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With its newest software, Agito lets a cell phone user place a voice call as a VoIP data connection, over a 3G cellular network. The cost of cellular calls, especially those with international roaming charges, can be cut by as much as 80% in some cases, according to company officials.
Agito's focus is now less on a grand scheme for unifying all enterprise communications and more on managing and reducing cell phone costs. Cost control was the No.1 problem that enterprise users repeatedly and insistently harped on, according to Pejman Roshan, Agito's co-founder and vice president of marketing. "They were fixated on that one key problem," he says.
Do you have any idea how much money you're wasting on international wireless services?
The new release, Version 4.0, of Agito RoamAnywhere Mobility Router, and its corresponding handset clients, was designed to fix that fixation. The new code supports enterprise VoIP calls over 3G cellular networks, an industry first according to Agito executives, by the Apple iPhone and the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone. Agito earlier supported the BlackBerry Tour and BlackBerry Curve, and the 4.0 release also works with the Wi-Fi-only iPod Touch.
"Any enterprise with people traveling [with cell phones] can take advantage of this," says Paul DeBeasi, vice president and Research...