Skype潜力无限 新软件让手机长途变本地

[ 2005-06-16 11:02:46 ]

　　一家名不见经传的挪威公司最近推出了一个新软件。该软件允许客户们使用自己的手机呼叫长途的Skype电话，而仅仅收取短途电话的费用。　　

这家公司名叫IPdrum。他们声称，用户可以通过他们的软件用手机呼叫自己的PC机，还可以用手机接收Skype电话。　　IPdrum的软件实际上使 用到了另外一个手机。其原理是将一台手机用USB接口链接到电脑上，并作为一个收发装置与用户随身携带的手机进行通讯。　
　
IPdrum的经理Kjetil Mathisen说：“你只需支付两台手机之间短途电话的钱就可以长途呼叫你的朋友。短途电话费通常十分经济，而且一些移动运营商还提供了指定号码电话的特殊折扣。”　
　
这个软件将于8月中在全球销售，价格大约在60～80美元。IPdrum已经在欧洲有了代理商，目前他们正在积极寻求亚洲和欧洲的代理商。


IPdrum will bring Skype to Mobile Phone users worldwideTuesday June 14, 5:51 am ET
Cable Connects Skype to your Mobile Telephone as early as August 2005
OSLO, Norway, June 14 /PRNewswire/ - IPdrum, a VoIP solutions provider, today introduced the IPdrum Mobile Skype Cable, a first and long awaited bridge between Internet telephony and mobile phones. The IPdrum Mobile Cable connects Skype to a mobile telephone via the mobile telephone network - allowing Skype users true mobility and worldwide calling for local rates.

With IPdrum and Skype, a user can call free of any long distance charges, world wide from his/her mobile phone. "Skype users today need to physically sit in front of their PCs or buy special cordless phones that must be used within a range of a few meters from the PC," says Kjetil Mathisen, CEO IPdrum. "These current Skype restrictions provide enormous market potential for IPdrum technology and solutions."

IPdrum has developed patent-pending technology to connect traditional mobile telephony systems with peer-to-peer (P2P) telephony. IPdrum Mobile Cable enables the user to Skype from his/her mobile no matter where he/she is.

"This marriage of technology will change the mobile phone network as we know it today, forcing the mobile carriers to re-think their international calling price strategy," says Jerry Pettersson, founder of IPdrum. "Just as Skype has changed the land line (PSTN) network landscape, the IPdrum Mobile Cable will further revolutionize the complete communication network."
Unlike similar products currently on the market, IPdrum Mobile Cable does not require any special phones, and it is not restricted to special "Hotspots" or zones where technologies such as Wifi are available.

In addition, IPdrum Mobile Cable incorporates a range of features and capabilities designed to increase convenience and performance when Skyping such as:
- Forwarding of incoming Skype calls to PSTN or a mobile phone
- Synchronizing of contacts from a mobile phone
- Synchronizing of contacts in Skype
- Connecting/Synchronizing contacts with Skype users

Skype, by far the most successful P2P VoIP solution, has clocked 100 million downloads as of April 2005 and is expected to have a major impact on the entire telecom industry. "We aim to be a leading supplier to Skype and other peer-to-peer telephony operators," says Mr. Mathisen.
About IPdrum
IPdrum is a supplier of innovative hardware and software to the new, fast growing and revolutionary market for telephony over Internet. The company's flagship product is IPdrum Mobile Cable. For more information about IPdrum, product availability and pricing, please go to http://www.ipdrum.com.