Morodo Group Limited

“Easter calling” from MO-Call enables a bunch of minutes for overseas calling

Aleks — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:20:17 +0000

London –Popular mobile application MO-Call is giving its customers the opportunity to call their friends/relatives during the Easter holiday in six different countries without spending any amount from their MO-Call account. Additionally, all top-ups during the Easter Sunday will get a bonus of 50%.

“Easter calling” enables all users to take advantage of calling abroad with MO-Call free mobile VoIP application. All calls made during the four days period using Home or VoIP mode will be without any cost for the user. With this program the MO-Call customer gets the good opportunity to make the large number of calls, use the service and save money on his/her account.

“To be able to keep the customers loyal and completely committed to the service, special offers and promotions like this one, which offer any kind of reward or opportunity to make calling cheaper, easier or free, are unavoidable parts of successful service.”, says Andrew Reid, CEO of Morodo.

MO-Call is a clever mobile and PC application that is supported on over 2,490 mobile handsets including Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Java, Symbian and Windows Mobile and all major computer Operating Systems. With MO-Call users can save up to 90% on local and international calls, send cheap SMS and make free VoIP calls, on supported handsets to other online MO-Callers. Free VoIP calls are available from the PC application, iPhone application and Nokia S40 handsets to all online MO-Call buddies.

“We are constantly looking for ways to add value to MO-Call for our customers. To be able to give our customers the opportunity to talk for free to their family and friends abroad enables us to continue to reward our customers who have supported us and to make their MO-Calling happier,” says Andrew Reid, CEO of Morodo.

About Morodo
Seeking to re-define the way we communicate via mobile devices and the Internet, Morodo helps people keep in touch with whomever they want, whenever they want, from any device they want.

Morodo provides telecommunications services to hundreds of thousands of people around the world through the MO-Call software applications for mobiles and computers. Simple and seamless to use, MO-Call offers easy access to free and low-cost calling for anyone, anywhere.

Morodo news is available at the company website: www.morodogroup.com
MO-Call specific related news is available from the MO-Call blog: www.mo-call.com/blog

Media and Blogger Contact
Aleksandra Beljin (e-mail: aleksandra.beljin@morodo.co.uk)
Morodo Limited

Press Release: Updated MO-Call iPhone VoIP application ready for download

The Morodo Team — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:16:33 +0000

London – MO-Call’s popular application for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad has been updated and it is available for download from App Store or via iTunes. The new application has improved call quality and it is adaptable to different sorts of wireless internet connections.

All iPhone users will be able to enjoy the full range of MO-Call features, including free or cheap local and international VoIP calling, sending low-cost SMS or sending quick IM, improved call quality and much more.

The updated version of MO-Call for iPhone represents the best solution when considering ways to reduce calling expenses and avoiding high roaming charges. With WiFi or 3G connection enabled, calls between two iPhone users, both having MO-Call installed, are free. Additionally, calls can be made to any mobile or landline number regardless of MO-Call account. New features include: adaptation to different sorts of wireless internet connections, privacy statement and version number easily accessible from the tab More and several bug fixes.

“We are delighted to launch the latest MO-Call update for the iPhone platform and excited to welcome new and existing iPhone users to enjoy the benefits of MO-Call”, says Andrew Reid, CEO of Morodo. “The update comes at a time when more and more users are looking for alternative ways to minimise their calling costs. With this update, we will continue to remain one of the most popular apps available promoting VoIP as a mainstream mobile communication platform”, he concluded.

MO-Call is free to download and enables people everywhere to enjoy free or cheap international calls, free IM and low-cost SMS. The latest MO-Call iPhone app is available directly from App Store or from MO-Call website which sends the user to iTunes. By using MO-Call’s mobile web site http://mo-call.mobi downloading process is done in only few steps.

About Morodo

Seeking to re-define the way we communicate via mobile devices and the Internet, Morodo helps people with international lifestyles keep in touch with whomever they want, whenever they want, from any device they want.

