Cubic Telecom to offer Free international calls?

It seems this September is going to be a big month for VOIP and telecom industry overall. A possible Gphone announcement(will cover more news on Gphone) and Cubic Telecom's likely role in this release is gonna keep me busy this September. Hopefully the news come out good and its favourable for the consumers.

Cubic telecom however are a bit ahead of google and already started dishing out their plans on what we can expect from then in the coming years. Cubic plans to become the world’s first truly global mobile service provider. They have raised over 5 million Euro in VC funding. Cubic is founded by fellow blogger Pat Phelan of Roam4Free. Pat has already promised VOIP Guide of some exciting news coming up in the next 2-3 weeks. We are all ears.

The most prominent sentence in the whole PR release was "Cubic is working towards free speech." They also promised to cut down the cost of mobile communication to significantly low or nil.

According to Pat (I take it highly official), We want a world in which you can pick up your mobile phone anywhere and call anyone for as long as you like and not worry about the price. When most people think about driving down the cost of telephone calls, they think of calling from computer-to-computer. We don’t. We deliver simple, high quality, high value telephone services direct to the devices that people like to use - their mobile phones. There’s no software to download, nothing to configure, nothing new to learn. Our service is straightforward and our network caters to all.

Way to go, I dont want to jump to conclusions but does that mean Cubic is trying to minimise the international mobile call charges to extremely low or probably FREE?
I suspect Cubic is trying to operate this Maxroam model?

Cubic also going to launch this service in over 160 countries. I hope they are taking Asia seriously. The "Chindia" region can make this service more interesting.

So great job Pat. We seriously hope you kick a$ of traditional facist telecom operators :-) and finally can we expect free international calls at all?

Fring releases Worlds First Andriod VOIP App

Fring did it again (as always) beating their competitors at Andriod VOIP. Android Phones are getting popular in the USA and VOIP is soon going to be huge on Android.

It seems Fring realised the potential much early and started working towards the goal of introducing the world's first Android VOIP application. fring has just released its first version for Android phones, enabling the world’s first free voice calls (VoIP) over fring and Skype, MSN and Google talk.

Accroding to the official PR, As of today, users can enjoy the world’s first free voice calls (VoIP) over fring, Skype, MSN and GoogleTalk and via hundreds of SIP providers. As on the rest of fring’s supported-platforms, they can also see real-time presence and live chat with their ICQ, Yahoo! and AIM buddies and use Twitter, as part of their integrated contact list.

fring on android works over 3G, GPRS or Wi-Fi internet connections. The brand-new Android version can be downloaded via fring’s WAP site at m.fring.com or directly via the Android Market.

Check out Fring Andriod VOIP Application Information Video:

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AdCalls launches Ad based Free international voip calls

California based internet ad company, Ad Calls has launched Ad Supported VoIP with CRM features for business class VOIP companies. Their VOIP dialer can be used by businesses and individuals to make free international calls by watching Ads served by them.

Many companies in the past, have tried this model but couldn't succeed. The most prominent example is globe7. They started off by giving a promise that just watch our videos and get calling minutes. However it seems you can't really support or subsidise the VOIP call by watching videos or ads. Adcalls although has a different strategy. They are involving businesses by giving them incentives such as User's information etc. Adcalls will allow businesses to get personal information about users and in turn ask them to advertise their business on Adcalls. These leads could be lucrate for some businesses. They might not just be VOIP companies but other insurance, banking, finance companies are always looking for your personal information to be converted into a potential lead.

However the dialer will collect other senstive information such as Credit card details etc and share with advertisers. Its a perfect CRM model for advertisers and Adcalls. However for users, this could be a nightmare. Imagine you just made a call to India and you started getting calls from various travelcompanies about your potential visit to india :-) They will read your mind and pocket at the same time.

It would be interested to see how this VOIP service shape up and in fact in the end, offers truly free international voip calls to users. Most promises are ignored once the voip service is established. One more interesting point could be about their Terms of Service, how sneaky it could get to put sensitive information in TOS and get customers agree to it. I am sure 99% dont bother to read TOS. Manycompanies then steal the data for their own benefit.

Lets hope it all turns out good and in favour of the consumers and we get a truly free international voip calls service.

Free VoIP calls to landlines in 60 countries

The Skype competitor Gizmo Project is offering free calls to any landline phone in Australia, as well as 59 other countries.

VoIP provider SIPphone has launched a promotion which offers free calls to any landline in Australia, as well a 59 other countries.
SIPphone is even offering free calls to mobiles in some countries, including Canada, China, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, USA and others.
The free calling offer is available through SIPphone's Skype-like software client called Gizmo.
The only catch in the promotion is that you have to be an "active Gizmo user" and get your contacts to sign up for Gizmo and add their PSTN numbers to their Gizmo profile.
Gizmo is similar to the Skype client but considerably more feature-rich, including features like call recording and voicemail that are extra cost add-ons for Skype. It's available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.There's even a version for the Nokia 770 internet tablet.
Gizmo Project is also the first instant messaging network to be fully interoperable with Google Talk, so you can text-chat with Google Talk contacts via Gizmo without having to sign up for a Google Talk account yourself (and vice versa).
Gizmo started out as a VoIP client that was more standards-compliant than Skype: it uses industry-standard SIP protocols. However, it attracted criticism because despite using SIP, it could only connect to the SIPphone network.
The new version 2.0 can also connect to third-party Asterisk servers, allowing you to setup a VoIP PABX in the office and use Gizmo as a front-end.
For Mac users, there's a plugin for Adium which provides all the functionality of Gizmo via Adium.

Totally Free incoming and outgoing calls to USA

This guide will be extremely helpful for people who want to have a FREE incoming USA number and make calls to other USA resident/receive calls from anywhere in the world. We can achieve this with any free incoming USA number service and teaming it up with GrandCentral.

Today we are going to use multiple VOIP services to make this whole setup work for USA and non-USA residents. That means it should work from anywhere in the world including India (most people are concerned with this)

Lets see how we can achieve this.

1) First Read this list of Free Incoming Geographic numbers

Now you have a Free USA number. You can also get one from AIM Phoneline

Remember the following while getting AIM Line.

1) You can pick a specific area code.
2) Atleast receive 1 call per month to keep the phoneline active.
3) Has Voicemail service.
4) Dont forget to download AIM messenger.


2)Now register at GrandCentral (Needs invitation)
3)Now Register at Talkdigits
4)In Talkdigits, setup forwarding to your USA DID number (For outside USA, use your incoming free number)

Now you can receive calls for FREE from anyone who calls your GrandCentral or AIM Phoneline.

Making Outgoing Calls with GrandCentral:

1) Login to GrandCentral
2) Go to click2call feature
3) Dial any USA number
4) It will first call you and then connect you to the party!
5) For non-USA residents, If you have setup everything correctly, you can also receive this call on your AIM phoneline.

Happy calling to USA and yeah don't forget to give you USA number. Show it off as if you live in USA :-)

Last but not the least, please share your GrandCentral invitation with others. I will try my best to give it to others. Please post your email address for a invite.