Developed by FastComm, the ttrumpet app has officially launched in South Africa. By downloading the free app, you will be able to make free calls, message contacts overseas, and receive special in-store vouchers and online deals.
“ttrumpet is an uber cool app to make free calls and messaging worldwide, get fantastic vouchers, find information on every place around you, scan products for exciting content, reviews, pricing and augmented reality. We have spent thousands of hours making sure that the app is beautiful and simple to use,” the company says on their website.
Fastcomm CEO Grant Theis explains that you wouldn’t have to change your mobile number when using the app.
“ttrumpet is not just a call and messaging app – it’s a platform that allows businesses, retailers and brands to provide value to consumers by demystifying mobile. We want to offer the South African market a simplified mobile experience of purchasing credits that can be used for GSM airtime, mobile data, international roaming data, and WiFi in a single application – no asterisks, no clauses, just transparency – regardless of the colour of your SIM,” he said in a press statement.
Calls to other ttrumpet users are free, but to make calls using the app’s VOIP in South Africa, you will be charged 65c per minute. Currently the app supports over 200 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Algeria, Australia, Egypt and India, and is available for iOS and Android.
“ttrumpet Out will never limit you to calls within the ttrumpet network. ttrumpet Out is a low-cost way of keeping in touch with people outside of the ttrumpet network. This optional feature forms a great complement to the free ttrumpet to ttrumpet calls. ttrumpet Out credits are available for purchase… and will appear immediately on your phone,” they explain.
Fastcomm is a holding company that specialises in new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with the emphasis on open source. “Our aim is the convergence of telephone networks with computer networks giving huge economic incentives. Fastcomm focus in companies using innovative open source and other disruptive technologies,” the company states.
[Source – ttrumpet, Image – Flickr]
