Nimbuzz know-how: Mangrove Capital Partners based in Luxembourg one of today’s leading, global VoIP providers. Nimbuzz is a Netherlands-based technology firm with a focus on VoIP and telecommunications applications: the Nimbuzz mobile Messaging, Chat and Voice service, is available as a J2ME client for mobile phones and as a Windows client for PCs.
Here are 4 questions to Elisabetta Castriota, Marketing Manager Nimbuzz:
More about Nimbuzz ?
Nimbuzz wants to become a unique platform which through the people can chat and call all buddies in their list also if they haven’t Nimbuzz application. What Skype offers on personal computer, Nimbuzz offers on mobile phone.The Nimbuzz patented technology lets users call other users simply by clicking their nickname in their Nimbuzz list.With this request, a local GSM connection is established with one of the company’s domestic access numbers. Then the call is converted to a VOIP connection with the other party through one of the company’s central switches located in 35 countries at the moment.
What is Nimbuzz business model ?
These are the main Nimbuzz revenue systems: Nimbuzz Out (Voice): the users buy a prepaid traffic (not available yet), Revenue share on Voice Traffic (termination fee on local access point)
What are the projects, additional features we’re preparing ?
Roadmap:Within September 2007 should be ready: the integration with Yahoo, ICQ, Skype, Nimbuzz Out, the users can buy a prepaid credit to call fix and mobile lines (not Nmibuzz) too. Version for almost Symbian, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, Palm devices, Send E-mail trough Nimbuzz, File sharing system
What are the current users’ feedbacks, we learning on the service’s usage ?
We have just created a test community (http://www.nimbuzz.com/testcommunity/login.php) to get the feedback from the users: suggestions, remarks or brand new ideas. It’s a place to test the app, where people can meet one another, exchange their opinions and especially tell their ideas to improve Nimbuzz. Trough our test community we can understand recurrent issues and solve them. The current feedbacks concern the use of Nimbuzz mobile voice in countries where this service is not available yet. In fact Nimbuzz Voice is worldwide available for the PC client and you can use Nimbuzz Voice in 35 countries with any internet capable mobile phone http://www.nimbuzz.com/en/features/callsatlocalcost/
But it’s a great pleasure to receive every day a lot of positive comments too. Like a user from the USA who simply told me “Found Nimbuzz very good, I used other systems but now making all my friends switch to Nimbuzz”.