Truphone

Squawk Box May 27 – Truphone Anywhere

May 27, 2008

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.

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Access Truphone Anywhere

May 27, 2008

According to the UK site Techworld, Truphone is set to announce Truphone Anywhere, a service that lets you acccess the Truphone network from any mobile, whether on WiFi or not. Truphone Anywhere dials a gateway on a local number, which then connects through to the destination number, saving money if it is an international call. [...]

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Truphone rakes in £16.5m series B

April 17, 2008

The rumours have been circulating for some weeks about Truphone’s series B financing. Today Truphone announced a raise of £16.5m, or approximately $33 million, this after acquiring operator Sim4Travel a week ago.  The raise was smaller than some of the rumours intimated (numbers as high as $60 million were being bandied about), but is still [...]

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Truphone: the world’s GSM and WiFi mobile operator?

April 10, 2008

Truphone punched out an interesting news bite today… they announced that they’ve acquired the business of Sim4Travel. Although Sim4Travel is a publicly traded company in the UK, don’t expect to be buying Truphone stock anytime soon. This is an asset purchase, rather than a merger. Sim4Travel (for those of us who live outside the UK) [...]

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Squawk Box Feb 12. MWC Day 2

February 13, 2008

It's been an adventure getting connectivity at MWC, that's for sure.  Yesterday, for the SquawkBox, I settled down into a corner of hall 4, and used this unique setup.  The console for the call ran on the Nokia N810 tablet, pictured below.  Because DNS resolution on the show network is so poor, it was tethered [...]

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Call Me with Truphone on Facebook

December 6, 2007

Truphone have officially announced their Call Me Facebook application, which I briefly mentioned last week.  The big feature is the embeddable Call Me button.  It can be dropped into any place on Facebook that can take an attachment — you can: Embed your 'Call Me' button within Facebook messages; Post your 'Call Me' button onto [...]

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Elwood a Truphoner; New Facebook App too!

November 29, 2007

Dean Elwood has finally let the rest of the world know that he's now a Truphoner.  I knew in October, at VON, but he's only now chosen to make the news public.  Congratulations to Dean, and also to the Truphone team. The other thing that slipped out yesterday was Truphone's new Facebook application.  Dean says: [...]

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Mobivox vs Truphone: What kind of mobile user are you?

October 15, 2007

Andy thinks that T-Mobile's submarine play is UMA, and that Truphone, with it's use of WiFi to carry phone calls, is the competition's answer to UMA.   Go read his reasoning. I'm not sure I totally agree.  Not that Truphone doesn't have a great service, but ultimately UMA plays (and indeed, all alternate wireless services) are [...]

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T-Mobile and the circling VoIP sharks

June 18, 2007

What do you do if a new generation of technology is emerging which will kill your cash cow?  It's an old story in the tech business, and you really only have two choices: fight innovation, or embrace it.  T-Mobile is fighting at the moment.  They're refusing to connect calls on Truphone, arguing that Truphone isn't shouldering [...]

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VoIP is hard… who'd a thunk it?

April 16, 2007

Does anyone remember when it was hard to set up the internet on a PC?  The bad old days of installing a TCP/IP stack, configuring IP addresses for gateways, and DNS servers, and then using gopher to browse to your favorite sites? That's where we are with VoIP.  And Forrester, bless their hearts, have just published [...]

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