MINO Wireless, announced its new mobile application for making inexpensive international calls designed for Symbian OS phones. Symbian OS supported mobile phone, such as Nokia, Sony Ericcson, and
Motorola can call any phone worldwide at rates starting from 2.2 cents per minute using MINO.
Considering the popularity of these mobile phone brands and how expensive international calls are using your mobile phone, the ability to make inexpensive VoIP calls to PSTN numbers using your mobile phone has a huge convenience factor.
MINO began offering its service in early 2006 and has signed up over 90,000 users in more than 50 countries.
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MINO Wireless, a Sunnyvale, CA-based mobile services company, today announced a campaign to promote its International Call from Mobile Phone service through Chinese media in the US. MINO service makes international calls easy and affordable by using Internet (or VoIP) call technology.
With MINO, users can call from the US to China from their mobile phones at 2.2 cents per minute. MINO’s ads are planned to appear in Chinese language print media Singtao and World Journal, on local TV station KTSF, which broadcasts ethnic programming, and on SVC and Singtao Radio. The print ads started running on June 1, 2006 and have drawn a large number of calls both in English and Chinese.
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T-Mobile U.K. has banned the use of VoIP over its cellular networks. T-Mobile's web 'n' walk plan expressly prohibits such usage right
on their website and even states that the company reserves the right to terminate contracts.
Here's the text from the
bottom of their site:
Use of Voice over Internet Protocol and Messaging over Internet Protocol is prohibited by T-Mobile. If use of either or both of these services is detected T-Mobile may terminate all contracts with the customer and disconnect any SIM cards and/or web ‘n’ walk cards from the T-Mobile network.
They're blocking VoIP
and messaging over IP? I can't install a simple text messaging client? Unbelievable. So basically they are forcing me to use SMS, which carries a per-message fee. Isn't that grand? It gets better. They also don't want any heavy data users on their network even if you purchased the "unlimited plan":
To ensure a high quality of service for all our customers, a fair use policy applies. T-Mobile defines fair use as total UK data use (both sent and received) of up to 2GB per month. T-Mobile may contact customers who exceed this volume of data in two (or more) consecutive months in any six month period to ask them to reduce their usage. If usage is not reduced, notice may be given, after which network protection controls may be applied which will result in a reduced speed of transmission.
I guess "unlimited" is really "limited".
T-Mobile is trying to protect their voice revenues from VoIP companies such as
Mino Wireless, which I recently discovered. Mino Wireless recently launched a Java-based VoIP softphone that performs VoIP-over-mobile calls, offering rates as low as US$0.02 per minute for international calls. That's really cheap. No wonder T-Mobile wants to block VoIP. Of course, I already knew that VoIP would be cheaper than mobile international calls.
Mino's Java-based softphone works on Blackberries, Palm-based devices (Treo), Windows Mobile devices, Symbian phones, and Docomo. So if you want to take your chances on cheap VoIP mobile calls using T-Mobile's service and not getting the boot,
check out Mino.As far as T-Mobile and the VoIP and text messaging ban, my guess is that T-Mobile won't be able to sustain this business model for very long. Eventually customers will demand these applications and competition will force T-Mobile to remove the ban. Maybe we should sick the rabid Net Neutrality proponents on the cellular carriers?
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