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VoIP-News
How to Use EQO's Mobile VoIP Service
This client software makes cheap overseas calling a matter of scroll and click.
May 8, 2008http://www.voip-news.com/feature/how-use-eqo-mobile-voip-050808/
GoMo News
Chat with Bill Tam CEO of EQO Communications
February 28, 2008Click here to read full article
IntoMobile
February 12, 2008http://www.intomobile.com/2008/02/12/eqo-expands-its-mobile-voip-service-globally.html
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/02/12/eqo-expands-its-mobile-voip-service-globally.html
Telecom Redux
Talking in Packets
February 2, 2008It is not a question of if voice over IP or VoIP is going to be the mainstream voice technology for mobile communications, but when.
http://www.telecomredux.co.uk/content/view/5107/10/
The Inquirer
Eqo puts twist on cheap mobile calls
October 12, 2007 by Tony Dennishttp://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/12/eqo-puts-twist-cheap-mobile
T3, The Gadget Website
Free phone credit for all! Install EQO on your mobile, invite your friends and get free minutes and texts for every one you convert
October 3, 2007TMCnet
EQO Launches "Free Your Friends" Promotion
October 2, 2007http://www.tmcnet.com/comsol/articles/11771-eqo-launches-free-friends-promotion.htm
Emerging Trends: Cell Phones
October 1, 2007“EQO is an amazing asset for businesses”
http://ittrends-cellphones.blogspot.com/2007/10/eqo-communications.htmlSeptember 2007
Tech Talk With Craig Peterson
Bill Tam from EQO talks with Craig (Audio)
September 30, 2007http://podcast.tech-talk-with-craig-peterson.com/index.php?page=19
Overseas Filipino Worldwide
EQO Launches Free Mobile Messaging Services Worldwide
September 29, 2007Sourcewire.com
September 29, 2007"EQO Launches Free Mobile Messaging Services Worldwide"
http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=iizELSmall News
September 27, 2007‘The new EQO’
http://www.small-news.com/smallnews/technology/the-new-eqo.htm/TelecomPaper
September 26, 2007"EQO launches free mobile messaging software"
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?id=185642&nr=&type=&yr=2007CMP – Collaboration Loop
September 26, 2007"EQO Launches Free International Mobile Messaging Services"
http://www.collaborationloop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2282&Itemid=45Information Week
September 26, 2007"Mobile phone users can send messages for free to friends around the world with EQO's offering."
http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202102035Highlands and Islands Enterprise
September 21, 2007"Just when you thought you’d got your head round your new mobile phone, along comes an EQO (echo)".
http://www.hie.co.uk/default.aspx.locid-0finewlk0.Lang-EN.htmMy-India
September 18, 2007"New software enables international calls through mobiles using Internet"
http://www.my-india.net/cgi-bin/n/viewnews.cgi?newsid1190090402,91969,Malaysia Sun
September 18, 2007Canadian company offers free mobile phone calls
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/283459/cs/1/Calls to mobile phones are becoming cheaper, if not free, in some countries.
A Vancouver based company has developed software which when downloaded to a cell phone, uses the Internet to make cheap calls
The model is similar to Skype, which allows users to make calls over the Internet from their computers.
The Vancouver outfit, EQO, works on standard mobile phones that have basic Internet service.
EQO users are able to call mobile phones for free, whether or not they live in the same country.
Presently, EQO is available in 29 countries throughout Europe and the Middle East but should be available in 60 countries by the end of 2008.
Montreal Tech Watch
September 8, 2007‘EQO has built a very compelling communications suite for the mobile phone’
http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/09/08/day-2-at-red-herring-canada-a-roundup/Insight
September 8, 2007‘EQO Offers Low Cost Mobile Calls to Italy’
http://www.insightbuilder.co.uk/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1171Informazione
September 5, 2007Chiama il Regno Unito a tariffe strabilianti con EQO
http://www.informazione.it/pressreleasepub.aspx?prid=20f81439-7b63-428f-a0ea-f793884ecc4cComunicati-stampa
September 5, 2007Chiama il Regno Unito a tariffe strabilianti con EQO
http://www.comunicati-stampa.com/2007/09/chiama-il-regno-unito-tariffe.html451 Market Insight Service
September 4, 2007"Startup EQO Communications Looks to Play in the Consumer Mobile VoIP Space" - click here for PDF
That’s News
September 3, 2007"Cheap mobile calls between Italy and the UK - Free Mobile Software Offers UK to Italy Calls for 1.2p/min."
