Zootok, International Calls for Cheap?

10Aug07

When did you think about a “long-distance call” the last time? Wasn’t that something your grandparents were afraid of? I guess. But today we are using Skype or any VOIP service available to us to save money and to make things easy. Pair the idea of digital calls with Web 2.0 and what you get is Zootok. It’s almost a cliché. The concept is the following: You sign up to get cheap international calls. You can either call over the web or by texting the desired number to them and then getting connected. The fares are not clearely disclosed by the way, so here is the official wording. 

“From anywhere in the world to anywhere else in the world for less than the price of a coca-cola.”   

Or rather: You get charged 50p (British Pence) for one connection. And that’s a fair price isn’t it? Especially since you can call either landlines or mobilephones anywhere on our great planet. If it only worked …   I tried to call up my brother in London on his Swiss mobile number well, he simply couldn’t hear me. It’s still bugy and in a quite earl state. For example you don’t hear the “ringing” sound while calling but you have to wait untill the phone gets picked up on the other side. Since the guys from Zootok added me as their twitter friends I might well finish this post by saying: Give it a shot, they are new, eager to dominate the world and you get the first two calls for free!  

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