Sometimes we stop ourselves from making a call because of cost. The cost of a call on a traditional phone network is usually linked to the cost of carrying signals and audio over long geographical distances. Advances in network and software technologies allow service providers and voice carriers to reduce their own costs to offer these services. This cost reduction to the carrier leads to competitive tactics ranging from the simple lowering of price to complex policies such as the waiving of “In Network” fees. This type of “progress” has become very repetitive and is still limiting.

Many times, without realizing, we stop ourselves from making a call simply because we believe we cannot reach the network we wish to use. Our company has standards based SIP telephones and users, however I must still have a legacy n-digits number to reach my colleagues from my mobile. This should change and we at RingFree are bringing this change to you today.

This problem of “I cannot really try to call from here” occurs most frequently on mobile networks. Many have already realized the value of calling standards based internet voice networks from mobile handsets. I have read about several recent large investments into companies that connect devices to only one popular proprietary internet voice network. Most of the solutions I observe being offered are all focused on adding other network services such as WIFI to the phone, and special software to the phone that will interact with yet another network, one at a time.

Mobile phones liberate callers from specific geographic locations but not from the towers they use to transmit your voice. Other advanced VoIP technologies available today still have us tethered to our broadband connections. These two worlds are creeping together with a very awkward combination of technologies that allow some networks to be reached in certain circumstances.

The iPhone did a great service to telephony in general by not making the telephone user interface (TUI) the main interface for the handset user. RingFree is expanding on that idea by removing the phone’s voice network limitations. Today we are a bridge to those who wish to call a friend on a voice network such as GoogleTalk. Geographically that friend can be anywhere in the world. The iPhone is a device that has respectable Internet capabilities, and we leverage that for our subscribers. With RingFree our subscribers can reach contacts on an internet-based voice network when they are geographically near or far away. The geography and type of connectivity of a mobile phone consumer should not force them to pay terrible fees. We are establishing our service to not only remove these limits, but also to improve our subscribers’ call experiences with the capabilities of their advanced handsets. Please stay tuned to our efforts. There is definitely more to come.