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iPhone to Get High Quality Voice Over IP

Global Exchange, a leading provider of VOIP and web conferencing services, today announced that it has released a VOIP voice engine for the Apple iPhone, using the company’s GIPS Voice Engine. iPhone application developers can now create and integrate quality, real-time VoIP applications into games and stand alone VOIP programs. The “killer” VOIP app that most consumers would love to see, would be a VOIP application that would allow users to make local and long distance calls using VOIP services and bypassing the necessity to have the iPhone connected to any phone service other than the high-speed 3G access. These services could also be used by iPod Touch users when in a wi-fi hotspot.

Global Exchange CEO, Emerick Woods:

The popularity of the iPhone, along with the new integrated 3G chip that has increased internet speeds by 3-5x, makes it an ideal platform for developing applications that incorporate quality real-time VoIP, giving consumers real-world communication experiences like in-game, multi-person chat.

Global Exchange is recognized for its media processing expertise for web conferencing and IP communications and continues to innovate by enabling iPhone application developers to accelerate their time-to-market with applications that
include the best voice experience possible.

High-speed mobile phones is proving to be a very lucrative market.A recent Strategy Analytics forecast reports that 297 million mobile phones were shipped worldwide in the second quarter of 2008, an increase of 15% over last year. According to Apple, and other consumer companies, the demand for the 3G iPhone has been larger than expected. Three million 3G iPhones have now sold worldwide.

Global Exchange Voice engines have been downloaded more than any other voice engine worldwide, enabling developers to create high-quality IP-based communications, even when network conditions are less than ideal.