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Truphone announces Local Anywhere at MWC 2009

Truphone is in Barcelona for the 2009 Mobile World Congress (MWC) and today we held a press conference to announce an exciting new Truphone service: Truphone Local Anywhere™.

Truphone Local Anywhere is a single-SIM, multi-country mobile service that will make any mobile call within the set of supported countries into a local call.

The service will launch later this year.

You can download the presentation our CEO Geraldine Wilson made today at the MWC here (it is a large file, so is available via ftp. User Name = truphonepress and Password = serpresstru) - a video of the presentation will be available on this blog very soon.

AIM launches on Truphone's iPhone and iPod touch apps

We are excited to announce the launch of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), into the iPhone and iPod touch applications.

Now Truphone customers on both devices can reach their AIM friends via their AIM identity.

With the addition of AIM Truphone customers can now keep in touch with over 800 million addressable accounts for free.

The integration of this messaging service reinforces Truphone as the “all-in-one conversations hub” for iPhone and iPod touch users.

Truphone has already integrated Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger into its applications for these devices, blending a combination of voice and Instant Messaging across multiple IM platforms within one application.

“Our goal is for mobile phone users to be able to reach any contact in their address book or on their buddy list, in a low cost way, at any time, using just one application,” said Geraldine Wilson, Truphone CEO. “Today’s announcement means that Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users gain a great way to stay in touch with AIM users. We will continue to integrate further services and functionality, on other platforms too, giving people everything they need to stay in touch all within the Truphone application,” she stated.

Using Truphone to communicate with any of the supported IM services is free over the Internet. When not in Wi-Fi, Apple iPhone users can also make and receive calls and messages to and from Google Talk for the cost of a local call*, using the Truphone Anywhere feature.

You can download Truphone for the iPhone for free from here, and Truphone for the iPod touch for free from here.

 *Operator roaming charges will apply if users are abroad.

Top-Up your Truphone account on-the-go with PayPal

Truphone has today launched PayPal as an on-device payment option for iPod or iPhone users wanting to add credit on-the-go to their Truphone account.

Payments can already be made with a variety of credit and debit cards, and this addition makes it easy for people who don’t have such accounts to benefit from Truphone’s low priced calling rates to more than 200 countries around the globe.

Users can already easily top-up their credit while on the move (via either handset screen-optimised web pages or an automated IVR (Interactive Voice Response) based telephone top-up service) as well as via the My Account section of the Truphone Web site.

“As Truphone adds more new offerings to our suite of mobile services we wanted to increase the convenience factor for consumers by expanding the number of ways they can pay for those services,” said Geraldine Wilson, Truphone CEO.

If you are a Truphone user with PayPal, why not top-up your account now :)