http://thatsnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/cheap-mobile-calls-between-italy-and-uk.htmlVNU
September 3, 2007Ormai è Eqo mania
http://www.vnunet.it/it/vnunet/news/2007/09/04/ormai-eqo-maniaThe Inquirer
September 3, 2007Alternative Phone Service Takes off in Italy
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42092ComputerWire
September 3, 2007EQO Mulls Cheap Global Roaming for Any Cellphone
http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=B57A6CDA%2DDB6A%2D4192%2DBBFC%2D752BA57E4444Business in Vancouver
September 3, 2007VoIP goes mobile - Vancouver company’s application helps mobile phone users cut long-distance costs
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September 2007 "Communications, Evolved" http://laptopmag.com/Features/Top-Cell-Phone-Apps.htm?Page=6Red Herring
Video Interview with Bill Tam
http://www.redherring.tv/eqocommunications.htmAugust 2007
Mobile Marketing Magazine
Innovation Honour for EQO Co-founder
August 29, 2007http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk/2007/08/innovation-hono.html
TPI (telephone-par-internet)
August 24, 2007“Le tout IP sur mobile avec Eqo”
http://www.telephone-par-internet.com/index.asp/t/2/news/836intomobile
August 24, 2007 by Dusan“EQO frees Canada”
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/08/24/eqo-frees-canada.htmlWinnipeg Free Press
August 24, 2007 by Geoff Kirbyson“New firm uses VOIP to cut cell phone rates”
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/business/story/4027918p-4638924c.html49 Things
August 21, 2007 by Mattias Johansson“My first EQO.com experience.”
http://49things.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-first-eqocom-experience.htmlResourceShelf
Lists & Rankings: TR35, 2007 Young Innovators Under 35
August 16, 2007Mobile News
VoIP Provider EQO Taps Migrant Market
August 13, 2007http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/News/4463/voip_provider_eqo_taps_migrant_market.html
EE Times
August 16, 2007 by Nic Mokhoff“Do you hear an echo?”
http://www.eetimes.com/blog/news/archives/2007/08/do_you_hear_an.htmlDiscovery News
International Phone Calls: Pricey No More
August 2007"EQO (pronounced "echo") Communications has developed software that, when downloaded to a cell phone, uses the Internet to make cheap calls, locally or abroad."
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/09/14/webphone_tec.html?category=technologyMobile News
VoIP provider EQO taps migrant market
August 2007"New mobile VoIP provider EQO is targeting London’s migrant population, which numbers around two million people"
http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.ukJuly 2007
Todmaffin.com
July 25, 2007"Bill Tam, EQO's CEO, is interviewed by Tod Maffin, the CBC's national technology columnist - video"
http://www.todmaffin.com/blog/eqoDigital Streets
July 3, 2007"EQO Mobile=Free IM from your Cell Phone"
http://blogs.tech-recipes.com/shamanstears/2007/07/03/eqo-mobile-free-im-from-your-cell-phone/Computerwire
July 2, 2007"BlackBerry Gets Eqo Support"
http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=164B98FF%2D8AC5%2D4F38%2DA59A%2D9FE436047805June 2007
Telecoms.com
June 29, 2007“Internet phone specialist EQO Communications has announced that its EQO Mobile application supports the Blackberry Pearl, Curve and certain other handsets from Canada's Research In Motion.”
http://www.telecoms.comThe Register
June 29, 2007 by Bryan Betts"BlackBerry gets free international calls"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/29/eqo_on_blackberry/StartupSquad.com
June 26, 2007 by Vivek Puri"EQO drops Skype; Makes a great comeback"
http://startupsquad.com/2007/06/26/eqo-drops-skype-makes-a-great-comeback/TIME Magazine
June 21, 2007 by Jeremy Caplan"The iPhone Dials Up the Competition"
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1635816,00.html?imw=YSan Francisco Chronicle
Numbers are adding up for international callers
June 21, 2007 by Ryan Kim"Internet services help to cut customers' phone bills"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/21/BUG63QIL3U18.DTL&hw=EQO&sn=001&sc=1000
May 2007
Forbes.com
May 23, 2007Int'l Calls On The Cheap?
