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Yet another entrant joins mobile VoIP app market
WCell International, a Hong Kong-based VoIP calling platform for mobile devices, announced its application is now available for download on a variety of mobile operating systems. The application currently is compatible with BlackBerry, Java, Windows Mobile and Symbian, among others, and it is pending approval by Apple for listing in the iPhone App Store.
WCell, which has been bootstrapped with investment from its founders, said it can offer comparable or better voice call quality than its many competitors in the mobile VoIP applications world, while simultaneously delivering cost savings against leaders such as Skype. It said it will attempt to differentiate from the likes of Skype, fring, Nimbuzz and Truphone by targeting retail handset sales. The company aims to have 10 million paying customers of the service by November, and it will have to rapidly expand and compete with all the other entrants in the space if it to reach its goal.
For more:
- see the Venture Beat article here
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Comments
Posted by Annus | July 14, 2009 - 5:45am
WCell have to do some wonders in VoIP industry to take their share from such huge competitors like Skype, Truphone, Vopium.
Posted by Pete Wylie | July 14, 2009 - 8:49am
It certainly is a crowded segment, let's see if WCell's plan to pre-load on handsets is successful; that's also something easier said than done.
Posted by Adam | July 21, 2009 - 11:44am
WCell is up for auction at flippa.com. Saving 95% doesn't seem to be a very sustainable business model. The other thing I don't understand is exactly how long people believe the telcos will go before they prohibit VOIP over wireless networks like 3 & 4G. They already do that with Skype. Only way I know to use Skype on 3G is to jailbreak my iPhone. Not exactly "main stream" people. ;)
Posted by Sama | August 8, 2009 - 8:18am
I tried wcell.com and quality sucks like hell and it counts more minutes even if your call is ended and it also messed by mobile.. may be some short of virus or something like that. Its better not to use their mobile applications because they use much memory
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