Nimbuzz Links up with Voxbone for Call-Through

Mobile social network Nimbuzz has linked-up with Voxbone to deliver low-cost VoIP calling even when WiFi is not available. Nimbuzz support a variety of platforms, including iPhone and Symbian, and deliver integration of messaging services like Skype, MSN and GTalk, as well as VoIP-based services usually based around the WiFi or 3G data channel of the mobile phone.

Voxbone will be providing numbers for Nimbuzz, to provide a local access number so that phones can also make a regular PSTN call to a call-through gateway, to provide low-cost calling even where a WiFi data service is not available. In-country geographic calls are often included in mobile call packages, effectively still allowing a free call. Voxbone will also be converting to VoIP to deliver to Nimbuzz.

Tobias Kemper, Nimbuzz head of communications :

“We wanted Nimbuzz to be a truly mass-market application, not one limited to this mobile platform, or that network, or a particular click sequence. By adding the DID numbers supplied by Voxbone, we can provide reliable mobile VoIP outside of Internet range and over 2G networks with any Internet-enabled handset and no change in user behavior.”

Voxbone offer an API to allow applications to automatically obtain DID numbers for 50 countries. They are also the company behind the iNum virtual country code, +883.

Reply from Nik on Jul 14, 2009 - 05:00 PM

Wow! From now Nimbuzz mobile works without Wi-Fi or data voice. Calls routed by local access number with cost and quality of regular cell phone calls. Tested, buggy,outgoing caller ID is not always detected, but I think is resolved in the future. How about 3 UK with Skype enabled?

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