Here are 4 questions to Greg Woock CEO Pinger :

Can you tell us more about your service?
Pinger lets you trade voice messages with anyone’s mobile phone in over 20 countries. Users simply call a local Pinger number
, enter the number of the person they wish to leave a message for, talk and hang up. Pinger is better than voicemail because there are no interruptions from ringing phones or lengthy voicemail instructions to follow. Messages can be saved forever and forwarded to others, as desired. Pinger is more personal than text messages because you are using your voice. You can send messages long distance without having to worry about time zones, expense or interrupting people – all by simply dialing your local Pinger number. Plus you can send a Pinger message to a group of people with one call. Pinger is free and works on any mobile phone around the world.*

What is your business model?
In the US, Pinger’s revenue comes from advertising.

What are the projects, additional features you’re preparing?
Pinger is always looking for new ways to connect people together and enable them to communicate and share information about each other via their mobile phones. In the US we have created a public directory, accessible via wap and phone interface, that enables users to find new people to send Pinger messages to.

What are the current users’ feedback, your learnings on the service’s usage?
Feedback thus far has been very positive. People like the idea of being able to use their voices to communicate without having to worry about the expense and inconvenience of changing time zones and long distances. In the US, users are very excited about being able to easily discover new users to send Pinger messages to.

*List of countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Transylvania, UK, US