Tru++ 2010

This week came with great news from Truphone, would have been nice to catch up with TruThings at ITCom in Miami, but decided for Berlin to give a presentation at 3G + & LTE Event, however:

• yeah, Truphone Local Anywhere is out - eager to get my hands on one SIM asap (any events soon in UK?!?!), my mobile roaming bill considering the traveling agenda would really increase my company profit in 2010. So, free calls when Wi-Fi, good price when on GSM and amazing low prices when roaming..
  
• and of course, Tru'Droid for Nexus One, couldn't last very long without anyhow, but just above 2 weeks since device was released is remarkable - congratulations to the team, being the first to offer calls over Wi-Fi with the Google phone

The smarter choice is becoming the obvious choice.

Truphone - Call With Your iPod Touch

On 4th of December, 2008, Truphone increased its target market, making available their smart VoIP client available for iPod Touch:
http://truphone.blogspot.com/2008/12/turn-your-ipod-touch-into-phone-with.html

... charming and handy to use. Still loyal to my Nokia phone, but the latest developments from Truphone for iPhone and i'Touch are really tempting ...

Truphone Granted an Injunction Against T-Mobile

Interesting news from yesterday that really worth mentioning, read more on voipuser.org.

Truphone is a Mobile VoIP operator based in UK offering cheap rates on mobile calls. They use OpenSER as core SIP router in their VoIP platform.

Kamailio (OpenSER) Summit 2006: Truphone - Reversing The Paradigm

No other new service in the last year rose so much rumors in the market as Truphone (http://www.truphone.com) did since its beta launch at VoN Autumn America, Boston, 2006. It was not just a new VoIP service like many others in these years, they brought something people spoke about in the past, but was mainly behind the scenes: VoIP over mobile network. And it is not voice channel replacement, but convergence between fixed and mobile networks, between SIP and other IM/VoIP protocols out there -- this is more than what VoIP did to fixed lines in the past, and could open a new era for mobile communication.

Googling will reveal lot of comments about Truphone target and its features, which makes no sense to repeat here. You can just make an account and test it by yourself.

I will underline only one idea presented there: what is behind the service. Basically the Truphone VoIP platform is pure open source. Database server, web server, sip server, media server, operating systems. Isn't it a bit mad to do it so? Well, seems not, the platform was built starting with March 2006 and in about 6 month was able to run in beta mode, while a lot of efforts were conducted to develop client side applications, web interfaces and many bits and pieces for transconding, handoff and interoperability.

Would a vendor (even the big ones) be capable to deliver a solution for a brand new business model in such time frame? James Body, Director Networks Truphone, spoke enthusiastically about the flexibility and power of open source: how one can combine and get best out of it for a solid business.

Download slides of Truphone - Reversing The Paradigm