http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/ Engadget Comments for Zer01 is the new, contract-less MVNO that will bring VOIP to the mobile masses http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/
What I'm wondering about is battery life. How much more juice will this use to always keep the data connection on and going? That could be the deal breaker.

As for the international calling/roaming plan for $10 more...I'd go for that too. Unfortunately, Japan isn't on that list.

Ultimately the connection will float between EDGE and 3G and that is enough for me and my phone. When I really need to get work done, ethernet, or WiFi are used along with liberal amounts of coffee.]]>Mar 13th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.zer01mobile.com/]]>Mar 14th 2009 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 17th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/
Maybe 5 years is pushing it]]>Mar 13th 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 17th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/'Cause details make the girls sweat even more
while they're shaking their belt
No need to ask my name
to figure out how cool I am
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cant we just use fring with skypeout ?
skype to skype calls would be free (hell, skypeout will even show your phone cID as the caller)
unltd data or limited (lets say half a gig)
and you can chat with your aim gtalk and msn contacts.....

it would seem that would work and all the tools are in place.
so why pay 70 bucks a month ? for what ?]]>Mar 13th 2009 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/
Not to be too contrary, but Hutchison/3 did that well over a year ago in the UK, Europe and Australia. Its been really great for me as an expat.]]>Mar 13th 2009 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/
On Verizon or Sprint, who's 3G data coverage is four times the size of AT&T's, this would make sense. Why in the world would they start this on AT&T?]]>Mar 13th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 13th 2009 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/Mar 14th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/
The good thing is that there is no contract, the bad thing is that it will only work on Windows Mobile and possibly Symbian, but since there is no VoIP client for Blackberry it will never work with them. If I could use an E71 for a service like this it would be perfect (or maybe another Symbian phone with a better radio).

The reliability of the service though might not be very good. VoIP over EDGE will be pretty bad and forget about GSM only coverage. Most of the carriers in the world should be able to do EDGE at least.]]>Mar 16th 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.buzzirkmobilezer01.com]]>May 10th 2009 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/zer01-is-the-new-contract-less-mvno-that-will-bring-voip-to-the/May 26th 2009 1:25PM