Comments on: fring fring!

By: Hugo

Hugo — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:33:15 +0000

Hey Deon,

These days, for an SMS alternative, “whatsapp” is pretty popular, alternatively instant message clients on smart phones.

The price depends on your provider. I don’t know what the data overhead is of these services, but taking my whatsapp as an example: I have sent 150 messages and received 288 via whatsapp. It came to sending just under 1MB and receiving 0.6MB. Now you’d have to look at your cellphone contract. It might be something like R2 per MB? (As an order of magnitude estimate.)

Hope that helps.

By: Deon

Deon — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:59:12 +0000

I cannot find the actual cost on-line so what does it cost to send an average size ‘sms’ via Fring.?

By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:51:49 +0000

Really amazing tools!
Communication world seems to have arrived at the turning point.
It will not take long until the mobile operators realize that they have to land other businesses to make money from.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:39:54 +0000

http://www.fring.com/about/cost_saving/ claims on a Symbian phone, it’s about 8MB per hour, or a megabyte every 7.5 minutes :

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fring for Symbian phones consumes:
~ 8MB for a 60-minute VoIP call;
0.05 KB per instant message;
~ 10KB per hour connectivity

fring for Windows Mobile handsets consumes:
~ 14.5MB for a 60 minute VoIP call;
16.2 KB pr hour connnectivity [sic]

June 2007

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:47:26 +0000

fring bandwidth usage: based on a single 45 second test call, it seems fring bandwidth usage (over 3G) is about 1MB per 6min. On MTN contracts without data bundles, that’s R2 of data. Small data bundles drop the rate to R1 for 6 mins.

This is a very rough estimate.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:45:37 +0000

Thanks! I’ll check it out. OTOH, I like that about fring: it can use my existing Skype and Google Talk contacts. (Once I decide to give them my password that is.) Also, fring to fring calls avoid networks like Skype, of course.

Can Yeigo make Voice calls to Google Talk? Does not look like it, and cannot phone Skype contacts either? (…which is where fring is particularly useful, being able to “freeload” on Skype and Google Talk’s services.)

By: jt

jt — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:00:19 +0000

hey there

Listen, just wanted to respond to your post!

Firstly, neither MTN, Vodacom(phone) nor any cellular operator can block or charge premiums on VoIP calls at this stage! They are trying like hell to do so, but at this stage the way is open for free, purely mobile communication.

Secondly I wanted to let you in on something – Yeigo! Yeigo is a mVoIP application, completely written from scratch by some of the most amazingly talented coders, and borrows nothing from choked up services like Skype. You see Fring freeloads on Skype’s service, hence why u need skypeout credit. Yeigo handles your communication, beginning to end, itself. With its own super high-speed network that isnt suffering from degradation or over-crowding – the result – free, quick, low latency, best voice quality calls Yeigo-to-Yeigo and up to 80% savings when phoning non-Yeigo users using Yeigo credit, worldwide.

As for IM, Yeigo links in seemlessly with your Yahoo, MSN, Google, ICQ, AIM and jabber (MXit) clients. no need to worry about giving Yeigo ur google password, thats not how it works. Yeigo logs you in through the Google gateway so your password, as with all other IM clients, is between you and the service u use.

check out www. yeigo.com or the blog http://www.yeigo.com/blog for more.

Hope you found this useful?