Lycos Inc. has launched Lycos Phone, the Internet’s first free VoIP integrated communication platform. The VoIP softphone application’s entertainment features combine IM, Video Chat, Real-Time Video On Demand and MP3 Player, powered by Globe 7.

The downloadable white label VoIP platform will be entirely free, converting users’ laptops and desktops into second phone fulfilling their communication and entertainment needs. With Globe 7, PC to PC calls along with PC to PC video calls are both free. Users also receive unlimited free incoming calls from any landline or mobile phone, from around the world. Users will be granted 100 free minutes of PC to landline and PC to mobile phone calls. Lycos Phone will be offering additional free minutes through various promotions.
Lycos in partnership with Globe 7, will be the first VoIP service provider to offer full multimedia coverage for music and video on demand. With Lycos Phone, users have access to more than 300 movie trailers, business news, world sports and more. Users can also search the web while chatting online. Lycos also provides a free U.S. phone number, free fax and free voicemail to email. Unlike Yahoo and Skype, Lycos is the first to introduce any of these features.
“This partnership with Globe7 allows Lycos to team with a best-of-breed global platform, leveraging Globe7’s real-time communications infrastructure to provide other innovative services like Internet Protocol television,” said Alfred Tolle, CEO of Lycos, Inc. “We are in a very unique position to now provide this audio and video distribution platform to our millions of independent content creators throughout the Lycos Network.”
“Globe7 was built from the ground up as a standards-based Voice-over-IP system with a wide array of voice call features such as voice mail, and integration with the existing U.S. and International telephone networks,” Tolle added. “This, in combination with our upcoming Lycos HanMail system, based on Daum’s highly successful HanMail product in Korea, will allow Lycos to leap-frog all existing communications offerings available today.”
“We are very excited to be partnering with Lycos on this white label solution of our Globe7 free downloadable soft phone application,” said Venkat Meenavalli, CEO of Globe7. “We chose to team with Lycos to introduce our application to the U.S. audience because of Lycos’ strong brand recognition as well as their strong focus on content and their rich heritage in search.”