The revolution of telephony that Skype brought is, is now coming to mobile phones with Fring (www.fring.com). We spoke to Roy Timor-Russo on some issues regarding their product and technology.

Stocknews.ch:  Does the user need an unlimited or flat rate GPRS with his operator?

Fring: [Roy] the service is designed for 3G in terms of latency, yet you can you
use it with GPRS. Second, obviously cost wise flat rate is the most
beneficial, though operators in different countries vary in their price
per MB.

Stocknews.ch: Are the operators not inclined to start to block traffic they see is
coming from this app?

Fring: [Roy] Though technically they can, we don't think they will; from pure
competition and bad PR concerns

Stocknews.ch: How many people are already using this software?

Fring: [Roy] many :-)

Stocknews.ch: Do you offer it any country - as is suggested by the list of countries
which one can select from? 

[Roy] in any country there is Internet access (Mobile) the service is
available, and free of charge.

Stocknews.ch: Why are mainly Nokias and not Samsungs, LGs etc supported?

Fring: [Roy] Currently we support mainly Nokia due to the fact that they do have the
majority of user base and addressable market. In parallel we are working on
adding additional leading OEMs .

Thanks to Roy Timor-Russo, VP Product Marketing, Fring.com

fring is about bringing freedom to mobile communication 

fring™ was born from a concept of giving people the benefits of the internet combined with the user-culture of mobile telephony. Originating from a vision of freedom, fring gives you simultaneous freedom of speech and freedom of movement. Freedom to use your mobile phone to its greatest potential. Freedom to seek alternative mobile carriers. Freedom to communicate without boundaries. Freedom to enjoy your mobile independence.

fring™ is focused on one simple target. Greater value for the individual.  fring does this by harnessing the power of the internet to enable simple daily communications at a non-proprietary, no-cost level.

fring is building a community for mobile communicators like you and me who are unhappy about being tied to a single provider and being taken advantage of by the all-powerful telcos. fring offers a simple alternative to communication by innovatively leveraging telecommunication systems that optimize internet and mobile environments to serve your telecommunication needs – for free!

The fring™ Mobile VoIP solution is designed to optimise the embedded internet capabilities within the subscriber handset. The fring™ solution establishes a Peer-To-Peer VoIP connection between calling parties, enabling true VoIP sessions between fring enabled handsets and also between handsets and PCs.

fring™ is based on a unique thin-client technology that for the first time enables true VoIP over 3G networks. fring™ dynamically adapts itself to the network and handset characteristics while enabling seamless roaming VoIP on multiple networks. The dedicated three-side P2P network architecture has been developed to support near telco-grade voice quality and network efficiency.

fring™ leverages the internet connectivity traditionally used for mobile Email retrieval and web browsing to provide mobile-VoIP communications so users can talk and instant message for free!