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iSkoot Unties Internet Telephone Tethers
 
Start-up company iSkoot has set its sights on becoming a leader in enabling mobile Internet telephony service. iSkoot's service extends the reach of Internet telephony by allowing you to make and receive calls over the Web using any phone, including your mobile phone, essentially freeing your Internet telephone from your PC.

Essentially, iSkoot empowers people to be their own international carrier. Based on the PBX concept, where local calls are free, the service creates a gateway for people to make international calls over their PCs. Users initiate calls by sending a text message to iSkoot, which establishes the connection. However, the software is currently in beta and only allows incoming calls.

iSkoot software bridges the mobile and broadband networks to enable you to jump from one to the other and take advantage of Internet phone services for affordable, high-quality calls from and to any mobile phone over the Web. With iSkoot a mobile phone user gets the power of Internet telephony as part of their normal communications capabilities.

A user can download the iSkoot software and connect to an Internet phone service, such as Skype, from his or her regular mobile phone - no need for headsets, microphones, PCs, or USB phones. The first application of iSkoot enables users to use any mobile phone to access Skype's VoIP service and buddy system. Versions for other platforms and services, including AIM, Yahoo, and Microsoft services, as well as for Mac systems, are coming soon.

Once you connect with iSkoot, it works with your Skype buddy system to send or receive free calls from any phone, anywhere. iSkoot software also lets you access your home PC's Skype phone service with your mobile phone to make low-cost international calls. Users pay for Internet access as with other Internet phone services.

iSkoot uses proprietary technology and has eight Internet telephony patents pending. iSkoot provides personal VXML scripting for IPPBX applications, device connectivity, signal processing to ensure voice and data quality, and SIP client and DID allocation along with customer profile management.

While other mobile VoIP services lock you into a specific Pocket PC device or require a PC with Wi-Fi, iSkoot offers total ubiquity and provides a phone with mobile VoIP. Other mobile solutions can use an IM client, but the problem is that GPRS and even 3G cannot effectively support VoIP traffic. Alternative existing technologies, such as IPPBX, were not designed for use as a desktop application and do not support Windows.




 
BIOS, Aug 02, 05 | Print | Send | Comments (0) | Posted In Networking
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