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By: Cherry Lets You Make Calls without a SIM Card « Cellphone News and Review

Cherry Lets You Make Calls without a SIM Card « Cellphone News and Review — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:50:12 +0000

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By: Cherry, le nouvel opérateur mobile qui combine GSM et WiFi ! « Le blog de Vincent Battaglia

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By: Jack Fiedl

Jack Fiedl — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:38:06 +0000

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They’re back!

By: Cherry: l’opérateur GSM qui n’a pas peur du Wifi | BelgoIT

Cherry: l’opérateur GSM qui n’a pas peur du Wifi | BelgoIT — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:38:46 +0000

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By: andy

andy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:23:48 +0000

Maybe it’s worth adding:

the other day, I called home from another country

nothing unusual about that, but this was using VoIP over 3g or EDGE mobile data ………. ok, perhaps still not that unusual

with ever more generous mobile data packages, perhaps the ability to switch to wi-fi will become redundant

(unless contention problems occur due to selling off mobile broadband so cheaply the networks have trouble affording more capacity)

By: andy

andy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:13:42 +0000

Just to add:

the other day I made calls home using a mobile network in another country

nothing unusual about that, but the call was via VoIP using data on 3g or EDGE …… ok, perhaps still not that unusual

with ever more generous mobile data tariffs that will allow sufficient calls, having the ability to switch to wi-fi starts to become redundant

By: andy

andy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:55:32 +0000

The stage demo is not impressive at all, and only shows the writer hasn’t a clue about, let alone tried out the behaviour of a Nokia smartphone without a SIM card.

Anyone at all can achieve this underwhelming feat.

In so-called Offline mode, my Nokia E51can still make SIP calls using wi-fi.

The whole of the demo as described can be achieved by using a VoIP provider which allows setting of outgoing caller ID.

Can TechCrunch please employ less naive writers?

By: meyerjr

meyerjr — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:42:13 +0000

Now would be a good time to mention that DiVitas Networks has an “ahead of its time” mobile unified communications system that is shipping and has been installed at sites in North America and Europe/UK.
I have seen it do seamless call hand-offs between GSM and WiFi automagicly both in a hosted and enterprise server-based configuration. Check them out, too.

By: Joy Schwabach

Joy Schwabach — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:33:47 +0000

Two years ago, T-Mobile came out with “Hotspot @Home,” which also lets you initiate a call in a wi-fi zone and switch to cellular without incurring charges. See: http://www.nyti...ml?pagewanted=2

and http://theonlyp...oneyouneed.com/.

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Rosa J.C. » Blog Archive » La telefonía que desearía tener — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:40:20 +0000

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Interesting Reading #310 – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:56:42 +0000

[...] Cherry, The Mobile Operator That Doesn’t Care Whether You’re On Wi-Fi Or Not – “Then the company’s CEO got up on stage, introduced himself, took out his Nokia smartphone, called some random guy in the audience and had him call him back on his phone afterwards. Projecting his mobile phone screen on a bigger screen for everyone to see, he demonstrated how he didn’t need to launch an application and just browsed his contact list to call the other person. Standard functionality, sure, but the cool part of it was the fact that the phone was lacking the presence of a SIM card, which is supposed to identify you as a subscriber of a telephony service…” [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:19:23 +0000

“The chances of me being genuinely amazed at something I see a Belgian tech company achieve are rather slim.”

This is one of the most stupid comment I have ever read.

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By: Schjlatah

Schjlatah — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:10:07 +0000

This is pretty cool, but T-Mobile has been doing this in the states for a while now. I had that on an older Nokia flip phone 2 years ago.
I loved it, especially since I get terrible cell-signal in my apt., but have my own WiFi network in my living room. I just wish that my iPhone did that, or if they would just package the handoff software and sell it as a software product, I’d buy that in a second.

By: Avec Cherry, le Wifi devient votre meilleur ami. | Wow Effect !

Avec Cherry, le Wifi devient votre meilleur ami. | Wow Effect ! — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:41:16 +0000

[...] Actuellement en phase Beta chez divers bloggers, Mondial Telecom a annoncé la semaine passée l’arrivée de son offre “Cherry“. En gros, Cherry est un nouvel opérateur mobile en belgique qui va révolutionner l’usage du GSM. En effet, Cherry switch de façon transparente entre réseau cellulaire et Wifi afin de vous offrir le meilleur à moindre coût (plus d’info sur TechCrunch). [...]

By: Markus Göbel

Markus Göbel — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:11:55 +0000

Not the first. German company Wifon presented the same Wifi-GSM-VCC yet 2 years ago, also on Nokia Eseries.

By: Kevin C

Kevin C — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:51:42 +0000

Sounds exactly like what Orange (run by France Telecom) has been offering for a couple of years now. I work for an telecommunications consultancy and I just happen to be coming off a research topic on just this subject and I’ll be frank, guys, this is nothing new. The tech has been around for years and carriers like AT&T and Verizon are just finishing up revamping their infrastructure for it. Seamless handoff between VoIP and cellular calls is driven by a technology called IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) that the carrier must first implement, which is why Cherry is an MVNO. Whatever carrier it’s renting network time from will have the exact same capability. If i were an investor, I would definitely be looking somewhere else.

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By: Cherry – Wifi « RedLegg

Cherry – Wifi « RedLegg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:16:27 +0000

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By: No Contracts

No Contracts — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:55:42 +0000

Confusing story. Reads like a Verizon mobile data contract.

By: Inca

Inca — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:29:26 +0000

Hi Benoit,
this is nice. They are a Mobile operator or and ITSP ?
Cellcom has more than 3 million subscribers and I thing is one of the first to take this approach as a mobile carrier.
The subscriber uses its own mobile number to make and receive calls over WiFi, don’t need to change provider / telephone number while roaming.
That is a huge advantage !!!!

By: Wozny

Wozny — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:12:57 +0000

Nope, it was UMA technology, not IMS/SIP.

By: nyasha

nyasha — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:28:03 +0000

@robin
Hey Robin, this is brilliant. Yes as usual someone else has done this and that’s why the marketing flash stuff is important to differentiate.
How do we get a hold of these guys?

By: Benoit Mazuyer

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:41:43 +0000

Inca,
Another recent example of VoIP provider that is providing calls over Wi-Fi from the mobile is Vyke.
In June they released their Vyke-Mobile solution, it has great rate and good quality.
https://www.vyk...om/Mobile-VoIP/

The SIP client of the application comes from a UK company, Pragmaticomm Limited. http://www.prag....com/mvoip.html

Benoit

By: Cherry: Yet another mobile voice over IP operator, this time in Belgium | mowbee.com

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:12:04 +0000

[...] And here is an interview with Cherry CEO Bernard Noël De Burlin, Telco Service Manager Davy Van De Moere, done by Robin Wauters from Tech Crunch: [...]