Morodo news is available at the company website: www.morodogroup.com MO-Call specific related news is available from the MO-Call blog: www.mo-call.com/blog

Media Contact:

Aleksandra Beljin (e-mail: aleksandra.beljin@morodo.co.uk)

Morodo Limited

Morodo supports all Nokia S40 handsets with VOIP calling

ving — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:58:25 +0000

Morodo is pleased today to be able to support all Nokia S40 handsets with VoIP calling. From this day forward it is possible to use the MO-Call service and global network via the native Nokia Internet dialer to make free and low costs calls / SMS on the Morodo network from all S40 handsets.

We (Morodo) believe in the value Mobile VoIP can play in making mobile communications available to the next billion mobile customers. MO-Call is determined to make available its global network to enable cheap and low cost calls and SMS to all who want an alternative choice. The S40 is the World’s most popular handset and Morodo is pleased to welcome the S40 onto the Morodo network platform.

MO-Call enables low-cost international calling direct from a mobile phone, without the need to change mobile number, SIM or network. Should WiFi or wireless LAN not be available to the customer, the customers can still enjoy substantial savings over Mobile Network Operator International call tariffs by using the MO-Call “Home” or “World” services.

The work of Morodo in supporting the S40 represents a continued endorsement of VoIP as a mainstream mobile communication platform. “We are also seeing deployment of many additional WiFi hotspots around the world allowing free access from connected devices, to access Mobile VoIP (et al) services. This, together with a substantial growth forecast in WiFi enabled chipsets into connected devices and the insatiable appetite for speed, all point to a very favorable future for mobile VoIP. This all bears well for Morodo and add value to the already great value for money Nokia S40.

VoIP with Nokia S40

Morodo: WiFi – the growing usability “must have”!

The Morodo Team — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:52:36 +0000

Reporting on movements in user habits towards and favoring the Morodo model is always one of the more pleasant tasks of reporting in and around our ecosystem. It is surprising however to witness a move towards WiFi where the combatants with the greatest too loose, the Mobile Network Operators, are the force for change and towards customers seeking our WiFi as part of their daily data consumption pattern. This is certainly the case in the US today. Devicescape WiFi reports 64 percent of consumers surveyed hit hot spots at least once a day. Home Wi-Fi use can help reduce data usage, but for most smartphone owners who supplement their data plan with Wi-Fi, a full 89.8 percent use Wi-Fi both at home and on the road.

Customers are moving towards WiFi as MNO continue to pursue data capping as a means to concentrate revenue back in the MNO’s favour. The report describes 72.9 percent of respondents presuming they will switch carriers if faced with data capping and further a full 80 percent will likely adjust their downloading habits if data capping is introduced by their carrier.

There is no doubt that data demand around the mobile device is growing. Earlier this year, Cisco said it expected the average mobile user to consume 1,185 MB of data per month by 2015. That’s far more than the 250 MB that AT&T claimed was used by 65 percent of its customers when the carrier switched from unlimited to tiered mobile broadband plans.

The MNO’s have failed to see the world is now a more social and connected space. It is more social in the fact all human interaction is around your social network, whether articulated through membership or not. It is a more connected world than ever before as conceivably your most valued and useful possession is your mobile handset. The convergence of these two domains (mobile and Internet) is the genesis of Morodo greatest opportunity. The opportunity exists at its greatest inflection due to the ‘time to market’ a new aspirant would face wanting to support both the socialness of the internet with the connectivity of a ubiquitous handset.

The change in attitude and thinking and the realization the world is changing was articulated clearly in Nokia’s desire to partner with Morodo offering the clever feature phone platform (S40) the network support of Morodo. Nokia can now support VoIP calling globally over this feature phone with Morodo’s network support. Nokia is now a global network operator in its own right on this platform. This model supports no payment for spectrum licensing nor is the new entrant bound by geographical boundaries and expensive support and maintenance of last mile infrastructure.

Today, supporting over 800 WiFi enabled handset MO-Call can originate calls, disruptive of incumbent mobile network operator, to destinations all over the World. Last month this technology originated calls in over 150 countries around the world.

Morodo see any ISP, broadband provider and fixed line carrier as a good fit, with the support and success of WiFi, to become a mobile originator via a Morodo white label. Morodo will support all e-commerce comers with telephone 2.0 services and monetize via affiliation and loyalty incentives. Perhaps Morodo’s first success will be borne in America as the environment seems ready and almost demands new entrants like Morodo to come and fill the void left by the sleeping and slothy MNO’s. Morodo will soon be talking to LightSquared, the operator of a complete USA solution for 4G. Morodo is hopeful of joining their ecosystem to provide a range of services from voice, video calling, Instant messaging and video messaging services under the MO-Call brand but also, ready to enable others to provide service on a white label model.