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/tech/ms_billtam052207&partner=emailNokia.com
Featured Application - EQO Mobile
May 23, 2007http://www.nokia.com/link?cid=EDITORIAL_228996
EQO MobileEQO (pronounced "echo") Mobile is a global calling service that can save you up to 95 percent on the cost of international calls to anywhere in the world. If a person you invite joins you in using EQO, you can both talk for free -- no matter where you are. Essentially, EQO places international calls using your local minutes. This means that you don't incur any international call charges from your mobile operator. When you join the EQO service, EQO will automatically install and upload your contacts so you can start calling. In addition, upon sign-up, you'll automatically receive up to 100 free minutes of international calls.
With EQO Mobile, you get access to the lowest international calling and messaging rates in the world. For example, a call from the U.K. to a landline in the U.S. could cost 1.468 euros ($1.95 USD), while the same call using EQO would be 0.178 euros ($0.24 USD) -- saving more than 87 percent. Similarly, a text message from Italy to Germany typically costs 0.50 euro ($0.66 USD). With EQO, it would cost 0.115 euro ($0.15 USD), thereby saving 77 percent. In addition, with EQO Mobile, you get free access to all of your favorite instant messaging (IM) services, including Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Jabber, Yahoo! Messenger, and Windows Live Messenger. Calls and text messages sent to other EQO Mobile users in 20 countries will count only against your mobile operator's local voice and data rates.
EQO Mobile's application is available for a wide variety of Nokia Series 40 and S60 devices, including both S60 3rd Edition and S60 2nd Edition devices. For more information, and to download EQO Mobile, visit www.eqo.com.
EQO CommunicationsEQO Mobile is a product of EQO Communications Inc., of Vancouver, British Columbia, and London. EQO Communications is a startup financed by GrowthWorks Capital Ltd., BDC Venture Capital, and Ventures West Capital Ltd. More at www.eqo.com.
TechCrunch
May 23, 2007EQO Launches Mobile VoIP/Chat/Messaging Client
http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/eqoLAPTOP Magazine
May 23, 2007EQO Mobile Launches, Giving You a Mobile VoIP Solution
http://laptopmag.com/News/VoIP/EQO-Mobile-Launches-Giving-You-a-New-Mobile-VoIP-Solution.htm
Telecoms.com
May 23, 2007EQO brings VoIP to mobile
http://www.telecoms.com/itmgcontent/tcoms/news/articles/20017427148.htmlCheap mobile calls threaten channel tarrifs
Microscope
May 28, 2007A cheap way of making international calls from mobile phones launched last week could cast a shadow over the tariff business that has been put through the channel in recent years.
It is not yet clear how operators will respond to the service - called Eqo - which could eat into their profitable roaming revenues.
However, Todd Heintz, senior vice president of product management at Eqo, said: "They might see it as a way to increase local call revenues from foreign students and others who usually save their international calls for Skype or their home landline."
The user logs on to www.eqo.com and enters their mobile phone number. They then click on a link- sent to their handset - which downloads the Eqo software.
The mobile phone user call anyone else with the Eqo service for the cost of a local call. Calls are cheap because they are transmitted over the internet for most of their journey.
If the recipient does not have Eqo or is on a landline, the caller pays another 1p or 2p a minute for calls to the US or Western Europe.
Telecom.com
EQO brings VoIP to mobile
May 23, 2007Internet telephony player EQO Communications took its service offering to the mobile space on Wednesday, promising savings of up to 95 per cent on international calls.
But rather than taking on the multitude of players in the VoIP over wifi space, like Truphone or Gizmo, EQO is targeting the truly mobile customer base.
EQO Mobile is powered by a software application that sits on the device. When a call is placed, all the call initiation and signalling, presence and messaging is made on the data network, while the call is carried over the circuit switched network.
In this way it differs to offerings like Fring, which send all traffic over the data network and can help users sidestep restrictive data packages which ban VoIP calling.
In a nutshell, calls and SMS' between EQO users are free, while international calls are charged at local call prices.
Simon Edelstyn, general manager of EQO Europe, told telecoms.com, "The benefits of VoIP have not fully translated to mobile because the user experience is not as easy as it could be."
Edelstyn believes the user experience needs to be "click to call" without the friction of setting a device up or finding a hotspot. Although it does not support it at present a VoIP over wifi version of EQO is in the works.
Mobinaute
EQO Mobile : logiciel mobile qui veut révolutionner le coût des appels à l'international
EQO Mobile : Mobile Software that Seeks to Revolutionize the Cost of International Calls
May 23, 2007
EQO Mobile : Mobile Software that Seeks to Revolutionize the Cost of International Calls http://www.mobinaute.com/74026-eqo-mobile-logiciel-mobile-revolutionner-cout-appe.html
synopsis : EQO program offers three different functions. The first one allows to use a universal customer of immediate, compatible messaging at the same moment with Yahoo Messenger, AIM, Windows Live Messenger or Google Talk. The second allows via a system of intermediate local number, to call fixed numbers of the foreigner for the price of a local communication
Métro
Eqo, le Skype du téléphone portable?
