone services.
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AT&T Corp. T.N  and Internet  telephone provider Vonage on Thursday said they were cutting  prices for their residential Internet calling services by $5  per month, the strongest signs yet of a price war in the  nascent market.
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NEW YORK -  Skype, which helped make free PC-to-PC calling a global phenomenon, will announce Wednesday a $29.95-a-year service offering unlimited calls to wireless and traditional landline phones.  Skype's Unlimited Calling subscription moves the company toward the mainstream of phone services and poses a significant challenge on price to many VoIP services - short for Voice over Internet Protocol - that can cost $300 to $400 per year.
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UK.biz subsidises our social life British workers are spending around Â£400m a year on personal calls using company mobile phones, according to research from Aurora Kendrick James (AJK).â¦
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Fring, a mobile-phone version of Skype, uses peer-to-peer Internet technology to send calls from mobile phones over the Internet at no charge.
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Mobile phone users are to be able to use their handset to make free calls over the internet via Skype.
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Vonage HoldingsÂ on Tuesday announced it has partnered with two companies to offer wireless telephone handsets for its VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service.
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An announcement that AT&amp;T would drop its prices for its VoIP CallVantage Service, its popular residential broadband phone service, from $34.
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Google Talk also invited to party Just as Skype declares that the market isn't right for a mobile client, Fring releases one which works seamlessly with its service.â¦
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Within this year, tech-savvy Koreans will be able to make and receive calls through Internet-enabled phones as you would do on regular phones, at a lower cost.
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Handsets, coming in mid-2005, will eliminate the need for a VoIP adapter.
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Spurred by low prices and unique features, voice-over-IP services are joining cell phones as alternatives to traditional, century-old telephone technology.
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A small South Carolina company says it has a cure for the modern plague of budget-busting cell-phone charges racked up by teenagers: a gadget for text-messaging that isn't a cell phone.
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Despite a fierce lobbying campaign by the telecoms industry, the European Commission is poised to force operators to slash the cost of mobile phone calls while abroad, officials say.
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By Elizabeth Lazarowitz, Daily News, New York  Feb. 5--With family and friends in such far-flung places as Hong Kong and  Argentina, Carlos Ronisky used to run up hefty phone bills just trying to keep  in touch.   Then he heard about VoIP.
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Skype to start charging for VoIP calls to regular phones, computer-to-computer calls to remain free.