Soubds like snake oil to me.
The thing I like about PhoneGnome is I don't have to change my dialing habits. I just dial as normal, and if the call is free, then it makes it that way. Otherwise, it routes it over VoIP or my PSTN line as I've chosen.
Even "peer to peer SIP" isn't a differentiating enough technology to make this company even remotely interesting to me.
Posted by PhoneBoy at June 19, 2006 03:36 PMFusion was a small boutique carrier with a class V switch at its core and many IP pipes into mainly South American countries (if it is the same one from my telecom days). My interpretation of their DSP innovative technology is that they have compiled a database of ANI/DNIS that are valid in the PSTN world, thus making it "more secure" in that these ANI/DNIS can be called by PSTN numbers as well as peer between SIP endpoints.
I agree with Phoneboy, snake oil. Or failing that, a very unclever way of fooling the uninitiated in telecom.
Posted by Matt at June 19, 2006 08:53 PMYeah, one has to wonder how they got that story in Infoworld.
Infoworld put "free VOIP phone service" into the title. Give me a break. Pulver started offering this in what 2002 with FWD? Then there's SIPphone and now countless other, nearly identical, free SIP services out there (including our own GnomeNet: http://www.gnomenet.net)
"Once registered, the user is able to call any other Efonica user for free.
Calls to numbers outside Efonica's network are charged at a lower rate than fixed-line or mobile phones. For instance, Efonica calls to the United States cost $0.018 per minute."
So what's newsworthy here?