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.

If this one enter naija,
but then mtn no go allow NCC allow the stuff

Good initiatives though

We also have to take initiatives in this country as youths, to create alternatives to voice calls hereby relieving ourselves of exorbitant and extortion by these communication companies.

But bia, why are the numbers listed Nigerian ones