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Truphone, the provider of software that allows you to make free or cheap calls via Wi-Fi on your mobile phone, has raised £16.5m ($32.7m) of Series B venture capital funding. Truphone’s Series A investors – Burda Digital Ventures, Eden Ventures, Independent News & Media and Wellington Partners – participated in the Series B round.

I have used Truphone to make free voice calls on Wi-Fi networks using my Nokia mobile phone, especially when I’m traveling, to avoid nasty roaming charges. Recently,…

If you have an iPhone, you can now make free VOIP calls over Wi-Fi, thanks to Fring, an application that has been available for devices such as Nokia’s Symbian phones. According to Fring, they are the first “native” mobile VOIP application for the iPhone. This is very handy for iPhone owners who are traveling abroad and want to avoid roaming charges when they make voice calls.

SunRocket, Inc., the second-largest supplier of Voice over IP in the U.S., cut service to its more than 200,000 customers without warning on Monday.

SunRocket, Inc., the second-largest supplier of Voice over IP in the U.S., cut service to its more than 200,000 customers without warning on Monday.

One of those customers would be me. I subscribe to both SunRocket and Vonage (its rival, the largest U.S. VoIP company with about 2.5 million subscribers). I was able to make calls yesterday but…

If you ever wondered whether Wi-Fi and VOIP were disrupting of old worn business models, look no further than the dirty war being waged by the UK arm of T-Mobile against Truphone, a mobile VOIP provider. I use Truphone regularly and this just makes my blood boil. Truphone, a mobile VOIP operator, is battling the UK arm of T-Mobile whose latest tactic is to kill off cheap mobile phone calls with a “T-Mobile policy decision” that denies access to cheap…

In theory, Voice over Internet Protocol is one of the applications that should make a wireless network a wise investment for municipalities. By using VoIP, cities should be able to save money: It’s a lot cheaper to make free calls over the Internet versus paying for calls over traditional landline or mobile phones.

This article originally appeared in the June 2007 issue of MuniWireless Magazine.

By Cyrus Farivar

A Potential Killer App For WiFi, But Not Quite Ready For Prime Time

In theory, Voice…