What happens when you voip is mobile or is not tied to one provider? It causes headaches for a number of reasons. In the United States it is 911, and the UK 999 service that presents more problems. In both areas many people discontinued their home phone service in favor of cell phones and voip. In our home town a lightning strike knocked out the cell phone tower, but many phones switched over to WiFi. (We are a free WiFi hotspot provider for our town.)

The United States continues to regulate services as if nothing has changed. Thinking like the old days when almost everyone had a home phone, recent regulatory changes now demand enhanced emergency services, or E911. It is a huge problem for mobile voip providers.

The global credit crunch is causing problems in the VoIP and Internet telephony community. It seems that funding, start-up money, and investors left some companies in a pinch. One such company is EQO. EQO was/is a VoIP/social networking play offering a free application that provides free IM, cheap calling and cheap texting to your mobile phone. The problem is EQO was like about a dozen other companies on the market with the same business plan triangle of free client/cheap calls/on mobile phones, including Jangl, Jajah and TalkPlus.

Also in this mix is Jaxtr. Some companies are dying a clow death, others are gone, and Jaxtr just released Jaxtr 2.0. See more about Jaxtr.

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Free Conferencing Corporation, best known as freeconferencecall.com, has added private dial-in numbers to its SimpleVoiceBox and SimpleVoiceCenter services. To learn more about Free Conferencing visit Free Call Info.

Private number provides a direct route into the service without access codes or extra digits. The expanded offering includes a full-featured voice mail service with online account access, phone or web admin, multiple configurations that allow users to use the voicemail as a broadcaster, email notification of new messages, daily activity reports with a caller ID capture feature, unlimited outgoing greetings and no limits on incoming messages. A single voice mail box is available for $4.95 per month with unlimited multiple voice boxes available for only $9.95 per month.

Over the weekend, the one million registered users to Free World Dialup (FWD) were told that free is no longer free. After 12 years of free operations, users will be asked to pay $30 per year as of September 1, 2008. The announcement also named Daniel Beringer, as CEO of FWD.

In an email sent out on Friday by FWD founder and VoIP pundit Jeff Pulver, the $30 yearly fee is being justified as a “magic number” that is only “10%” of the cost of Vonage’s unlimited usage plan. However, Pulver has disavowed any connections with old style telephony and the PSTN, vowing not to chase per-minute arbitrage for lower-cost long distance calling as Skype, Jajah and others have done.