Talkster Brings Free International and Group Calling to China

Sun Feb 3, 2008 9:07pm EST
 
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Celebrate Chinese New Year With Free Calls Year-Round From Any
                                 Phone
TORONTO--(Business Wire)--
With more than one-fifth of the world's population residing in
China, innovative Voice 2.0 company Talkster announced today the
immediate availability of country-wide coverage for Talkster's Free
World Dialing(TM) in China. With this expansion into China Talkster is
meeting the demands of callers making long distance, international and
group conference calls to or from any fixed or mobile phone in China;
all for the cost of a single local call.

   Celebrate this Chinese New Year by connecting with family and
friends in China using the award-winning Talkster Free World Dialing,
a free ad-supported calling service offering unlimited group and
person-to-person calls. With Talkster, callers listen to a brief
10-second audio advertisement, and then can talk as long as they like
in more than 30 countries around the globe.

   "Talkster is continuously expanding our service area to cover the
globe and to meet the demand of the thousands of people who contact us
each week looking for us to add access to their country," said James
Wanless, Talkster co-founder and COO. "Talkster worked hard to blanket
all of China with our service and get it up, tested and operational in
advance of the Chinese New Year. Starting today Talkster can be used
from any phone in China, mobile or fixed."

   To complement this new service coverage, Talkster has also
translated its service into Mandarin, the Chinese dialect spoken in
Mainland China. Consumers wanting to use the Talkster service in
Chinese can visit www.Talkster.cn. Talkster recognizes that delivering
its solution in a user's own language is a key factor for success.
Talkster's availability in Mandarin is the first step of many towards
providing Talkster services in multiple languages.

   People around the world are already using Talkster's Free World
Dialing service today by visiting

   --  www.Talkster.com on the Web,

   --  free.talkster.com from any mobile phone browser,

   --  i.talkster.com from an iPhone.

   From any one of these sites, callers simply enter their name and
phone number, along with the names and phone numbers of the person or
persons they want to call. Talkster assigns free local Talkster
numbers for each person or group of people a user wants to call. These
new phone numbers can be saved in any address book or contact list and
used every time a Talkster user wants to talk for free.

   "This is not some limited time promotional offer, or bait and
switch deal for callers where it's free now but will cost them later,"
adds Wanless. "This announcement means that with Talkster all
international, long distance and group calls are always just the cost
of a local call, and will remain this way with no strings attached."

   The Talkster solution is a win-win for callers and advertisers.
Callers receive a valuable service for free while Talkster offers
advertisers a unique way to access and target emerging markets with
unique messages based on where users are calling from or calling to.
By adding service in China, Talkster is opening an important
advertising channel to the world's largest population. Being able to
target ads to callers based on singular or combined demographic data
means advertisers reach the right people with their marketing
messages, and callers receive valuable offers designed specifically
for them. When ads are targeted and relevant, consumers are more apt
to view them as offers rather than intrusions.

   About Talkster

   Talkster's award winning voice technologies are revolutionizing
ad-supported telephony with a fully sustainable mobile advertising
supported business model which benefits both callers and advertisers.
Talkster's Free World Dialing(TM) is the only service for making long
distance, international, and group conference calls from any type of
phone, on any network, for the cost of a local call. For more
information visit Talkster on the Web at www.Talkster.com, from your
mobile phone at free.talkster.com, or from your iPhone at
i.talkster.com.

Mobility Public Relations for Talkster
Melissa Burns, 208-946-4849 (media)
talkster@mobilitypr.com

Copyright Business Wire 2008

 

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