The one thing from this report , whether WiFi or the new and coming 4G, is that Morodo is able and ready to support all e-commerce websites will telephone and communications and we are in small company.

Morodo: VoIP may finally be on firm ground

The Morodo Team — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:08:08 +0000

We often look towards America to gain a litmus test of how an industry is progressing. The US folks seem to be pretty good at taking the temperature of an industry or sector and making some assumptions around its likely success and future. The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project recently reported that almost one-quarter of Internet-using American adults have made telephone calls on the Internet via a service such as Skype or Vonage. The figure showed sharp increase over the last time Pew polled people on this question though this year was the first time Pew worded the question to offer Skype [sic] as an example of such a service.

What can Morodo take away from this latest comment on the health of VoIP? The first lesson is VoIP is now being defined by the leading and well-known Brands. This is certainly good news if you are one of the well funded VoIP companies spending some advertising dollars on having your Brand as a recognized verb around your technology. The prize is there for those that execute the technology well and spend some money in support of a growing global opportunity.

The second lesson may be that as a global demographic we are now ready to absorb this new way of calling. Over the last couple of years we have all endured a financial crisis that affected us all. We are now interested in the measure of cost/utility and wanting more for less. Alternative calling (VoIP) does this very well.

The third lesson and perhaps the greatest indicator of a moving continuum is the interest around Internet triggered calling, and web based communication generally. Providing services around this new paradigm demonstrates a willingness and competency to support the ‘socialness’ of the Internet. The web has always been social, it is this by design. Communication in 2011 must be interactive if it is to be sought out and used. So what is interactive communication? It is that part of the communication that adds intelligence to the thread. Morodo will support social networks and provide these portals with telephony and communication services around their interests and content. Click-to-Call will provide all who seek out an interactive sales channel and opportunity to monetize what they have and do.

The final lesson just may be that the incumbent mobile network operators, with all their combined financial power are just no match for a world of converging technology and converging competitive landscape where once friendly companions are now aggressive combatants.

Press Release: MO-Call’s new competitive international calling rates

The Morodo Team — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:07:26 +0000

London – Morodo’s highly popular service, MO-Call has decided to cut the already cheap calling rates and to continue providing very affordable calling prices. The prices are reduced up to 40% for 13 popular MO-Call destinations and represent permanent rates reduction. Additionally MO-Call is going to launch new pilot program called “Weekend rates reduction” which offers special prices for 10 popular destinations during 4 weekend period, commencing on Saturday 4^th June.

Some of the weekend prices are:

0.5 USD cents per minute to Canada
1.5 USD cents to India mobile
1.5 USD cents to China
8 USD cents to France mobile
11 USD cents to Spain mobile

MO-Call, as an alternative calling service, has proven very popular with business people during Monday to Friday as they travel and work and eliminate roaming charges via the downloadable free MO-Call app. Saturdays and Sundays are the best time for relaxing and making calls to loved ones that are put off all week.

“We operate in over 120 countries and offer extremely competitive rates to many popular destinations in the USA, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Our weekend and general rate reduction means you can call for less, and talk for longer. The new calling rates will say goodbye to high roaming charges and non affordable prices. We are always here to connect you with your friends and family abroad, simply and now more cheaply”, said Andrew Reid, CEO of Morodo Group.

About Morodo
Seeking to re-define the way we communicate via mobile devices and the Internet, Morodo helps people with international lifestyles keep in touch with whomever they want, whenever they want, from any device they want.

Morodo news is available at the company website: www.morodogroup.com

MO-Call specific related news is available from the MO-Call blog: www.mo-call.com/blog

Media Contact:
Aleksandra Beljin (e-mail: Aleksandra.beljin@morodo.co.uk)
Morodo Limited

Press Release: An Eggs-traordinary Easter surprise from MO-Call

Aleks — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:36:34 +0000

London – Morodo, Virtual Mobile Network Operator that provides cheap and quality communication services to many satisfied customers worldwide, gives away special Easter free credit coupons for 10 lucky MO-Callers.