EQO, the Skype of Mobile Telephones?
May 23, 2007
EQO, the Skype of Mobile Telephones?
http://www.metrofrance.com/fr/article/2007/05/22/18/4235-38/index.xml
Synopsis :
Eqo launches announces better than Mobile Globe: EQO offers an international call for the price of a local call, if both users have the software Eqo Mobile.
Full articleEQO, le Skype du téléphone portable? / EQO, the Skype of Mobile Telephones?
L'arrivée de services utilisant la voix sur IP révolutionne la téléphonie mobile. La société canadienne Eqo lance ainsi une offre où les appels internationaux sont au prix des locaux...
Les tarifs de la téléphonie fixe chutent depuis plusieurs années. Avec la VoIP (appels qui utilisent Internet), les prix en local et à l’international ont baissé (de nombreuses destinations sont désormais incluses dans les forfaits des fournisseurs d’accès).
Le phénomène devrait être le même sur le téléphone portable. Récemment, une société française, Mobile Globe, a lancé une offre proposant des appels à l’international pour un coût global à peine supérieur à une communication locale. Le Canadien Eqo, qui lance son offre aujourd’hui, annonce mieux : un appel international pour le prix d’un appel local, à partir du moment où les deux utilisateurs disposent du logiciel Eqo Mobile.
300 modèles compatibles
Un logiciel qu’il suffit de télécharger à partir du site Internet Eqo.com. Une fois la compatibilité de votre téléphone vérifiée (Eqo serait compatible pour le moment avec 300 modèles), et votre numéro entré dans l’interface, vous recevez un SMS avec un lien cliquable. Lorsque vous cliquez sur ce lien, vous êtes connecté à un site Wap qui vous permet de télécharger le logiciel.
Appels gratuits
Avantage d’Eqo : il est complètement transparent pour l’utilisateur. A la différence d’autres logiciels existant ou des cartes pré-payées qui existent déjà sur le marché, l’utilisateur compose le numéro de téléphone de son interlocuteur. Si celui-ci a déjà installé Eqo, l’appel est alors facturé au prix d’un appel local. Sans que l’utilisateur ne s’en aperçoive, la communication est acheminée vers le numéro d’un serveur de l’entreprise, puis redirigé vers le réseau de l’opérateur. Si l’interlocuteur ne dispose pas d’Eqo, l’appel est légèrement plus cher qu’un appel local (+ 2 centimes, par exemple, pour un appel vers l’Allemagne). Autre avantage : le logiciel importe automatiquement les contacts déjà présents dans le téléphone.
Points d'interrogation
Restent néanmoins quelques points d’interrogation. Le secteur mobile est complexe et il faudra à Eqo régler les problèmes de compatibilité, afin que tous les terminaux ou presque puissent utiliser son service. Autre question : comment vont réagir les opérateurs mobiles classiques, qui se verraient là privés d'une source de revenus non négligeable...
PC Welt (GE)
EQO: Sparen bei Handy-Gesprächen ins Ausland
May 24, 2007http://www.pcwelt.de/news/handy_pda/branchen/81511/
Synopsis:Article about the new EQO mobile service resulting from the interview with Bill Tam. The article describes how the service works and how users can install and use it.
voipinfo(GE)
Neuer VoIP-Dienst für internationale Handygespräche
May 23, 2007http://www.voip-info.de/news/newsartikel__3651.php
Synopsis: Article about the new EQO mobile service – based on the press release.
LA STAMPA.IT
Telefonare dal cellulare risparmiando
(Calling from mobile phones saving money)
May 23, 2007 by Valerio MARIANI
Synopsis: The article describes the service and the numerous advantages for consumers with a particular focus on cost savings for calls in Italy, giving also some examples of costs for calls toward other European countries.
MYTECH.IT
Voip mobile semplice e conveniente: arriva EQO
(Mobile VoIP simple and convenient: EQO is here)
May 23, 2007 by Giulio BORESA
http://www.mytech.it/cellulari/articolo/idA028001068729.art
Synopsis: The article describes the EQO Mobile service with a particular focus on its compelling features including sending and receiving texts messages and IM at local calling and messaging rates.
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