Telecom Lead Canada: Fongo, a start-up company in
Canada, claims that it has become Canada’s fastest growing mobile
telecommunication company.
Backed by VC firm Tech Capital Partners, and a handful of
storied Canadian investors, the company said that it has successfully installed
its free calling applications on hundreds of thousands of smart phones and
devices and foresees over one million Canadian subscribers to their products by
the end of 2012.
The company also claims that its popular free calling
mobile phone app, which is Dell Voice has become the #1 social networking
app in the Apple App Store.
“We are well on our way to hitting north of a
billion mobile page views based on our rate of customer adoption and are
preparing to launch new products and platform enhancements. Our partners are
chosen based on what the average Canadian consumes each and every day –
technology, a vacation, groceries and so on and by providing savings, goodwill
gets put back into the brand responsible for delivering it,” said John Stix,
chief marketing officer of Fongo.
Fongo’s suite of free calling platforms are on track to
save Canadians over $100 million by offering free calling and free premium
services like voicemail and call display.
The company is closely affiliated with Fibernetics, a
VoIP based CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier), which chose to spin out
Fongo after discovering the demand for its free calling app through a regional
beta test.
“Fongo has created a customer adoption platform that
is catching the attention of some of the most coveted brands in North America.
With Fongo, a new and highly intuitive media was born out of perhaps one of the
oldest, not to mention most expensive utilities out there – the phone,” said
Harvey Carroll, president of Grip Limited and a Fongo Advisory Board Member.
