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| TruPhone Takes Step Towards Global Service Truphone has 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: 1. 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. 2. For these new customers Truphone Out+ means that a customer's existing phone number is now displayed as their CLI when they make a Truphone call. 3. Carrier pre-select is achieved transparently: when a Truphone call is made the Truphone's 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. 4. 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. 5. A customer can opt to make any call over GSM rather than via Truphone, if they prefer to do so. 6. Truphone Out+ is not yet available for existing Truphone customers. 7. 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. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |