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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
fring offers mobile VoIP with a twist
Similar to Skype, fring uses P2P technology to provide scalability. That said, mobile phones (with the current fees and speeds of mobile networks) are not suited to act supernodes, so I wonder how they've achieved this.
It can communicate with Skype Google Talk (as of now), and also supports text chat.
Even though the service is in itself free there can be a considerable cost in the data transfer, and depending on the efficiency of the voice compression, might be anything from noticeably costly to very costly.
If you have a flatrate data sub, then fring might be exactly what you need.
As the site's page rank is none, this must be a very new service.
As lower-cost mobile telephony is so important to most people I'm sure many more service providers will jump on the mobile VoIP wagon.
fring - it's fringing free !
It can communicate with Skype Google Talk (as of now), and also supports text chat.
Even though the service is in itself free there can be a considerable cost in the data transfer, and depending on the efficiency of the voice compression, might be anything from noticeably costly to very costly.
If you have a flatrate data sub, then fring might be exactly what you need.
As the site's page rank is none, this must be a very new service.
As lower-cost mobile telephony is so important to most people I'm sure many more service providers will jump on the mobile VoIP wagon.
fring - it's fringing free !
