By admin on October 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment
T-mobile along with Vectone intends to capture a large chunk of the increasing migration of international calling minutes on to the mobile.
Vectone is already established across Europe and has over one million customers across Denmark, Norway, Austria, The
Netherlands and
Switzerland.
T-mobile claims to have over 50% of the wholesale market already (virgin’s MVNO operation rides on t-mobile).
The Ethnic focussed, low-cost prepay service is estimated to target ten million potential
subscribers in the UK generating more than seven billion calls per year.
T-Mobile,
managing director Richard Moat said: ‘We are delighted to be supporting Vectone’s ambitious expansion plans for the UK market. The deal with Vectone signals our intent to become a major player in the ethnic MVNO arena.
‘With international calling card minutes rapidly migrating to mobile, this is an excellent time to be forging new partnerships in a segment which is showing signs of bucking the recession with strong projected growth rates.
‘Vectone builds on our eight existing MVNO partnerships and underlines our ambitions to target new growth areas in the wholesale market.’
T-mobile along with Vectone intends to capture a large chunk of the potential 7 billion calls per year of international calling from the ethnic community within the UK.
Vectone is already established across Europe and has over one million customers across Denmark, Norway, Austria, The Netherlands and Switzerland.
T-mobile claims to have over 50% of the wholesale market already (virgin’s MVNO operation rides on t-mobile) and with its ninth major
partnership, there may be more to cheer about.
The Ethnic focussed, low-cost prepay service is estimated to target ten million potential subscribers in the UK.
T-Mobile, managing director Richard Moat said: ‘We are delighted to be supporting Vectone’s ambitious expansion plans for the UK market. The deal with Vectone signals our intent to become a major player in the ethnic MVNO arena.
‘With international calling card minutes rapidly migrating to mobile, this is an excellent time to be forging new partnerships in a segment which is showing signs of bucking the recession with strong projected growth rates.
‘Vectone builds on our eight existing MVNO partnerships and underlines our ambitions to target new growth areas in the wholesale market.’
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By Editor on September 27, 2006 · Leave a Comment
There’s a new mobile calling plan on the block, and while it’s not yet available for everyone and every phone, those who can use it should be able to save some serious moolah.
Back in March, Ars reported on a new VoIP service by the name of JAJAH that works kind of in reverse of regular VoIP options like the ones offered by Vonage, Verizon, or Packet8. You go to the JAJAH site, input your own phone number and the one you want to call, and then both phones will ring and connect through the service’s Internet-service backbone rather than whatever lines your local provider likes to use.
That’s all very clever, and also very cheap-I can use it to call my family in Sweden for 2.5¢ a minute (19¢ to reach their cell phones) whereas Vonage charges 6¢ and 37¢, respectively. Local CLEC Verizon could charge as much as 93¢/minute for a landline call, depending on my calling plan.
The mobile service JAJAH annouced today works a bit differently once again. You need to install a Java plugin for your phone, and that piece of software is currently only available for some phones running Symbian OS. (The company says that they’re working on broader phone support.) Once installed and configured, this plugin will attempt to reroute your calls through the JAJAH infrastructure rather than the phone company’s backbone. Rather than getting a callback, though, this service should be transparent to you and work much like any other cellphone call-only cheaper (or even free), depending on who you’re calling.
The plugin sends an SMS message to the backbone servers, or optionally a GPRS transmission if you want it to go that route instead. The server calls your target and your phone, the plugin picks up automatically without generating a ringtone, and it all looks like a normal call.
If this works as advertised (I don’t have a Symbian phone so I can’t test it), it’s a truly great idea and one that could put a serious hurt on the current paradigm of limiting cell phones to a certain number of calling minutes lest you want to face ridiculous overage charges. The success of this model could be nothing more than a marketing challenge as it can be difficult for a small startup to get the word out to the general populace in a speedy manner. Then again, I’m sure Cingular, Alltel, and Sprint Nextel won’t be happy to play host to what must look like a parasitic network that generates no revenue for them, and they may take technical steps to stop this thing.
Source- http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060926-7837.html
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