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Article: United Kingdom: BT squares up to Google Voice with Ribbit Mobile.
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- November 5, 2009
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Byline: datta03
Industry comment Carriers may be watching Google Voice with trepidation, especially as it goes mobile, but one unlikely telco is determined to make sure the search giant does not have it all its own way. British Telecom has extended its Ribbit internet telephony platform to cellphones (despite having no mobile network of its own) with the unveiling of Ribbit Mobile.
This is a cloud-based service that combines internet voice, smart call routing and voicemail transcription. It builds on a proof of concept mobile service, Amphibian, which Ribbit developed in 2007 before it was part of BT. As with the disruptive Google Voice, users can ...