Cloud subsumes Vyke

The folks over at Vyke closed their week with the announcement that its wholly owned subsidiary, Vyke AS, has entered into an agreement that will give Vyke users access to VoIP calling services from any hotspot operated by The Cloud Networks Limited (a.k.a. “The Cloud” – cue eerie incidental music).

Beginning sometime “this summer,” Vyke Mobile IP users can use mobile VoIP service from The Cloud’s hotspots in the United Kingdom and abroad. The Cloud’s has some 9,000 WiFi-enabled wireless internet hotspots in 16 high-density metropolitan areas such as the city of London, Canary Wharf, Amsterdam and Manchester.

Vyke PR explained the firm’s alliance with The Cloud as due to “its operator independent business model, dominant position in Europe and its aggressive continuing build out plan,” making the cumulous one “a key partner for executing upon its stated mobile IP telephony strategy.”

Jan Christian Berger, executive vice president of sales for Vyke Communications plc hyperbolized to the effect that “Combined with Vyke’s mobile VoIP service, The Cloud’s wireless network represents a shift in the mobile telecoms paradigm.”

Vyke Communications plc is headquartered in the UK with subsidiaries and offices in Norway, US, Iceland and Malaysia. Vyke Mobile IP is a mobile Voice over IP service offering users free calling from their mobile phone to fixed lines in Western Europe and North America.