MINO passes 100,000

MINO Wireless mobile services company, has announced that it has reached a milestone of 100,000 users. The record was topped just about seven months after launch. Jing Liu, MINO’s founder and CEO, is still excited about the possibilities today: “Consumers associated VoIP with internet phones for a period of time, but wireless VoIP is becoming mainstream very quickly.”

In marking the occasion, MINO took stock of their appearance in that elusive mainstream media. MINO has been covered on CNN, CNET, Red Herring and scores of blogs. In a recent article, CNET wrote about MINO as the first company to launch mobile VoIP in the US, and said, “all a caller needs for mobile VoIP is a cell phone with internet access and the ability to store and run a VoIP program.” CNN’s article on MINO announced, “VoIP is headed to your cell phone.”

MINO Wireless was founded in 2004 and specializes in developing the technology to connect mobile phones to the VoIP infrastructure; the firms claims status as the first company to launch VoIP on mobile devices. MINO is a software service compatible with most mobile devices that allows mobile phone users worldwide to make international calls at low rates. MINO Wireless is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and is funded by private investors in the United States and Asia.