MobilePhone VoIP, Trend hits Triple Digit Growth.
One MobileVoIP Company amassed over 1 Million New clients
in just 3 months with virtually no advertising.
Full mobile functionality to mobile handsets is being intentionally disabled by mobile operators. Meaning you can’t use the handsets full set of capabilities.
Mobile VOIP providers can now provide fully functional stand alone mobile VoIP Java applications that can circumvent the mobile operator removal of built-in handset VoIP capabilities.
The mobile VoIP strategy is based upon empowering the user to make his or her own choices regarding their communication services. Mobile VoIP services across Europe now have been boosted by a network of 9,000+ hotspots and 16 large area, metropolitan networks, including such areas as the City of London, Canary Wharf, Manchester and Amsterdam.
The mobile network operators must be feeling very threatened by mobile VoIP especially with the new generation Java applications. In the short amount of time that this immerging Mobile VoIP technology has been in the market, place Mobile phone operators have already responded by removing the inbuilt VoIP capabilities that connect through GPRS, WAP VoIP and third party peer-to-peer messaging clients.
When mobile phone users select GPRS or WAP, there’s no real way of knowing what data is being transmitted wether it’s a photo or a brief packet of data to a VoIP callback server they cant tell and that why they are trying to restrict it.
Mobile VoIP developers have been dedicated to circumventing these obstructionist tactics by developing their own stand-alone mobile VoIP JAVA applications as well as providing access to large scale wireless networks to the benefit of mobile phone users with savings of up to 90% on normal call rates.
Mobile phone operators need to realise that these defensive tactics are not to their benefit and that attempts to keep mobile VoIP out of the market place amount to nothing less than a public announcement that mobile operators intend to continue overcharging consumers for as long as they can get away with it.
Mobile phone service suppliers have are concerned that the mobile VOIP is in HYPER growth with Mobile VoIP providers in triple digit growth over the last 12 months. Some companies reporting 186% growth in 3rd quarter of 2007.
A recent report that emerged on Mobile VoIP appears to be trying to establish guidelines that mobile operators should follow in disabling mobile VoIP features from new handsets sold under contract subsidy.
This really does beg the question of why the operator is disabling anything when the whole point of providing contract subsidies is to get a minimum $ term contract with the user.
If the mobile operator decides that the subscription plan and contract length provide enough revenue to warrant a subsidized phone, what possible grounds do they have to justify tampering with and restricting the capabilities of the phone?
The user should be able to do whatever they want with the phone as they have already signed a contract that guarantees the mobile operator sufficient revenues to justify them giving him or her the device in the first place.
There is an elephant in the room that no mobile operator or regulatory agency seems to be acknowledging – network neutrality. When Vodafone decides, as of June 1st, to prohibit their users from using third party applications for services like instant messaging, VoIP or text messaging, they are effectively censoring their user’s ability to choose what services they want to access from a network that they are paying for.
Imagine if an internet provider blocked access to Google because they wanted to force you to use their own search engine, on which incidentally you had to pay a charge for each search. As wild as it sounds, this is a direct parallel to what is happening right now in the mobile arena.
Three things you can do to protect your freedom, privacy money you spend.
- Pay the extra to buy a phone out right that is not locked, blocked or restricted in its functionality in any way.
- Buy a phone that does not have what is called 911 programming for phone tapping purposes by govt agencies. Yes in most phones sold today, there are inbuilt codes at the program level of the phone that can be activated by Govt agencies should they want to keep tabs on you.
- Get a JAVA application on your phone that can save you a small fortune on call costs.
- www.vyke.com
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