| Website | truphone.com |
| Blog | truphonepressoffi... |
| Category | Mobile |
| hello@truphone.com | |
| Employees | 40 |
| Founded | 1/00 |
| Sim4travel, 4/08 |
| Total | £29M |
| Series A, 1/07 Straub Ventures Burda Digital Ventures Eden Ventures Independent News & Media Wellington Partners | £12.5M |
| Series B, 4/08 Straub Ventures Burda Digital Ventures Eden Ventures Independent News & Media Wellington Partners | £16.5M |
Truphone develops mobile VOIP products for use by means of GSM/3G mobile networks and Wi-Fi/Wi-Max networks. Currently, the service is in its beta stage and offers VOIP and SMS-OIP. It has been around since mid-2006. Through the truphone application, downloadable via an SMS message, your mobile phone can make free VOIP calls and SMS texts whenever you call another truphone user. Version 3.0 (the latest) offers “presence” detection which alerts you when you can make free calls. Competitors in this mVOIP field are numerous and include Skype, barablu, ConnectMeAnyWhere, jajah, GizmoProject and others. Truphone secured compatibility with T-Mobile (which had blocked truphone previously) by court order on July 23, 2007.
| Website | truphone.com |
| Blog | truphonepressoffice.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | June 1, 2007 |
| Tags | voip |
Similarly to its competitors, truphone offers free mobile calls to other truphone users, but charges for all other calls. Dissimilarly, truphone is almost completely built with open source code. More about their technology follows, “Truphone calls are routed via Wi-Fi using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), as shown below. The RTP proxy deals with the Network Address Translation (NAT) used by firewalls, and with transcoding from the Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) codec used in the phone to G.711 if required for transmission to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) via the SIP router. The handset software is written in C++ on the Symbian operating system.” More technical information about truphone’s calling process can be found here. truphone is currently supported by Nokia E and N series phones with other symbian phones on the way most likely.
