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EQO Adds Availability in Eight European Countries
VANCOUVER, British Columbia and LONDON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --
- EQO Mobile now available in 28 countries
EQO Communications, the pioneer in mobile Internet phone services, today
announced availability of EQO Mobile in eight additional European nations:
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia. According to data from London-based researcher EMC published by
industry newsletter Eastern Europe Wireless Analyst, there are about 175
million mobile subscribers in Central and Eastern Europe.
"As Eastern Europeans emigrate, they want stay in touch friends and
family back home," said EQO CEO Bill Tam. "We'll continue to expand our
service offering around the world, helping people to keep in touch easily
and inexpensively, right from their mobile phone."
EQO Mobile features:
-- Savings of up to 95% on international calls
-- Free calls and text messages with other EQO users
-- Free IM on MSN, Yahoo, AIM, GoogleTalk, ICQ and Jabber
-- Text messages to anywhere in the world at savings of up to 70%
EQO Mobile launched in May 2007 with service in Austria, Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom,
and the United States.
EQO Mobile is free to download and installs itself automatically on
millions of mobile handsets available worldwide from major manufacturers
including Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sanyo, and Sony Ericsson.
About EQO Communications
EQO (pronounced "echo") is a pioneering mobile communications company.
EQO has developed a service that helps people around the world stay better
connected using their mobile phone by removing the high cost and hassle of
international mobile calling. Using a proprietary mobile soft-switch platform
and a presence-enabled Voice-over-IP (VoIP) signaling network, EQO Mobile
saves people up to 95% on all international calls, IM and texting and even
provides free calling and texting with other EQO users. EQO is remarkably
simple to use, sparing people from calling cards, complicated dialing or
call-back scenarios. Instead, EQO is powered by a small, sophisticated
software application that makes calling as easy as using as a standard phone
address book. For additional information please visit http://www.eqo.com/.
Web site: http://www.eqo.com
