Cellular phone to rival VoIP
Is the New Year going to herald a new trend, this sounds exciting to say the least. Megafone – have you heard of it? – is offering a cell phone with all the features that have had the public ditching mobiles and PSTN in favor of VoIP. The company is based in Jamaica and yet the local ISP manager at Anbell Telecom, a popular VoIP provider, does not know anything about it. One Mr. Tucker, who is apparently the manager at Megafone, has not been too forthcoming in talking to the media.
Does this open up the range of possibilities for a market-share war that I think it can? Why didn’t one of the big guys come up with the phone, the Nokias and the Samsungs with the money muscle to see an idea through and absorb some loss? If this works, Megafone could be huge, look up this company guys and invest in it while its stocks are still purchasable. It can also breathe a new life into the baby Bells struggling under the VoIP onslaught.
It was to be expected actually that sooner or later a telecom company would come up with a package to match VoIP offerings. Megafone will offer its customers mobility associated with cellular networks at rates far lower than those charged by VoIP. You can make international calls to selected countries for a fixed monthly fee. Freedom from relying on the internet to make calls is what Megafone hopes to make its USP; of course at VoIP rates. The Megafone cell phone which will cost $4,424 and an additional $900 for the first month of calls now costs only $1,500 on a special introductory rate.
Subscribe now with RSS to receive more tips, news and reviews!
January 30th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
this service mr.richard tucker manages will become the leading telecommunication service in jamaica. look at it almost every one has a digicel phone these days. if every one has a mega fone it would be unlimited speech nationaly and internationally for just $900+ tax jamaican dollars. and basically froma 10/8 perspective its just $10 dollars to call other networks execpt for miphone its just $5. the other telecoms in jamaica is losing millions right now on local calls much less international lol. internet services comming someand miphone settingup; more access points with 1x rtt to give them asuper high signal like(cingular raising the bars) unlike digicel’s vip freinds and family you call any on your network free while under a day ($50), week($400) or month($900) whichof course youwould realize that its the cheaperway to go if like making alot of overseas call. anyway as a former employee and aspiring distributer of this company i hope all the best for this company which is slowly taking over telecommunication jamaica