Katie Fehrenbacher at GigOm has a good summary of what’s going on at the big mobile conference in Barcelona 3GSM. She picks the top stories from the big players and notes that entertainment and content providers are new trends getting some notice. Check it out. Phoneboy finally also gets to add his two cents about the Nokia phones launched at 3GSM. His fave… the E90 Communicator.

Truphone is quick to point out that they support all of the new E-series Nokia handsets unveiled today in 3GSM Barcelona. Luca has a quick look at some of them. Truphone also makes it easier for subscribers to use their service through a new roaming agreement with free-hotspot.com. You’re looking at 700 additional Wi-Fi hotspots in 14 countries.

As a special launch offer, access to free-hotspot.com’s Wi-Fi network will be 100% free to Truphone users, with calls charged at Truphone’s low VoIP call rates. “This agreement makes Truphone mobile VoIP more accessible than ever,” said Chris Isaacs, business development director at Truphone. “We’ve made it very simple for users and the project was quick to implement technically.” 

I’ve been reading this week about NECs VOIP Seal anti-spam tool. VOIP Seal can detect if a call is computer generated and block it based on voice patterns. Alec Saunders also touched on it and pointed out that iotum is already anticipating the need for SPAM blocking with simple call screen capabity. GrandCentral does the same; they’ve got a SPAM registry where you can nominate the worse offenders so that everyone can block their caller IDs.

While I’m sure we’ll be hearing much more about the woes of phone SPAM in the future, I hope it’s something we won’t look back on and think, “If only we had done something back then…” In today’s report on M&C Tech News, they report the following statement from NEC:

“the existing infrastructure for producing spam e-mails (so called “botnets”) can easily be modified to also produce spam telephone calls. Today, the number of spam emails is higher than the number of regular emails produced jointly by all of the users in the internet. If unsolicited marketing and spam calls become as frequent as spam email, constantly-ringing VoIP phones may hinder the spread of their use.”

Alec talks about receiving annoying SPAM calls at the iotum office and we fielded one today at our house. A computer generated “Win a free trip” thing.

I’d be interested to hear from you if you’ve been getting spammed more than usual.

Let me know!