Business-class VoIP services provider, Junction Networks today revealed its OnSIP Hosted PBX users can now download the mobile Internet community and service, fring.
By Michelle Robart
The addition of fring to Junction Networks enables mobile users to dial extension-to-extension calls within their PBXs and place calls to the PSTN as if they were using an office desk phone. When connected via Wi-Fi, users can receive calls on their mobile devices when someone calls their extensions.
fring allows its users to communicate with other fringsters and their favorite Internet services including Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo!, AIM and hundreds of SIP providers from their mobile devices.
“We have always envisioned a day when mobile users could be completely untethered from their corporate desk phones,” said Mike Oeth, Junction Networks CEO. “Now, with fring and OnSIP, users can stay connected to the corporate phone system from anywhere a Wi-Fi connection is available, using only the phones in their pockets.”
According to Oeth, OnSIP was created especially for the SMB market in an effort to give smaller companies an affordable PBX system.
“Now these same SMBs—and their road-warrior employees—can enjoy the flexibility of making and receiving calls through their OnSIP hosted PBX service even while traveling,” explained Oeth.
Users will love that extension-to-extension calls using OnSIP and fring are completely free; consumers just pay for data used on their existing mobile agreements. Completely PC independent, it requires no additional hardware and no location limitations (e.g., Wi-Fi hotspots).
Junction Networks claims to never charge for extension-to-extension calls, and since calls are made over a Wi-Fi network and not a cellular network, calls do not use mobile minutes. This means that users can make and receive calls even if they are in an area with little or no cellular reception.
Boaz Zilberman, co-founder and chief technology architect, fring, stated, “fring prides itself on being a best-of-breed mobile Internet communications and community application, offering its users the ability to talk, chat and interact with fellow fringsters and all their online buddies using their mobile Internet connection.”
Zilberman added, “Partnerships with forward-thinking companies such as Junction Networks offer a new level of openness and connectivity and provide a glimpse of the future in which mobile Internet and traditional telecoms converge to provide as rich and flexible a user experience as possible.”
Besides working with the iPhone, Junction Networks OnSIP through fring also works with phones running Symbian OS, Windows Mobile, UIQ and via Linux on the N810, as well as with any PC using a compatible IP softphone. For a list of fring-compatible devices, visit http://fring.com.
For information on configuring mobile devices to use Junction Networks OnSIP with fring, visit: http://www.junctionnetworks.com/knowledgebase/onsip/devices/phone-configuration/fring.
In January 2007, the Beta version of fring was made publicly available. fring operates on Symbian Series 60 devices, Samsung S60, Sony Ericsson UIQ Smartphones, Windows Mobile, iPhone, J2ME, Linux Mobile and Intel’s Moblin devices, which currently represent more than 1000 mobile handsets (the full list is available at http://fring.com Web site). The fring community includes users across more than 200 countries.
As one of the largest providers of business-class VoIP services to small and medium-sized enterprises, Junction Networks provides high-end, multi-functional, Internet-based communications options that adapt to the needs of the growing business.
Junction Networks' ability to leverage open standards, such as SIP, enables it to seamlessly integrate new functionalities into existing, scalable platforms. This allows the company to provide enterprise-class broadband voice and data communications at an affordable price.
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