[IP] using VOIP to clobber international mobile roaming robbery

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby@henkel-wallace.org>
Date: January 28, 2007 11:11:33 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Cc: Bob Frankston <Bob19-0501@bobf.frankston.com>
Subject: using VOIP to clobber international mobile roaming robbery

Dave, for IP if you're interested,

It seems someone has decided to use the internet to clobber  
international GSM roaming charges, which are currently highway  
robbery.  These guys awayphone allegedly give you a handful of SIMs  
which give you a local number in each country you plan to visit and  
then use the internet to ship the calls back and forth (at least  
that's what they seem to be telling the press -- I couldn't find any  
actual technical mention on their web site).

If that's what they're actually doing it's yet another cool example  
of using the internet to do an "end-to-end run" around the telco  
oligopolies.

Credit: I was pointed to it by the following register article: http:// 
www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/25/awayphone/

-g



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