Starting on Friday 22^nd April until Monday 25^th April all MO-Callers will have a chance to find 10 hidden Easter eggs on the MO-Call web site and win $10 calling credit. To take part in this Holiday Hunt browse www.mo-call.com site, learn more of what people think about the MO-Call service, learn how the MO-Call VoIP service works, read the Blog and tell your friends how to become a MO-Caller. The luckiest winners will find hidden pop-up windows behind textual content on some of the pages. Happy hunting!

MO-Call offers low-cost or free international calls direct from a mobile phone, without the need to change mobile number, SIM or network. Used when traveling overseas, MO-Call also helps avoid roaming charges. Providing seamless connection of a cheap call from a mobile phone, MO-Call offers savings of up to 90% over existing Mobile Network International Tariffs.

“To stay competitive in this environment you must continually challenge yourself to do better having regard to your customer’s needs and wants. Our special offers and promotions are a good way to stay connected with our users and to keep them trusting our innovative services,” says Andrew Reid, CEO of Morodo.

About Morodo
Seeking to re-define the way we communicate via mobile devices and the Internet, Morodo helps people keep in touch with whomever they want, whenever they want, from any device they want.

Morodo news is available at the company website: www.morodogroup.com
MO-Call specific related news is available from the MO-Call blog: www.mo-call.com/blog

Media and Blogger Contact:
Aleksandra Beljin (e-mail: aleksandra.beljin@morodo.co.uk)
Morodo Limited

Morodo: The Mobile Network Operators best kept secret!

The Morodo Team — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:15:29 +0000

Thinking about a holiday abroad? If part of your holiday reality is keeping in touch with family and friends at home or keeping an eye on your business, whilst you are enjoying the sun, and if you keep in touch by calling or using your handset’s connection to the Internet well you may be in trouble.

A recent article by Dan Simmons of BBC Click tells a story of a woman being trapped by last year’s ash cloud in Canada. She used her mobile phone to check flight times, to see if she could get home, and when she did eventually get home it had cost her nearly £2,000.00.

Making use of voicemail while you’re away may seem sensible – but those doing so may have to pay double or even triple the international rate. The article, “Could roaming rates be about to fall?” cites T-Mobile as charging a UK customer abroad once for someone to connect to their voicemail per minute, once for the length of the message, and once for when they dial in to hear it while abroad – all at about £1.40 ($2.25) a minute in some cases. For many countries visited that could mean a total charge of more than £4 ($6.4) per minute to pick up voice messages.

The article reports last year the European Commission slapped a new cap on what it described as “abusive” charges. For example, a call from Spain to the UK used to cost up to £1 ($1.6) a minute but is now less than 40 pence.

This may be the case in and around Europe but is certainly not the case outside Europe as Mobile Network Operators scramble to recover revenue on shrinking margins in other sectors around their walled garden paradise to cover the massive cost of the Operational Overhead. An example of this was evidenced during a recent MO-Callers travels to Beijing. Upon arrival in January 2011, a SMS was received informing of the cost of making an out bound call whilst roaming was 165 pence per minute and the cost of receiving a incoming call whilst abroad was 130 pence per minute. The MO-Callers vague recollection was that this was 49 pence to make at call and 35 pence to receive a call in September 2008. This increase is very nice for any business if they can get away with this in difficult financial times when the underlying costs of service have probably dropped.

Well – at MO-Call, we do not believe this behavior puts the Customer first. MO-Call do things differently. As an alternative Mobile Network Operator supporting 2,300 handsets across the globe, our downloadable Application as-a-service allows for an outbound call to be routed to a local number when abroad thus eliminating the outbound roaming cost completely. By adding a Chinese mobile number under an existing MO-Call account, calls to a UK landline number from China amounts to 3.2 pence per minute, far more attractive I argue than £1.65 per minute!

For more information on what the guys and girls are doing at MO-Call please see www.mo-call.com. Don’t put up with outrageous mobile bills just to ruin your memories of your holiday abroad. Contact MO-Call, get prepared, and save big bucks on staying in contact with the one’s you love back at home. MO-Call are online 24/7 via online support from their website or at support@mo-call.com.

