Pinger (company)
Pinger is the leading US provider of free SMS and the seventh largest wireless operator in the US. Pinger was founded in 2005 by the duo Greg Woock CEO and Joe Sipher (Head of Product and Marketing), former Palm executives .
On February 27, 2012, at the Mobile World trade fair in Barcelona, Pinger announced the launch of an app with which users can also make free calls to public networks. The service that Pinger referred to as "the first free international communication network in the world", is initially to iOS - smartphones from Apple and Android are smartphones available.
Germany is the first country after the USA in which free telephony is to be made possible. Later in 2012, France and Italy are to be added as well as eight other countries. The offer is financed primarily through advertising income. But also T-Venture, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, wants to invest 7.5 million US dollars (5.6 million euros) in Pinger.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Pinger's Polite Plans For World Domination , Forbes, July 13, 2011, accessed February 28, 2012.
- ↑ Free calls from mobile phones to landlines , Stern, February 27, 2012.
- ^ Pinger: Free calls to landlines , Netzwelt, March 1, 2012.