CAMBRIDGE, MA – September 20, 2006 – iSkoot, the leading service
provider for mobile Internet communications solutions, today
announced that its iSkoot Mobile Network, a gateway connecting
cellular and PC-to-PC networks, is now offering global coverage
for over 30 countries worldwide. With the newly deployed iSkoot
Mobile Network, people from around the world will be able to
place and receive calls with online buddies from their mobile
phones without any need for PCs, special hardware, custom phones
or Wi-Fi hot spots.
To take advantage of the new global iSkoot Mobile Network,
users need only to download a small piece of client software
to their mobile phones. The iSkootMobile phone application
for Skype Software is now available for free download to your
phone at go.iskoot.com and www.iskoot.com.
"We are extremely excited about extending our iSkoot Mobile
Network around the world, giving the vast majority of the Skype
user base mobility. Our US launch was very successful and there
has been strong demand from international users for worldwide
support. The Skype phenomenon is global. Skype calls are especially
beneficial in making international calls and lowering costs
substantially. With this announcement we will be making iSkoot
available in over 30 countries with support for many additional
countries coming soon. Our goal is to rapidly bring true mobility
to people everywhere," said Roy Erez, Vice President of Business
Development, iSkoot.
The iSkoot Mobile Network frees Skype users from their PCs.
It provides an on-ramp to the PC-PC network for cell phone
users. With iSkootMobile client software on their mobile phones,
users can make Skype calls to their online buddies without
ever having to use their PC or a broadband connection. Once
cell phone users download the iSkoot software to their regular
handsets, they will be able to do everything they normally
do with Skype at their PCs, but now they can take all of Skype's
functionality with them on their mobile handsets anywhere they
go. iSkoot delivers true mobility, even away from Wi-Fi hot
spots.
The iSkootMobile phone application for Skype Software is available
for free at www.iskoot.com and go.iskoot.com. Users can simply
download the small-footprint iSkootMobile phone application
to their handsets, log onto their Skype accounts, and start
calling and receiving calls from their online buddies on
their mobile phones. When a user selects a contact to call,
the iSkootMobile software on the handset communicates with
iSkoot's carrier-class server. The server then connects the
call using Skype's Voice over Internet service so that the
user only pays for air time on the mobile phone. If the user
makes a SkypeOut call, it works the same way, but the user
also pays SkypeOut minutes, just as if the call were made
from a PC. When a user receives Skype calls on his or her
handset, SkypeOut charges also apply.
About iSkoot
San Francisco-based iSkoot brings leading internet services like Skype to mobile handsets around the world, delivering rich consumer experiences with minimal impact on operator networks.
iSkoot launched the first and only carrier-grade, carrier-deployed Skype-for-Mobile application in 2006, and now powers the Mobile World Congress award-winning 3 Skypephone currently sold in eight countries on three continents.
iSkoot takes advantage of the voice-optimized circuit-switched network for delivery of voice communications, in keeping with its mission to engineer elegant and operator-friendly solutions to the challenge of bringing resource-intensive internet services to mobile handsets.
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