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October 04, 2011

VoX Communications Releases VoIP App for Android Users

VoX Communications, which delivers wholesale VoIP telephone services for the residential and small business markets, has released a VoIP app for Android phone and tablet users. VoX, a subsidiary of Pervasip, said that the new app has some rather interesting features that are not available with its counterparts.

Pervasip's Chief Information Officer Mark Richards said that the app will give the company significant exposure as it will be available to over 100 million Android smartphones globally, providing unlimited calls and text to VoX users at cost-effective rates. In-Stat estimates that the number of mobile VoIP users will approach 300 million by 2013.

Richards, enumerating the advantages of the new app over other VoIP apps, stated that VoX becomes available in the phone's primary dialer with just a single touch. Even the process of registering with VoX when WiFi was turned on can be automated and unlike the Skype app, users don't have to sign in every time. The sign up process for subscribers is said to be more simple, easy and hassle-free than that offered by many of VoX’s competitors.

The mobile VoIP plans start at $4.95. VoX also offers 500 minutes for $9.95 and $29.95 for unlimited calling to the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.

As a result of the new interface, the company stated that it can tailor the plans to offer a $1 plan that reduces a consumer's cash balance only when calls are made. Pervasip also intends to offer similar creative calling plans to those offered recently by Vonage and also intends to offer them at competitive prices.

Pervasip has big plans for the future, according to Richards, as the company is considering adding a video calling feature to the product by the end of 2011. If this happens, then connections can be established between an Android phone and an Ojo Vision video phone. A tablet video app that offers superior video calling to the Android market is also in the offing.

Richards said, “We have the ability to easily update plans offered, and we intend to be creative with target audiences that are looking for fixed blocks of calls for a fixed dollar amount rather than charging a monthly fee for services that people don't always use.”

In other news, LightSquared, a wholesale carrier building a nationwide wireless broadband network, signed a multi-year wholesale agreement with VoX Communications to provide VoIP services for consumers and businesses.


Mini Swamy is a contributing editor for MobilityTechzone. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin


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