Fring = Skype, ICQ, MSN, GoogleTalk, AIM, Twitter, ... am Handy. Bei bestehender Datenverbindung (WLAN oder UMTS) können also Skype – Telefonate übers Handy geführt werden.
mobilkom austria = Austrian market leader with 4.3 million mobile customers and a market share of 42,5%. The mobilkom austria group stands for progress: The world’’s first launch of GPRS in Austria in 2000, one of Europe’s first commercial UMTS network in Austria in 2003, the introduction of EDGE technology as the first company in Slovenia in 2003 and the first to market introduction worldwide of HSDPA in the UMTS network in January 2006 and HSUPA in February 2007 in the UMTS network by mobilkom austria underscore the group’s leadership in innovations and technology. The know-how transfer among the companies and markets allows a rapid development and implementation of all products and services throughout the entire group.
Und nun gibt’s eine Partnerschaft:
Under the agreement, mobilkom austria will give its customers access to a dedicated version of the fring mobile client, containing fring’s entire open-platform, feature-rich suite of internet based mobile communications & community services, allowing A1 over IP users to talk, chat and interact with each other & all of their online communities, and access fun mobile web applications, using the internet connection capability of their mobile device.
Ich halte das für einen interessanten und mutigen Schritt. Die Addon – Schnittstelle zu A1 over IP ist übrigens auch schon im aktuellen fring – Release enthalten, auch am iPhone:
Die Blogosphere hat die Nachricht jedenfalls positiv aufgenommen:
