Today, I'll introduce you a funny VOIP(Voice over Internet Protocol) telephone - Peterpays, a subsidiary of GoYellow Media AG in Germany. As I happened to have made a market analysis for the chinese market of this project, so I can tell you more details about the fantastic VOIP telephone, what's more it's free for everybody!
Although there are plenty of VOIP operators, such as Skype, Jajah, Nonoh, Gizmo5. However, most of them don't offer "free-lunch". Peterpays is the only truly free VOIP telephone in the market, as far as I know, provides landline from Germany to up to about 40 countries, landline or mobile phone for free calls. Image when you can call your friends in all the listed countries without paying anything, what would you think?
Peterpays is also very easy to use, no headset, as long as there are landline or mobile phone with a landline number, no registration, no need to install sofware, user can directly fill his own landline number and the caller's number on the web page, and then click on "kostenlos telefonieren". First, your phone rings, you answer the phone, and then the caller's phone rings, the caller answers the phone, so that you can make free calls to the caller worldwide. Each call should not exceed 30 minutes, otherwise your calling will be cut off.
Peterpays earn the money from advertisers. During a call, pop-up ads (which is their main source of income) can not be switched off, otherwise the call will be cut off. You should also watch some video Ads through its web page during the call, every few minutes, you must click the screen to show that you are still watching the video Ads. In order to prevent malicious use, and be used for any commercial purposes, each user can not repeate phone calls to the same number in a provided short time, for example, dial the number of more than 100 times per month is not allowed. Everyday more than one million people use peterpays in Germany.
Peterpays is also very easy to use, no headset, as long as there are landline or mobile phone with a landline number, no registration, no need to install sofware, user can directly fill his own landline number and the caller's number on the web page, and then click on "kostenlos telefonieren". First, your phone rings, you answer the phone, and then the caller's phone rings, the caller answers the phone, so that you can make free calls to the caller worldwide. Each call should not exceed 30 minutes, otherwise your calling will be cut off.
Peterpays earn the money from advertisers. During a call, pop-up ads (which is their main source of income) can not be switched off, otherwise the call will be cut off. You should also watch some video Ads through its web page during the call, every few minutes, you must click the screen to show that you are still watching the video Ads. In order to prevent malicious use, and be used for any commercial purposes, each user can not repeate phone calls to the same number in a provided short time, for example, dial the number of more than 100 times per month is not allowed. Everyday more than one million people use peterpays in Germany.
Technical Overview of Peterpays:
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Viel Spaß mit Peterpays! ^_^
2 comments:
This more an advertisement than a helpful post on social networking. For instance, you describe the model, and you say the daily use is >1 million in Germany. Is this sustainable? Does PP change the paradigm enough to outlast competition? Is this the way things are headed? Can others easily copy? etc.
Dear Prof. Tunnard,
Thanks a lot for your feedback!
As I happened to have made an analysis of this business model for chinese market, I have more details about the PP, e.g. market analysis, can others easily copy, etc.
However, I made the document for a company, without the promise from the company, I'm afraid, I could not put too much details in an open blog.
In my opinion, the social networking needs communications, and calling is the basic communication method. However,communications normally have a cost. Peterpays is just the method, one can communicate with other people in the world for free.
The idea that I posted this article is to introduce this free communication method to the people, who want to do social networking with telephone and seek for a free VOIP telephone plattform to support his/her social networking.
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