“With ‘TelFree Mobile’ and ‘TelFree Web’ you enter the ‘Global Village’ where ‘unified communication’ has become reality“, said Walter Betschel, CEO of the Telfree Group Of Companies, a South African operator with offices in Pretoria and Cape Town.
According to Betschel, the service allows TelFree users and corporate clients to conveniently communicate from normal phone-calls to chat, email and instant messaging on Facebook from one device, at a global flat rate, without having to switch on and off different programs.
To activate the application, users have to download the TelFree Mobile application from the www.telfree.com website to their mobile smartphones or send “telfree” in an SMS to 39642 (SA only), then connect their to the Internet over 3G or Wi-Fi for instant access to multiple services.
In addition to that, the application offers national calls and roaming fees at an affordable rate, providing one global flat rate to fixed lines, mobile phones and free access for registered TelFree to TelFree accounts.
According to TelFree’s head of research and development, Rapelang Rabana, the Switzerland-based telecommunication provider has invested in software development and carrier-grade quality telecoms infrastructure to provide superior quality national and international calls at a reduced price.
TelFree controls and manages the call in much the same way traditional operators or carriers do and only makes use of the public internet from mobile phone or laptop to connect its users to the TelFree system within the stated resident country or city.
The TelFree Group is a privately-owned group of companies headquartered in Switzerland, which provide value-added communication services of the next generation. TelFree has positioned itself to penetrate Africa and other emerging markets, as well as developed markets.
