Thursday, March 15, 2007

Vodafone launches innovative web phone in Portugal

Vodafone Portugal launched 'Vodafone web phone'. It's a download to your PC, which is assigned a mobile number. Through it, you can IM, voice/videocall, SMS and MMS.

Some of it looks new to me:
  • Vodafone essentially launching a Skype/MSN/AIM-like VoIP-service.
  • Allows calling to and from mobiles, the PC mimicking as a mobile phone. Interesting in countries where SkypeIn is not offered (such as the Netherlands; SkypeIn so far is offered in just 15 countries). Tariffs of course are mobile tariffs.

I'm not sure what the technology is (most likely Microsoft). On-net and PC-to-PC calls are free of course, as any non-Portuguese speaker can understand from the demo.


2 comments:

otmar said...

Sound like what Mobilkom has done in Austria. See http://voipandenum.blogspot.com/2006/11/very-useful-voip-implementation-a1.html

Unknown said...

It is suggested to be Iskoot by Om Malik.
http://gigaom.com/2007/03/15/is-vodafones-starfish-really-iskoot/