Truphone cures CLI snag with Out+

BRITISH BASED mobile VoIP specialist, Truphone, has fixed a problem it had with subscribers outside the USA or UK. Thanks to Out+, callers will appear to have a local number.

Truphone is a low cost voice service which enables those with Wi-fi equipped Nokia handsets to make free calls using VoIP technology.

In the USA and Britain, Truphone can assign users with a telephone number which makes them appear to be calling from a local fixed or mobile phone service.

The catch was that somebody who used the service in Sweden, however, would look like they were calling from the States - because that's the default country.

People being called by that Truphone subscriber might decline to accept the call because it looked like it was coming from America.

With the new Out+ feature that problem is fixed. It does so by 'spoofing' the subscriber's cellular phone number - even when the call is going via Wi-fi and not a GSM network.

The fix also offers 'carrier pre-select'. If Truphone detects that the person you're calling is up and running on the Truphone network, it routes it to their Truphone connexion not their GSM number.

Which is spiffing because Truphone to Truphone calls are free.

Truphone has also just launched another spiffing service which it is calling Intones. They're sometimes called caller tones.

Basically what happens is that when your phone starts to ring, instead of the standard bring-bring, you get to listen to a bit of music which Truphone has created.

The INQ particularly likes the Ska and Eurohouse versions. Unlike caller tones which you can set on your 3 handset, for example, there is still a ringing noise built into the Intone.

So callers won't hang up thinking they've dialled the wrong number.

Check out the Intones feature on Youtube here. µ