Challenger mobile, a worldwide telecom service provider is now letting their customers make mobile internet calls, free of cost. For customers who own Nokia (
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zone and when phones settings are adjusted accordingly.
The beta test version of the offering was launched in December 2006 and already boasts a customer base spread across more than 100 countries.
Challenger mobile is the flagship service offered by the Swedish company Mobile Business Challenger MBC AB.
The new offering will certainly help Challenger mobile to strengthen its presence in the global telecom market. "Challenger mobile aims to happily surprise the entire mobile phone community by offering free mobile telephony via the internet," said Carl-Johan Grund, Vice President of Mobile Business Challenger in a statement to the press.
"The ability to make free mobile calls whenever in a WiFi (
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Mobile Business Challenger plans to offer the service on all the internet calling-enabled handsets entering the market.
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