The eventual evolution of VoIP is going to break into the mobile market and go mainstream sometime very soon… unless networks start banning VoIP but that’s just stupid. The idea behind mobile VoIP is to make and receive voice calls over your data plan. With unlimited data plans standard with most carriers, this means unlimited calling without using up your minutes. This is a great concept but at some point most carriers will offer, just like Sprint and Helio, an unlimited anytime calling plan that is very cost competitive ~$99/month. So what then is the next great thing about mobile VoIP? I think it has everything to do with seamlessly integrating corporate IP PBX systems with business cell phones… and as mobile applications are more widely used I’m sure we’ll see some VoIP integration with mobile apps.

I just wanted to plant some ideas here but also want to discuss fring™which at the moment looks like the best mVoIP company out there. fring™ is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using your handset’s internet connection rather than costly cellular airtime minutes.

There are other mVoIP companies like jajah but fring doesn’t charge anything for their service. As far as I’m concerned, my favorite thing about fring is that I can call my dad in Australia using the skype client from my mobile phone and it doesn’t cost me a penny!

What I really want to see is integration with fring’s SIP client and Asterisk. This would be a huge feature add for a large company using an Asterisk based IP PBX. I just sold myself. Maybe we’ll make this part of our Asterisk based IP PBX solutions…. let me get some engineers working on this pronto!