Do u know? It is started to promote advertisements nf different companies to
earn money. u r compulled to weight for1or2minutes to hear advertisements,
if u like the ads u will buy the product too.
Shiv,kannur.With heartfelt grattitudes&greetings,-----Original message-----
From: Siddharthkumar Keshri
Sent: 06/03/2014, 1:40 pm
To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning
the disabled.
Subject: [AI] Hi! I want to know how will that firm get benifit by providing
such free calling services?
On 3/5/14, shankar shan <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi, I used b s n l sim card to dile the number, but, I am getting an
> error saying invalid number
>
>
>
> On 05/03/2014, Rahul Gambir <[email protected]> wrote:
>> tried around 12pm and I got call back from the sane number
>> Thanks
>> Rahul
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Mar 5, 2014, at 9:50 PM, "Shreedhar TS." <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> is it working for you?
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
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