{"id":6102,"date":"2007-11-20T12:08:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T12:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/packet8-mobiletalk.html"},"modified":"2007-11-20T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T12:08:58","slug":"packet8-mobiletalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/packet8-mobiletalk.html","title":{"rendered":"Packet8 MobileTalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/mobiletalk.jpg\" \/>Having seen invention after invention and new technology after new technology come along I can say I have begun to appreciate some of the more simple things in life. Don&rsquo;t get me wrong, I like complex technologies such as the iPhone allowing one to surf the web in a fashion which comes close to a laptop browsing experience.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">But I realize that some technologies are too complicated for mass adoption and as such I appreciate simple solutions like Skype which anyone can use.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Having said this, when I found out Packet8 has developed a new solution named <a href=\"http:\/\/voipservices.tmcnet.com\/feature\/articles\/14838-packet8-going-mobile.htm\">MobileTalk<\/a> which allows long distance VoIP calls to be made by mobile phones I could not help but be excited. Why? Well because I am very much aware of how difficult it is to call international numbers with a calling card.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I spend a good deal of time in the car and it is a nightmare to dial long international numbers including calling card while driving. I subsequently don&rsquo;t make as many international calls as I normally would because of the pain associated with dialing.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">And yes, of course I know I can program the long sequences into my phone and yes, I know how to program. I just choose not to.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">So I am very happy to hear Packet8 has developed a solution which downloads an application to smartphones and automatically connects the call via their network. They save you money and save you from having to dial a calling card number followed by a long international number. In the end; these are the exact things many of us need in a mobile long-distance solution.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having seen invention after invention and new technology after new technology come along I can say I have begun to appreciate some of the more simple things in life. Don&rsquo;t get me wrong, I like complex technologies such as the iPhone allowing one to surf the web in a fashion which comes close to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,199,118,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}