Truphone today announced Truphone Out+, a new feature that enables free and VoIP-rate calls to be made from a customer's existing phone number. Truphone Out+ also brings carrier pre-select to Truphone customers, ensuring free Truphone-to-Truphone calls are set up whenever possible.
Core facts
- Truphone Out+ is accessible to new customers from countries where Truphone does not yet provide local mobile numbers. Currently this means countries outside of the UK and USA.
- For these new customers Truphone Out+ means that a customer's existing phone number is now displayed as their 'calling line identification' (CLI) when they make a Truphone call.
- Carrier pre-select is achieved transparently: when a Truphone call is made the Truphone servers recognise if the 'ordinary' telephone number being called is linked to a Truphone account. If the destination user is online, a free Truphone-to-Truphone call is setup.
- Truphone is a mobile operator for the internet age, delivering a UK-based service accessible from around the world. Truphone Out+ is an evolution of the Truphone service. Truphone Out+ will be evolved to a full Truphone service as and when one or more of the following conditions are met:
- number portability becomes possible in a country;
- E.164 compliance is implemented in that country;
- Truphone introduces a local number range in that country.
Truphone is actively working with national regulators and operator partners around the world to bring about one or more of these conditions. - A customer can opt to make any call over GSM rather than via Truphone, if they prefer to do so.
- Truphone Out+ is not yet available for existing Truphone customers.
- All existing Truphone customers can continue to make free and low-cost mobile VoIP calls over Wi-Fi and the internet. Truphone-to-Truphone calls are always free.
Quotes
James Tagg, Truphone's chief executive officer, said:
- "Truphone Out+ will encourage access to the Truphone service from countries where we have not yet introduced local number ranges. At a stroke we have massively increased the number of people who can access and benefit from the Truphone service."
- Background: E.164 explanation
- Picture: making an internet call on a Nokia E65 handset
- Picture: making an internet call on a Nokia N95 handset
- Picture: making an internet call on a Nokia E61i handset
- Truphone-supported handsets
- Picture: James Tagg, Truphone CEO
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Truphone VoIP calls are free between on-net (SIP-registered) Truphone-enabled handsets. Use of third party Wi-Fi access points may incur charges. Use of Truphone over a 3G network may incur data charges payable to the provider of that network.
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