MONTREAL-TeliPhone Inc., a subsidiary of United American Corp., said it has launched a dual-mode service combining its Voice over Internet Protocol platform with GSM technology.
The service, which uses TeliPhone’s Single Point of Contact FollowMe system, allows customers to alternate between wireless VoIP and cellular, said the company.
The service will officially launch Dec. 20, but it has been fully operational for two months.
The TeliPhone iPCS service is available in a single-device format as well as a dual-device format. Users of the single-device format have a personal digital assistant device that acts as both a wireless VoIP device and cellular phone, said the company. When the user is in a Wi-Fi environment, the call is answered via VoIP. When the user is outside a Wi-Fi environment, the call is answered via GSM network.
A user of the dual-device format receives a TeliPhone VoIP device, along with either a GSM Subscriber Identity Module card to use in an existing GSM phone or a new GSM phone.
