Cut your iPhone call costs by 50 percent - with callback

Stuart Corner
Sunday, 28 June 2009 11:31

Business IT - Technology

Additional features of the BigTinCan service include a centralised address book, call recording, the ability to store images and forward them as MMS, the ability to have another number owned by the caller show up as the originating number of a call.

Keane told iTWire "We are targeting a few markets initially: people who overuse their caps - actually quite a big market; people who want to make calls and send messages to people internationally (we kind of position it as a "international calling card for smart phones"); people who want to distribute their content from a smart phone or from our web portal (a key feature is our powerful MMS service); people who want the extra features we provide, like call recording and flexible caller ID, and then out next version of the service which is basically a PBX replacement service for smart phone users - that is an interesting opportunity.

BigTinCan plans to initially target the Australian, US and UK markets before moving into other territories.

Keane and BigTinCan co-founder Duane Groth already have a track record of building successful communications companies. Keane founded wireless broadband service provider Veritel that was acquired by BigAir and collaborated with Groth to build call bypass provider vCall, which was sold to investor partners in 2005. Groth previously created and founded e164.org, an international telephone number exchange.

BigTinCan is also the developer of BuzzMe, a Blackberry application that lets Blackberry users have greater control over the vibration feature. It says that BuzzMe is on track to reach a million users worldwide by August and is currently one of the top ten Blackberry AppWorld applications.