Here’s a money saver for us
Mobile VoIP, which is already known as mVoIP, is about to go mainstream. In the coming days and weeks Skype, Fring, Nimbuzz, Truphone and many others will all be offering mVoIP through your cell phone’s Internet connection.
Overseas too?
Classic Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is already old technology which we tried and tested and found to be great and cheap. Now the next generation is standing on the threshold, ready to free users up even further by linking the technology to existing cell phone connectivity. It’s global, ready-to-use, slick, good quality and, best of all, it’s mostly free.
How can I get it?
What you need to do to stay ‘mainstream’ is to take a Cash Advance and get yourself the latest available phone. I just did it. The phone is great. Now I have to learn to use it.
How it works
It couldn’t be easier – mVoIP software allows you to talk and Instant Message (IM) via your handset’s Internet connection. You will still be paying for your Internet connection, but not for a phone call. Your service provider doesn’t know what you’re doing, all he knows is his job, which is to transfer data, and data is data. You could be surfing the Web, ftp-ing files to your web server, making a VoIP call or scanning for open ports on the Pentagon’s servers. It doesn’t matter – it’s all just data to them. So it really doesn’t make a difference if you’re using your Internet connection for making phone calls.
Who is interested in what you are doing is mainly you – you are talking on the phone and saving money. And if you make a lot of overseas phone calls you will save a lot of money.
What will happen to the old landline?
Your landline phone provider will be interested as well – every time you use the mVoIP and save money, they will be losing the money you would have spent with them. I can’t say I feel sorry for them. I remember how things used to be and how much we once paid for phone calls. Why do I think they took advantage when we had nowhere else to go?
The communication change
Of all the changes that have taken place on our planet over the past 20 or 30 years, the science of communications must be near the top of the ‘most dramatic’ list. I remember how we lined up at a glass enclosed phone booth clutching a handful of coins and occasionally banging on the door to try and dislodge the man or woman, who seemed to have been in there for hours.
Today I can drop onto the nearest park bench, fish my tiny cell phone from the depths of my pocket and call a long lost friend on the other side of the planet – for free! That’s progress. And from here it will only get better and faster.
What’s next?
Your little cell phone is on the way to becoming your home computer. Motorola boss Ed Zander said during his keynote speech at Software 2007, “We’re betting that what happened to PCs will happen to these new smart phones.” It seems that phones are about to get computing power and once that starts, the sky’s the limit.
But it will soon start saving you money on phone calls.
VOIP is great, but one problem is that public WiFi access is still way too limited in America… we’re definitely behind the times when it comes to broadband Internet penetration… we look like a Third-World country when we should be taking the lead