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I tried it on my cell (using both the SIM cards) and I did not get back any calls even after couple of days! On 3/5/14, Rahul Gambhir <[email protected]> wrote: > A team of engineers in Bangalore has a free voice calling service for > any part of the world. BANGALORE: For those who do not mind the > annoyance of advertisements right in the middle of a conversation, a > team of engineers in Bangalore has a free voice calling service for > any part of the world. Termed FreeKall, it brings > voice-over-internet-like services to those without internet access. > > The idea, which was thought up in the dorm of M S Ramaiah Institute of > Technology in Bangalore, was launched as a service last Saturday. > Still in beta, or testing phase, nearly four lakh FreeKalls have been > made so far. > > "The response has been phenomenal. Our servers crashed about seven > times and we had to bring it back up," said Yashas Shekar, a > 23-year-old who cofounded the company with college-mates Vijayakumar > Umaluti and Sandesh Eshwarappa. "On the flip side Sandesh, and > Vijayakumar have not slept since Saturday," chuckled Shekar, a former > Godrej Interio employee who shut his first venture, a web development > firm, to concentrate on this startup. > > The service, in some ways, is reminiscent of the trunk calls of the > last century, except that the cloud infrastructure does the job > instead of an operator. To make a FreeKall a user dials number > 080-67683693 and the call is disconnected after just one ring. > Following this, the system calls back the user, and an automated > system prompts the user to dial the desired number. Lo and behold, the > call is connected. The system can currently support 10,000 requests > per second. If it goes beyond that, it will not be returned. > > "I must say, someone has thought out of the box. This can be truly > disruptive if it works out well," said Hemant Joshi, who oversees the > telecom practice at consulting firm Deloitte. > > FreeKall makes money by making people listen to advertisements. So, > when the call is connected, the user hears an advertisement instead of > a ringing tone. And at intervals of two minutes, the caller and the > called party will have to pause the conversation and hear an > advertisement for soaps, shampoos and the like. > > For now, unregistered users can make calls that last three minutes. > For those who register, the conversations can last 12 minutes. In > about a month, there will be no limit on the amount of time a person > can FreeKall. International calls will be possible in about a month, > once legal clearances are obtained. > > The company is aiming for 10 million calls a day in India and expects > revenue of $30 million ( 185 crore) by the end of the next fiscal. It > plans to take its business to Africa soon. > > Freekall has tieups with a media agency called Streetsmart Media > Solutions for the advertisements. > > The idea originated in 2008 when Umaluti, 25, thought of facilitating > free calls, albeit manually, through a call centre. The other > cofounders, with their experience in web development, looked at a > cloud-based implementation and decided to revisit the college project > idea last year. > > FreeKall has received 10 lakh in seed capital from Ranjith Cherickel, > a telecom professional who has worked at Nokia Siemens Networks, > Verizon Wireless and Skype. "I expect them to expand internationally > in less than a year. This will work well in developing countries and > potentially in high-tariff developed markets," said Cherickel. > > Although there are several applications that provide free calls, the > 3G infrastructure in India is not robust enough to support calls at > all time and all places. What FreeKall is doing is trying to tap into > areas that services such as Skype and Viber are yet to penetrate. > > "The company should move fast in terms of engaging with advertising > networks and digital agencies and consider how best to get IP > protection. A lot depends on them showing value to advertisers by > profiling users accurately and delivering relevant targeted ads," said > Ravi Gururaj, chairman of Nasscom Product Council. > > By launching an app in about a quarter, the company is also looking to > capture the smartphone market and minimise the number of steps to make > a call. > > Shekar knows that smartphone adoption and internet connectivity will > only increase. "But it's not going to happen in the next five years at > least. By then, we would have captured a big market," he said. > > Joshi of Deloitte warned of problems such as heavy loads and > connectivity problems for cloud telephony. As for telecom service > providers, for whom a major chunk of the revenue originates from voice > calls, this will not be disruptive in the short term, said Joshi. > > "Those who use this service will mostly be prepaid users, and the > average revenue per user is small enough." > > > Source: http://m.timesofindia.com/articleshow/31456232.cms > > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. 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