New service saves people up to 95% on international mobile calls and
provides free international mobile calls, text messages and IM chat with
other online EQO users.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia and LONDON, May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- EQO
Communications, a pioneer in mobile internet phone services, today
announced the launch of EQO Mobile, a groundbreaking new service that lets
users make international long distance calls and exchange IM and text
messages on their mobile phones at local calling and messaging rates.
People using EQO save up to 95% on all international calls and enjoy free
calling and "texting" with other EQO users.
EQO's new service is remarkably simple to use, sparing people from
calling cards, complicated dialing or callback scenarios. EQO Mobile is
powered by a small, sophisticated software application that makes calling
as easy as using as a standard phone address book. The application is free
to download and installs itself automatically. EQO Mobile allows users to
leverage their existing contact lists to build a network of EQO contacts
and to easily invite these contacts to also use EQO.
"It has become much more common for consumers to use their mobile
phones for talking, even when there is a landline alternative.
Unfortunately, mobile users who have friends and family spread out across
the globe have few choices from their wireless carriers for affordable
international long distance calling," said Jill Aldort, senior analyst for
Yankee Group. "Mobile VoIP solutions such as EQO's offer international long
distance calling for significant savings over the rates that wireless
carriers offer. These services will appeal to those consumers who need to
make frequent international long distance phone calls."
According to Insight Research, the worldwide international calling
market reached $300 billion in 2006, with International VoIP revenues
forecasted to reach $87 billion this year.
"We developed the new EQO Mobile to satisfy a long unfulfilled need for
consumers and business professionals -- to make international mobile
calling and messaging more affordable and convenient," said EQO Chief
Executive Officer Bill Tam. "We've made it extremely easy for consumers to
get EQO Mobile, create a calling and messaging network of friends, and make
calls intuitively without having to worry about the costs."
EQO Mobile's compelling features include:
-- Savings of up to 95% on international calls
-- Free calls and text messages with other online EQO users
-- Text messages to regular mobiles at savings of up to 70%;
-- Free IM chat using MSN, Yahoo, AIM, GoogleTalk, ICQ and Jabber
-- Easy to use
- Uses current phone and plan
- No new numbers to remember
- No computer needed
- No complicated callback scenarios
Currently EQO supports hundreds of mainstream mobile handsets (for a
complete list, visit http://www.eqo.com/supported_phones.php) and will
initially be available in the following 20 countries: Austria, Belgium,
Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Israel, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
United Kingdom, and the United States. Consumers in these countries can
download the software and create a network of EQO Contacts in any
EQO-supported country, as well as call virtually anywhere else in the world
at rates up to 95% less than traditional calling rates.
For more information and to download EQO Mobile for free, visit
http://www.eqo.com.
About EQO Communications
EQO Communications is a Vancouver, Canada-based company focused on
changing the landscape and economics of mobile communications for consumers
around the world. Applying the business rules of the Internet to mobile
services, EQO has developed a revolutionary mobile consumer voice and
messaging service that reduces international calling costs and keeps people
connected to their friends and contacts from a single phone application.
Using a proprietary mobile soft-switch platform and a presence-enabled
Voice-over-IP (VoIP) signaling network, EQO is capable of delivering
presence-enabled voice calling and instant messaging services to millions
of mobile handsets available worldwide. For additional information please
visit http://www.eqo.com/.
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