Mobile VoIP firm Skuku announced today that its Skuku service is now available throughout Israel.
Skuku products will be distributed in Israel by BUG Multimedia System Ltd. and can be purchased in all BUG stores countrywide, as well as at the Ben Gurion Airport duty free store.
Petah Tikva-based Skuku has developed a phone service called Skuku Roaming, allowing customers to place mobile calls and send text messages over Internet connections using their GSM mobile SIM Card, significantly lowering costs for mobile subscribers.
Skuku VP of sales and marketing Colin Blou said the company's chief demographic is business and leisure travelers who leave Israel and want to reduce their roaming charges.
Skuku is a USB handset or USB stick which, once a SIM-card has been inserted, requires the user to pay only their local airtime charges when making and receiving calls from their home country. Skuku’s unique solutions transform the user’s PC into his personal mobile phone, keeping all of the phone’s features and allowing low-cost VoIP. The feature allows the user to retain the phone's features such as contact lists and text messaging.
Skuku products enable the placing and receiving of international calls from anywhere in the world at low IP tariffs.
The Skuku Phone is priced at NIS 199 within Israel and will be sold for $40 at the Ben Gurion Airport Duty Free Bug store.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on January 22, 2009
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