SIPphone Releases Browser Based VoIP Calling Service
Source: smithonvoip.com
According to Web Worker Daily, SIPphone the company behind Gizmo Project, has released a web browser plugin that allows any web user the ability to make a VoIP call without the need for hardware, software, or even a service provider. Although they are not the first to offer this type of service (companies such as JahJah have been offering similar services for quite sometime), it is intersting to see a pure play VoIP provider offer different types of VoIP services.
On the whole, VoIP service providers have not offered numerous different kinds of VoIP calling. For the most part, VoIP providers have stuck with one micro-niche, whether that be peer-to-peer, residential, business, connection services, etc. What is most interesting about this news is that SIPphone is doing something to differentiate themselves from other service providers. Although this new service is not “new” and has been done by others, not too many service providers have multiple micro-niche voip offerings like SIPphone does. With this latest addition SIPphone now offers Plain Old VoIP Service (POVS), peer-to-peer calling and messenger (through Gizmo project), and now browser-based calling services. Many advise service providers to not be a “me too” and I think in offering multiple micro-niche offerings (even though they are not unique to SIPphone) makes them unique. Could this be the beginning of a new type of VoIP service packages? The Triple Play VoIP Service…
