Fring aims to cut cell phone costs with VoIP

Opinion
Feb 19, 20071 min

Latest VoIP news.

3GSM – Fring aims to cut cell phone costs with VoIP, 02/16/07

Avi Shechter, co-founder and CEO of Fringland (Fring), could be on to something big with the launch of a cheap Internet-based phone service that runs over mobile networks. But the Israeli entrepreneur could also be in for the fight of his life with mobile phone network operators determined to protect their cash-cow voice business from virtual service providers.

Nortel, IBM to collaborate on multimedia telecom apps, 02/15/07

Nortel will resell IBM blade servers as part of an agreement announced by the companies this week to collaborate on developing converged multimedia telecom applications.

Vonage subscriber growth slows, 02/15/07

Vonage Holdings Corp. lost less money in the fourth quarter of 2006 than a year earlier, but it didn’t attract as many new subscribers to its VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service despite heavy marketing.