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Truphone launches Out+ fixBritish based mobile VoIP specialist, Truphone, has fixed a
problem it had with subscribers outside the USA or UK. Thanks to Out+, callers
will appear to have a local number. Truphone is a low cost voice service which
enables those with Wi-Fi equipped Nokia handsets to make free calls using VoIP
technology. In the USA and Britain, Truphone can assign users with a telephone number
which makes them appear to be calling from a local fixed or mobile phone
service. The catch was that somebody who used the service in Sweden, however, would
look like they were calling from the States – because that's the default
country. People being called by that Truphone subscriber might decline to accept the
call because it looked like it was coming from America. With the new Out+ feature that problem is fixed. It does so by 'spoofing' the
subscriber's cellular phone number – even when the call is going via Wi-fi and
not a GSM network. The fix also offers 'carrier pre-select'. If Truphone detects that the person
you're calling is up and running on the Truphone network, it routes it to their
Truphone connexion not their GSM number. Which is spiffing because Truphone to Truphone calls are free. Truphone has also just launched another spiffing service which it is calling
Intones. They're sometimes called caller tones. Basically what happens is that when your phone starts to ring, instead of the
standard bring-bring, you get to listen to a bit of music which Truphone has
created. Mobile Software Insight particularly likes the Ska and Eurohouse versions. Unlike caller
tones which you can set on your 3 handset, for example, there is still a ringing
noise built into the Intone. So callers won't hang up thinking they've dialled the wrong number. |
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