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Cheap Mobile Calls in Canada

By Erik Lagerway | January 15, 2008 | Canadian VoIP Startups, Cheap Mobile Calls Canada, Conferencing, Erik Lagerway, Group Calling, Instant Messenger, Podcasting, voip api, VoIP Podcast | Comments Off

I had a great conversation today from a new Lypp user who was blown away by the Lypp mobile calling service that is current being offered at Lypp.com. The one thing that this gentleman kept reiterating was that mobile calling in Canada is so costly and how Lypp service all of North America for one low price.

It was so great to have some positive feedback on the service and I hope they will be even happier when they see the new features we are unleashing in February.

Next month we will be launching a new Next Generation Conference Calling service but at the same time we will be enhancing the current mobile offering at Lypp.com. Lypp mobile calling users in Canada will soon be introduced to a host of new features that we believe will enhance their mobile calling experience, at no extra cost.

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Free Lypp Service

By Erik Lagerway | August 27, 2007 | Group Calling | Comments Off

Lypp - Free Group Calls

Lypp is a new calling service that uses IM and command line commands to create one-to-one calls and group calls. By sending a simple command from AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, Gtalk, or ICQ like "call 6045551212, 7035551212", users can create a quick group call. It will be launching in September. It will be Free.

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Group Calls vs. Conference Calls

By Erik Lagerway | August 15, 2007 | Group Calling | Comments Off

When we talk about conference calling pretty much everyone in the business world can relate. Picture a speaker phone (probably Polycom) in a board room with people speaking into it and voices coming out of it, fairly straightforward.

So why are we now calling it Group Calling? According to Wikipedia Group-calling is..

..similar to conference calling, is a means of communication where the calling party wishes to involve multiple parties. In comparison to conference calling, all parties involved in a call always have the opportunity to participate actively. Alternatively, group calling also functions as a means of leaving voice message to defined groups. The calling initiator calls a number that identifies the caller and inquires the caller as to which of the caller’s defined groups the voice message should be sent to.

Hmm, we may need to revisit that definition as it seems to have evolved a bit since it was written.

Today it seems that conference calling and group calling are terms that are almost interchangeable. I think group calling would apply to smaller conference calls that are more adhoc in nature and are not unnecessarily business oriented. The term group calling also seems to be used more in reference to mobile group calls and infers a less formal experience as opposed to traditional conference calls that have more participants and are generally business oriented. 

Now you know, err or at least you know my opinion. 

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