Sipgate, stylised as sipgate, is a European

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and mobile telephony operator.

Company

Sipgate was founded in 2004 and became one of Germany's largest

service providers for consumers and small businesses. Through its network, which used SIP protocol, it allowed making low-cost national and international calls and provided customers with an incoming geographical phone number. Customers were expected to use a

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or a SIP-compliant hardware (a

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or ATA) to access its services. Since 2011, Sipgate's network has been using the open-source project

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for the core of its softswitch infrastructure. Sipgate are among the sponsors of the Kamailio World Conference & Exhibition. In January 2013, the firm entered the German

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market as a full MVNO. Sipgate's German mobile phone services run over the Telefónica Germany network.

Products

''sipgate team'' Introduced in 2009, the product is a hosted business phone system (PBX) providing online management of phone services for 1 to 250 Users. All billing, end user management,

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, etc. is through an online portal. A mobile solution was released in Germany in early 2013 that can be integrated with the 'Team' business VoIP service. SIM cards can be used as extensions in the Team web telephone system or used individually with mobile and landline numbers. ''sipgate trunking'' In Germany, SIP trunking services connect customer's third party VoIP PBXs via broadband with the public telephone network. SIP trunking can be combined with the team product. ''sipgate basic'' and ''sipgate basic plus'' The basic residential VoIP service was released in Germany and the UK in January, 2004. basic accounts receive one free UK or German geographic 'landline' phone number and a voicemail box. With a suitable fax-enabled VoIP adapter faxes may also be sent from conventional fax machines. On 6 October 2014, the firm released an open API ''sipgate io''.

Discontinued products

Smartphone apps Sipgate provided a software application called ''sipgate'' for use with

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and Android devices. In September 2008, the Higher Regional Court of

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(Germany) sided with a request by

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and issued an injunction preventing the download of ''sipgate'', barring iPhone owners from placing calls over the device's Internet connection rather than over T-Mobile's cellphone network. In counter action, Sipgate won an injunction against T-Mobile to bar it from advertising unlimited Internet access via the device. In March 2013 support and further development of the smartphone VoIP apps was ceased. Services in United States and Austria Sipgate operated a subsidiary which provided sipgate-branded VoIP services in Austria and the US. On 31 December 2013, the company discontinued Austrian operations citing negative regulatory restrictions imposed by the Austrian telecommunications regulator RTR. The RTR imposed rulings that a company can only supply a telephone number to a property if they also supply the associated cabling. All services provided by Sipgate Inc (USA) were discontinued as of 31 October 2013. ''sipgate one'' ''sipgate one'' was a product that allocated the customers a German mobile number and incoming calls were then forwarded to customer's landline number or

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. The service was discontinued on 31 July 2013.

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