{"id":10388,"date":"2012-04-27T01:26:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T23:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=10388"},"modified":"2012-04-29T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T20:30:12","slug":"making-mobile-voice-services-better-and-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/10388\/making-mobile-voice-services-better-and-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Making mobile voice services better and cheaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Internet Solutions\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2038-Internet-Solutions\">Internet Solutions<\/a> has already launched a mobile <a title=\"voice over IP (VoIP)\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2382-VoIP-Voice-over-IP\">voice over IP (VoIP)<\/a> service named mVoIP, and is working on further innovations to improve their fixed and mobile VoIP products. This is according to <a title=\"Wayne Speechly\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2386-Wayne-Speechly\">Wayne Speechly<\/a>, executive of communications at Internet Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternet Solutions is working on various initiatives to develop and launch practical mobile VoIP solutions. We see this as a key element in our fixed-line VoIP and mobile VoIP market offering,\u201d said Speechly.<\/p>\n<p>Internet Solutions\u2019 current mVoIP product provides a full mobile VoIP offering, but is limited to available <a title=\"Wi-Fi\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1629-Wi-Fi\">Wi-Fi<\/a> and WLAN networks. This is a constraint which Internet Solutions is addressing.<\/p>\n<p>Speechly said that the company is exploring opportunities using 3G\/4G wireless technologies for its mVoIP service, which will provide a more ubiquitous mobile voice experience. \u201cThe MVNO option is definitely part of the ideal architecture,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur plans are strongly focused to drive innovation and product development in the mVoIP space using all best options, as this is a key building block in our Unified Communications as a Service and Enterprise Mobility strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speechly is very positive about the future of voice over IP products and services: \u201cThe future of voice is definitely IP\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Speechly, the medium and network is not too important when it comes to mobile VoIP services. \u201cThe experience and cost to the subscriber is the primary business driver. This is where the medium and network links into the discussion,\u201d concluded Speechly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/9723\/reunert-trying-to-shut-appchat-down-john-holdsworth\/\"><strong>Reunert trying to shut Appchat down \u2013 John Holdsworth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Holdsworth explains cheaper costs and legal threats\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/47734-reunert-trying-to-shut-appchat-down-says-john-holdsworth.html\"><strong>Holdsworth explains cheaper costs and legal threats<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reunert takes legal action against John Holdsworth and AppChat\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/8498\/reunert-takes-legal-action-against-john-holdsworth-and-appchat\/\"><strong>Reunert takes legal action against John Holdsworth and AppChat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Voice over data and lower mobile call rates\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/8564\/voice-over-data-and-lower-mobile-call-rates\/\"><strong>Voice over data and lower mobile call rates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Solutions already has a mobile VoIP solution, but is working on more initiatives to boost their service offerings in this market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,97,2465,1707,2466],"class_list":["post-10388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-internet-solutions","tag-mvoip","tag-voip","tag-wayne-speechly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10388"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10398,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388\/revisions\/10398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}