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Telecommunications UK retail giant Tesco launches Freshtel mobile VoIP service - UPDATED
Telecommunications UK retail giant Tesco launches Freshtel mobile VoIP service - UPDATED | UK retail giant Tesco launches Freshtel mobile VoIP service - UPDATED |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 02 September 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 A key attribute to the service is that users retain their normal mobile number and this is what the called party sees even when the call is made as a VoIP call over WiFi. Freshtel's ability to offer this in the UK is the result of long negotiations with the regulator. It said at the launch last November that it was holding similar discussions with the Australian regulator, the ACMA.Freshtel project manager, Greg Snow, told iTWire this week that this would be a feature of the Australian service, and that the company could see nothing in the regulations to preclude it. "It could be a problem if you were spoofing someone else's number but we require authentication to confirm that the customer actually owns the number," he said. Well known US blogger Om Malik reported last month "[Nokia] seems to have developed cold feet, and some of its new handsets, such as the new N78, are not VoIP compatible anymore." However O'Donnell said "This has not been confirmed by Nokia and it would be unlikely that they would remove functionality that there customers want." Snow added that, as Freshtel develops its application on the underlying Symbian platform, it would not be affected by a move by Nokia to simply remove access to the VoIP functionality from the user interface. Freshtel said in May that its R&D team was working with a number of handset manufacturers to broaden the range supporting TalkWifi. Snow said that the company hoped to announce details before the end of the year.
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