Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Thu, January 8, 2009
Zoom Technologies, Inc.: Zoom's Global Village Introduces Low-Cost Phone Calls Dialed Using a Browser or Text-Message
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - January 8, 2009) - The Global Village® division of Zoom Technologies, Inc. (
TextCall allows mobile phone users to send a text message that is the phone number to be called. Global Village then calls the mobile phone that sent the text message and connects it to the number specified in the text message. Dial-by-name and callback-my-landline are provided as free options.
WebCall is a Web-based callback service for low-cost speed-dialing using a PC, phone, or other device that has Web access. No special equipment is required, just a phone that can receive incoming calls.
The services are targeted toward business users who make international phone calls. Both callback services use a voice-oriented toll-quality telephone network to carry the call, eliminating the quality and reliability limitations of VoIP.
Both services work to or from any country and are managed from a single Web account, with no sign-up fees or monthly minimums and excellent Web-based call accounting. Both services permit the called-back phone to be a mobile phone, office phone, home phone, or any other phone that can receive an incoming call; so it's easy to make low-cost calls from home, the office, or while traveling.
TextCall can be used from any mobile phone that can send text messages. Making a call with TextCall is as easy as 1, 2, 3:
1) STORE the number 6179532125 in your phone's contact list under Global Village. (Outside the US, the stored number should include the appropriate prefix for dialing a US phone number.) 2) SELECT Global Village from your stored contact list anytime you want to make a call. 3) SEND a text message to Global Village. The text message is whatever number you want to dial. (For instance, the text message could be 011441234567890 or any other number you want to dial.) After you send the text message, Global Village calls your phone back in seconds and connects you.
For a limited time people can use the above instructions to make one free 10-minute call to almost any phone in the world.
WebCall, the other Global Village callback service, works for anyone who has a Web browser and a phone that can receive phone calls. WebCall works with ANY Web access, including broadband and dial-up, from over 170 countries. WebCall makes it easy to speed-dial a number, and to create a speed-dial list of the people you call. PC-Call, a free Global Village Windows application, imports a speed-dial list from Microsoft Outlook™ with a single command, and also imports a speed-dial list from the many contact managers that can export a CSV file.
Visit [ www.globalvillage.com/ces ] for additional information about WebCall and to make a free 10-minute call to almost anywhere.
Global Village is the latest in a long series of innovative telecommunications products from Zoom. Two of Zoom's founders were PhD students at MIT in 1975 when they designed a speed-dialer that could hear busy and ring signals, and automatically speed-dial the MIT tennis courts or any other busy number. In 1981 Zoom introduced the Demon Dialer, an innovative and successful speed dialer that was sold by almost every leading retailer or distributor of phone products. In 1983 Zoom shipped its first modem, and Zoom now has a broad line of modems and other communication products. Global Village, Zoom's phone service division, benefits from Zoom's experience in telecommunications and speed dialing.
About Zoom Technologies and Global Village
Global Village, a division of Zoom Technologies, Inc., provides high-quality phone service worldwide. Zoom Technologies also produces ADSL modems and gateways, wireless networking products, cable modems, dial-up modems, Voice over IP telecommunications hardware, Bluetooth products and other communications products under the Zoom and Hayes brands. For more information about Zoom and its products, please see: [ www.zoom.com ]
