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Wireless - Thursday, October 11, 2007

Mobivox Raises $11M For Free/Cheap VoIP Calling Service

Montreal's MobiVox promotes free and cut-rate International phone calling from any mobile or landline phone has raised $11M. The startup is led by Stephane Marceau who was VP of VoIp at Bell Canada.

Mobivox is straightforward. You get a local access number from their Web site and call it. Your call is answered by a robot voice who asks who you want to reach then you get put through. There are some roadblocks in calling to and from certain countries and those are more frequent on mobile phones but the list of countries is large. It charges for International calls, though the cost is typically cents per minute.

Mobivox has too many competitors to count but Skype is the best known. Mobivox's take on Skype is that it lacks to ability to make calls on mobile phones and requires users to download software. Other competitors include EQO and iSkoot.

Mobivox's Series A was led byIDG Ventures Boston led with IDG Ventures China, IDG Ventures Vietnam and seed funders Brightspark Ventures and Skypoint Capital. It had raised $3M in its seed round.

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