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mig33 Reaches One Million Mobile VoIP Users |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Tuesday, 29 August 2006 |
Mobile VoIP service mig33 came out from the shadows today
revealing it has accumulated more than one million users on its call-back VoIP
service.
The service, started by a company called Project Goth, is
the brainchild of Mei Lin Ng and Steven Goh. Goh started Sanford a financial services business
that delivers stock reports via WAP.
To use the mig33 service you must first visit the company's website and
download a java application for your mobile phone. You also need to sign up and
buy credits.
Once you are all signed up and activated you can send free Instant
Messages to MSN Messenger & Yahoo Messenger, send standard SMS at A$0.10 or
make phone calls at reduced rates.
To make a phone call users must SMS their own number and the
number they want to call to the mig33 server. It then dials both phones to make
the connection.
This set-up makes the calls cheaper, especially for
International calls. For example calls from an Australian mobile to a mobile in
the United States
are billed at A$0.203 it's the same price going back the other way.
According to the company, users can save up to 95 per cent on
their international calls and roaming costs depending on their originating country.
The service was launched in December 2005 and has reached
one million users across 200 countries.
Co-founder Mei Lin Ng said: "Every day, mig33 users are
sending several million messages over our mobile Chat and SMS services, and
placing tens of thousands of phone calls through our global VOIP network with
calls being connected through our infrastructure in Australia,
the United Kingdom, Hong
Kong and the USA".
Mobile
go to http://wap.mig33.com or visit http://www.mig33.com
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