Truphone launches true mobile VoIP service for Nokia N80

Truphone today announced a beta version of its free VoIP download for Nokia's Wi-Fi-enabled N80 mobile handset. Available from the Truphone website later this month, the download instantly brings free and low-cost mobile calls within easy reach of all N80 handset owners.

There are no monthly fees for any Truphone users and calls between on net Truphone handsets are free, worldwide. As a launch offer to the end of the year, USA users benefit from free calls to USA and Canada, while the unique UK telecoms market enables Truphone to offer UK users calls some two billion landlines in major countries for free. All other Truphone calls from the users mobile are billed at characteristically low VoIP rates.

Support for Nokias N80 handset brings true mobile VoIP to the mass market and gives Truphone genuine consumer appeal, said James Tagg, Truphones chief executive. Truphone routes calls entirely via the internet ensuring the lowest possible call costs to consumers whether in their home country or travelling abroad, unlike calling card services masquerading as mobile VoIP.

In September, Truphone announced its first download, for Nokias latest E-series handsets, with a promise that a download for N-series handsets would follow imminently. Support for additional Wi-Fi-enabled phones, including those built on the Windows Mobile platform, will come in due course.

To get Truphone:
Users in the UK should send an SMS with the word TRU to shortcode 60030
Users in the USA should send an SMS with the word TRU to +44 7624 000 000
Users elsewhere should send an SMS with the word TRU to +44 7624 000 000

10/17/2006 8:34:29 PM
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