Press Release: MO-Call’s Happy hour for five different destinations

Aleks — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:20:04 +0000

London – Morodo’s highly popular mobile and computer application MO-Call is giving its customers the opportunity to call five different destinations for a week starting from Monday 4^th April until Friday 8^th April and enjoy 60 minutes free or very cheap calling.

• Call any landline number in Australia for free or any mobile number for 7 US cents from Monday to Friday between 8 PM and 9 PM (Sydney local time)

• Call any landline or mobile number in China for free from Monday to Friday between 8 PM and 9 PM (Beijing local time)

• Call any landline number in Malaysia for free or any mobile number for 3 US cents from Monday to Friday between 8 PM and 9 PM (Kuala Lumpur local time)

• Call any landline number in Nigeria for 4.5 US cents or any mobile number for 4.5 US cents from Monday to Friday between 8 PM and 9 PM (Lagos local time)

• Call any landline number in Germany for free or any mobile number for 8 US cents from Monday to Friday between 8 PM and 9 PM (Berlin local time)

MO-Call is a clever mobile and PC application that is supported on over 2,240 mobile handsets including Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Java, Symbian and Windows Mobile and all major computer Operating Systems. With MO-Call users can save up to 90% on local and international calls, send cheap SMS and make free VoIP calls, on supported handsets to other online MO-Callers.

“We are constantly looking for ways to add value to MO-Call for our customers. To be able to give our customers the opportunity to talk for free or very cheap to their family and friends abroad, 60 minutes a day for a whole week, enables us to continue to reward our customers who have supported us and to make their MO-Calling happier,” says Andrew Reid, CEO of Morodo.

Morodo news is available at the company website: www.morodogroup.com
MO-Call specific related news is available from the MO-Call blog: www.mo-call.com/blog

Media and Blogger Contact
Aleksandra Beljin (e-mail: aleksandra.beljin@morodo.co.uk)
Morodo Limited

Morodo: Over-The-Top Service Providers entering the Mobile Ecosystem

The Morodo Team — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:02:36 +0000

Last week, in a definite ground shaking move, Sprint and Google announced Sprint was enabling its subscribers to use their mobile number as a Google Voice number, effectively opening the door to Google and allowing them to provide enhanced cloud/telco 2.0 functionality to Sprint subscribers and international call revenues.

Google Voice is a service currently only available in the US. Users receive a single geographic number that can be routed simultaneously to several phones and/or to the PC, with enhanced messaging features such as voice to text translation, as well as call filtering.

The Sprint/Google agreement allows a Sprint customer to adopt their Google number as their mobile number. That means only one number on a business card to service all your calling and messaging needs. What does this partnership mean? It means Sprint has effectively handed over to Google Voice all advanced call management services, as well as revenues from international calls. The service thus goes further than previous mobile/VOIP tie-ups (i.e. Verizon and 3UK with Skype), by not being restricted to particular devices and encompassing full service management.

What does this mean for Morodo/MO-Call?

We have no doubt other mobile operators will be pondering their future in a world where such ‘over the top’ services are proliferating, offering much better functionality/lower costs than the network operators themselves.

What Morodo is part of and what we are seeing is a classic case of low-end disruptive innovation.

With reference to this slide from Morgan Stanley’s updated State of the Internet report, Morodo is a classic Low-End Disruptor. At stage one, the product at the low end of the market was MO-Call’s cheap International calling, which displaced traditional Telco rates and calling cards by being both cheaper and better than services offered by these incumbents. As these services improve by adding services and refining usability, volume grows which causes disruption in the market as consumers accept the innovative alternatives / substitutes.

Conclusion: This ‘over the top’ model is undoubtedly here to stay. What better way to fight Over-The-Top services than to embrace them by bringing them into the Mobile Ecosystem (via joint venture / strategic alliance or acquisition)? Over-The-Top service providers have so much to offer both fixed line and Mobile incumbents. Afterall, within any ecosystem, both parties must prosper!

Another conclusion: Difficult or not, follow your convictions.

This was an article we read about perseverance being a necessary ingredient to success.

“Just because someone announced a new product or raised more funds, that doesn’t mean your strategy is wrong. It means you need to fight harder in the marketplace. It means you need to keep fine-tuning your strategy, but not change it. “

We embellish this belief!