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Updated news from Techcrunch reports:
VOIP start-up Fring has closed an estimated $12 million second round, led by US VC fund North Bridge Venture Partners. VenFin and previous investors Pitango, Veritas and Yossi Vardi also participated. If the investment estimate is accurate, it would be one of the larger rounds for a VOIP company.
Fring is a mobile application for Windows and Symbian phones that uses VOIP to make cheap/free mobile calls and instant message. Unlike Jajah, but like Truphone, Fring sends calls and chats over Wi-Fi internet access or your 3G or GPRS Internet data plan …
This writer will tell you, having the AT&T 8525 for more than a month before finding/adding Fring? (What’s the opposite of “priceless”?) It’s no wonder folks are handing over money. Making VOIP calls or chatting over wifi or your (better be unlimited) cellular data plan, integration with voice/chat Skype, GoogleTalk, MSN … all I can say is when I wifi-Fring-Jott my soccer team to text their parents that the game has not rained out because rain cannot survive this heat, they’ll never know what hit ‘em.
Isn’t it Fringing wonderful.
January 19th, 2008 at
Plus it’s called “Fring” ! That’s all I need. :- )