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Do you have an iPhone but wish you could make/receive VoIP calls at certain times? Good, because sipgate is bringing you just that. This is especially important for making international calls as they can sometimes be as high as $3/min and eat away at your minutes with service charges from your provider. sipgate, like Skype, keeps the cost of making international calls down to dirt, about $0.01/min.

Click to read to read the entire announcement after the jump…

The full sipgate announcement:

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 4, 2008 - sipgate Inc. (www.sipgate.com) today
announces the immediate availability of a free application for the
iPhone, which, for the first time allows consumers to natively use any
VoIP service which uses the industry standard SIP.  Consumers can now
use their iPhones to make and receive VoIP calls from their devices over
a Wi-Fi Internet connection using a wide variety of VoIP providers. The
VoIP-enabling software is available from sipgate’s website
www.sipgate.com.

With the sipgate service, users can dial any number without using
minutes from a wireless plan. This is particularly useful when calling
to or from other countries, as call costs can be as high as $3 per
minute.  However, when using a VoIP service, costs can be kept as low as
$0.01 per minute.  sipgate is giving new users 111 free minutes for
domestic calls for users to test out VoIP usage on the device*.

Another benefit of sipgate is that consumers can use any domestic or
international number provided by their VoIP service on their iPhone.
This means that they can make and receive calls from different domestic
and international numbers, all on a single device.

Thilo Salmon, CEO of sipgate commented: “We love VoIP and we love the
iPhone so we are giving people like us who always wanted VoIP on the
iPhone the ability to use any SIP-based VoIP service they want.  We are
thrilled that Apple is opening up the iPhone and we look forward to
taking part in future application development.”

Salmon continued: “As a company we strive to make useful services
accessible to everyone.  There will be more innovation for businesses
and consumers coming from sipgate this year, so keep your eyes open for
more news.”

Graphics and screenshots of the service are available at
www.sipgate.com/press.html

* charges from third parties for Wi-Fi or VoIP subscriptions may apply

About sipgate, Inc.

sipgate, Inc. is the U.S. based arm of Europe’s largest and most
innovative, network-agnostic  telephone service. Backed by a proven
track record and a cutting-edge R&D team, the company strives to make
the most powerful telecom solutions accessible, easy to use and
manageable for everyone.

The sipgate service is currently in an invitation-only beta program.
Details on future service offerings will be made available at the time
as products and services become generally available to consumers and
businesses. sipgate, Inc. is privately held and headquartered in San
Francisco, California.

sipgate(r) is a registered trademark in the United States and other
countries used under permission by sipgate Inc.

Media Contacts
Thilo Salmon
(415) 520-7642
salmon@sipgate.com

Martin Smith
(415) 520-7645
smith@sipgate.com