“This offer coupled with Truphone’s low Internet calling rates will provide some really exciting savings for our users,” commented Brandon Meyers, free-hotspot.com’s Vice President of Marketing. He continued, “In the UK, for instance, users can call 1.6 billion landlines (and some mobiles) in 40 countries around the world for FREE until March 31st 2007.”

Truphone’s free software enables Wi-Fi mobile phones such as Nokia’s E60, E61, E70 and N-80ie to make free or internet-rate phone calls (VoIP calls) over Wi-Fi connections. When the mobile device is not in Wi-Fi range it reverts to being a normal mobile phone, so people need only one device. Through this partnership Truphone users will be able to seamlessly connect to the Internet and make either free or internet-rate calls when they are in range of one of free-hotspot.com’s certified Wi-Fi HotSpots, allowing owners to make calls at the lowest rate available.

Chris Isaacs, Business Development Director at Truphone, said, "Using free-hotspot.com is an extremely simple, no-hassle experience for Truphone users. free-hotspot.com’s reach into 14 different countries across Europe gives our users new connection options for making calls while they are travelling."

After May 15th, 2007, Truphone users will still be able to make calls from free-hotspot.com locations under a roaming agreement and will be charged just 3p/minute more than Truphone’s low standard published rates. The viewing of advertisements, entering of passwords or inputting of credit card details will not be required.

About free-hotspot.com:
free-hotspot.com operates the world’s largest and fastest growing free wireless network. The company currently operates more than 700 free HotSpots in 14 countries throughout Europe. Its HotSpots are located in cafés, hotels, pubs, restaurants, retail centres, transit centres and other public venues. To gain access to the company’s free wireless Internet service, users agree to watch an advertisement. For this innovation, free-hotspot.com received the prestigious WBI (Wireless Broadband Innovation) Award for Best Public Wi-Fi Product 2006.

free-hotspot.com supports an active user community and helps more than 40,000 people each month locate free hotspots. The company operates the industry’s most comprehensive directory of free HotSpots which currently lists more than 12,000 free wireless Internet locations worldwide.

To learn more about the free HotSpot programme or to find the free HotSpot nearest you, please visit: http://www.free-hotspot.com.

About Truphone:
In mid-2006, Truphone introduced internet telephony (‘VoIP’) for mass market mobile phones, enabling users to make free and low-cost calls from their handsets via Wi-Fi and the Internet. The company is closely involved with the open source community and is developing the Truphone service in accordance with internationally-recognised open standards. The company has development teams and partners in locations across Finland, Romania, USA and the UK. In December 2006 Truphone was selected as a ‘Technology Pioneer for 2007’ by the World Economic Forum. At the end of 2006 it received the biggest Series-A venture capital investment of the year for a European technology company. Truphone is the trading name of Software Cellular Network Limited (SCN), a privately-owned UK technology company founded in 2000.

Important information about emergency calls: Truphone is not a replacement for an ordinary telephone service and emergency calls cannot be made using Truphone. However Truphone does not prevent emergency calls being made via a handset’s normal cellular service provider.

Truphone is a registered trademark of SCN.

Press contacts:
free-hotspot.com
Emma Keenan / Johanna Toiviainen
Open2Europe
Phone: +33 1 55 02 14 59 / 58
e-mail: e.keenan@open2europe.com / j.toiviainen@open2europe.com

Truphone
Tim Donnelly Smith, Both Barrels Communications Ltd.
Phone: +44 7624 000275
e-mail: timds@bbcomms.co.uk