Global calling gets more mobile and less cellular

TruphoneipodtouchIt’s no secret that landlines are getting replaced by mobile phones. As soon as Verizon lights up the dark fiber they put in my front lawn five months, I’m cutting the landline cord myself. Unless I keep running out of juice on the mobile phone that is. So if phone calls are generally moving from fixed lines to mobile lines, is there any impact on international calls? Turns out that the trend follows suit, perhaps even more so thanks to low cost VoIP or other web-based global call rates. The report from TeleGeography shows that 45% of all international calls are mobile to mobile and we’ve seen a number of companies launch web voice services at low costs.

The report timing just happens to coincide with more relevant news from TruPhone. Earlier this month, the company launched their voice calling client for a non-phone in the iPod Touch. However the iPod client was limited to other TruPhone members on the iPod Touch or Nokia handsets. Today, TruPhone announced a new feature for the client, enabling your iPod Touch to call any mobile phone or landline in the world over WiFi at reduced calling rates.

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