24 January 2007
Offering home-users an 'all-you-can-eat' style voice over internet protocol (VoIP) service for just £39.95 a year, Mobiboo believes that its Dashboard technology could mark the end of expensive landline tariffs.
The Dashboard is a downloadable piece of software which provides subscribers with their own Mobiboo phone number for incoming calls – which stays the same wherever you are in the world – and an easy-to-use interface allows users to instantly click-through to dial contacts in an address book.
Instant messages can also be sent and received via the service, including messages with photographs and word documents attached to them.
Martin Heath, Mobiboo's chief executive officer, said: "Consumers are recognising the cost-savings of using internet-based phone services. What Mobiboo unveils today is the alternative to other fixed, mobile and VoIP services – and it's easy to use and has superb sound quality.
"While anyone can offer 'free calls' to customers on their own networks, Mobiboo is going a step further, as the first company to offer such a low-cost package that includes calls to UK landlines from anywhere in the world," he added.
And its not just landline calls that are cheap; under the new tariff, Mobiboo will only charge minimal prices for international calls, including a penny per minute calls to the US and two pence per minute calls to Hong Kong.
"The key message for users now is that they can save hundreds of pounds a year by simply re-thinking the way they make calls and using Dashboard instead of their landline to keep in touch," concluded Mr Heath.
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