With FreeKall, users will be able to make free calls even if they don't have any internet access.
Three
Bangalore based engineering students, Yashas C Shekar, Vijaykumar
Umaluti and Sandesh E, have launched FreeKall, a free voice calling
service for those who do not have any internet access.
FreeKall makes money by making people
listen to advertisements during calls. So once two users are connected,
they will be able to hear 10 second advertisements after every two
minutes in the middle of the call. Freekall has tied up with a media
agency called Streetsmart Media Solutions for the advertisements.
To make a FreeKall users have to dial
the numbers 080-67683693 or 080-67683693 and the call will be
disconnected after a ring. After that, the automated system calls the
user back and asks them to dial the desired number and get connected.
The system can currently support 20,000 calls per second. FreeKall is
currently in Beta as of now and so far it has already been used to make
nearly four lakh (400,000) calls so far.
Registered users can make 12 minute
calls in 24 hours and un-registered users can make calls for upto three
minutes. Once the service goes live, registered users will be able to
make unlimited calls.
The company is aiming for nearly 10
million calls a day after getting the necessary legal clearances and
expects revenue of nearly $30 million at the end of the next fiscal
year.
"The response has been phenomenal. Our
servers crashed about seven times and we had to bring it back up," said
Yashas Shekar, the 23-year-old who co-founded the company with
college-mates Vijayakumar Umaluti and Sandesh Eshwarappa. "On the flip
side Sandesh, and Vijayakumar have not slept since Saturday," chuckled
Shekar.
Recently an Indian student had developed a prototype of a computer system that uses a microchip, embedded with an operating system. It allows the system to work on both Windows and Linux-based software simultaneously. The system is called Revo Book and runs on an operating system called ReVo IX.
Recently an Indian student had developed a prototype of a computer system that uses a microchip, embedded with an operating system. It allows the system to work on both Windows and Linux-based software simultaneously. The system is called Revo Book and runs on an operating system called ReVo IX.
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