PhoneGnome for iPhone and stats released

PhoneGnome launched iPhoneGnome, for using PhoneGnome on your Apple iPhone. The dialer leverages technology from friend Marcelo Rodriguez’s RingFree project, another very cool free service that also lets you use PhoneGnome on your iPhone.

PhoneGnome also put out some interesting stats on real-world usage by PhoneGnome users, showing a steady increase in on-net (pure IP to IP) calls. While two-thirds of minutes are still destined for a PSTN user, only a quarter of those are using the traditional carrier (the rest being delivered via VOIP services). Almost one-third of minutes are terminating to an IP end-point. Whether that means a 33% decrease in revenue for the telephony industry or whether it means people are just calling more, is not clear.

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The Gnome is out of the bag

Although the formal press release launching the company doesn’t come out until Tuesday July 19, I’ve been scooped!

So the PhoneGnome project is now a public affair. It is an upgrade vs. switch approach to VoIP that tries to combine the best of Vonage-like VoIP (inexpensive calling to any phone using normal phone numbers and real telephones), Skype-like VoIP (totally FREE calls), and traditional telephony (reliablity, 911, local calling benefits, and compatibility with TiVo, Satellite dishes, home alarm systems, etc.).

At the very least, let’s see if we can shake some things up!

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