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February 24, 2009
voipGATE Offers More Belgium Connections
TMCnet Contributor
voipGATE announced that it has recently made more VoIP connections available in Belgium and that the tariffs are on a par with national rates.
For the record, the reserved numbers begin with 078 and calls are charged at $ 0.072 per minute during peak hours and $0.036 during non-peak hours. A few numbers in the series starting with 028 are still available for booking.
This Belgium effort follows closely on the heels of its offerings to Dutch and Austrian prospective customers. Customers can request a number by first creating an account with voipGATE (News - Alert), and then purchase the plan via its sales department. Numbers for Holland start with 085.
This completes voipGATE’s current phase of expansion for VoIP related services to USA, UK, France, Luxembourg, Denmark, Italy and Czechoslovakia. The company is based in Luxembourg and charges an overhead fee structure is $ 6.44 per month per number.
voipGATE is well aware of the explosion of Internet usage, as initially reported by TMC (News - Alert), and the concentrated global focus and impact of Wireless Broadband (Wi-B (News - Alert)) as recently discussed at the GSM Association’s Mobile World Congress 2009 held in Barcelona, Spain.
In an effort to keep pace with this global demand for VoIP and related services such as connectivity to Wi-B enabled phones, voipGATE allegedly plans to expand its offerings all over Europe, Asia and North America. It already offers numbers on-demand to customers in Japan, Spain, Romania and Hungary.
voipGATE’s softphone can be downloaded and installed on a computer or laptop and permits users to make and receive calls. Its user interface is easily customizable and exclusively created with HTML Web 2.0 principles.
Its Webphone is free and can be activated by logging into individual user accounts. It is a Java applet and the user account itself can be used as the softphone. It works on most operating systems and web browsers.
Its call forwarding enables calls to be forwarded to any phone number in the world and a single call may be forwarded to multiple numbers sequentially. Charges are only levied if forwarded to mobile or landline numbers.
With Fax2Email, faxes can be sent first to the softphone and then forwarded in a portable data format to a pre-recognized email id. The Callback feature allows calling from mobile phones at VoIP rates.
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Vivek Naik is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Vivek's articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Michelle Robart