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Rok targets conferencing with Rok TalkThe company that brought you mobile phone TV, Rok, has soft-launched
Rok Talk. This Symbian app allows mobile phone users to make cheap
conferencing calls.
Talk is a mixture of GSM, VoIP and text. The app makes a simple voice
(GSM) call and Rok's servers then connect multiple other parties using
VoIP technology.
Bruce Renny, Rok's marketing guru, reckons Talk takes about five seconds
to invite as many as 30 other people to the same conferencing call.
A major attraction to this service is that it is absolutely free to
receive a mobile phone call from a Rok Talk user. Plus only one person
actually has to be running the Talk app - unlike Skype, for example,
where everybody needs it.
The service is currently in beta but expects to go live in about five
weeks. If you're fast enough, however, you can sign up to the free
trail. Just mention Mobile Software Insight in the comments box of the application
screen.
Presently, Talk only currently works under Symbian but a Java/J2ME
version is under construction and Windows Mobile will eventually be
offered.
Using Rok Talk is simple. Firing up the application causes it to read in
all the entries in your handset's addressbook.
Mark up the numbers you want to connect to - they don't have to be
mobile, fixed line works as well - and then press Start.
The handset then makes a call to Rok's servers. Next participants
receive a phone call and a text asking them to participate in the
conference call.
Press 1 and you'll find yourself hooked up. Voice quality is good as far
as Mobile Software Insight could tell.
Significantly, Rok's business model with Talk is network operator
friendly. Just like EQO and unlike Truphone, Rok doesn't anticipate any
carrier blocking it.
Rok is hoping that ordinary consumers will sign up to Talk which is
expected to cost around €3 per month - plus the cost of calls to fixed
lines.
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