Droplet buys Sipcall

Mobile video firm Droplet Technology bought Sipcall, a developer of SIP-based mobile VoIP services. Under the deal, Sipcall's president and funder will join Droplet as director of service platforms.

Terms of the deal between the two privately-held companies were not announced, but it was likely pretty cheap.  Mobile VoIP players are a dime a dozen less whomever has crashed and burned this week. Last week's sudden death of EQO and job cuts among the struggling masses likely greased this deal to happen sooner.

Back in April, Sipcall had launched the Hipsip service to allow mobile phone users to make "carrier-friendly" VoIP calls by using a mobile phone's web browser.

Droplet will integrate the Sipcall infrastructure into its interactive mobile video service platform, melding its software-based video solution with an IMS framework to enable interactive mobile video services that can run on virtually any camera-toting handset (plus PCs with webcams).

Adding SIP functionality into Droplet's video service platform is being touted as the company's way to support the IMS efforts of major carriers, and it also allows the company to launch direct-to-subscriber mobile video services with carrier-class QoS.

For more:
- Read Droplet's announcement to buy Sipcall

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