What would mobile telephony services look like if they were invented today?
To answer this question we spoke to fonYou, one of the winners of this year’s Mobile Premier Awards, at the Mobile World Congress. Co-founder and CFO Clemens Rossberg explained us the company’s mission to reinvent mobile telephony for the Internet era. The company’s business model is called ‘Online Mobile Telephony’ and allows users to configure their mobile telephony services online, giving them access to call records, SMS and voicemails as if they were emails. Users don’t need a SIM Card, they simply pick one of the available numbers and can configure all services online. This service is not only interesting for businesses, but for any user in the era of social media. It lets you draw statistics about calls and messages, so you can easily find out who your ‘real friends’ are by analysing who calls you most even the least. fonYou is an interesting example of how mobile and online services continue to merge, following the increasing demand of users to access their content and services anywhere, anytime and from any device. What services and features you would to invent?
About fonYou
fonYou launched as an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) in Spain on July 9, 2009 after signing an MVNO agreement with Telefónica the year before.
fonYou is a real telecom operator with its own core network and service platforms. This technical architecture has been designed, developed and implemented by fonYou’s Innovation Factory, the company’s internal R&D team. Being in charge of its own technical platforms makes fonYou technologically independent and is the basis for the company’s competitiveness and differentiation in the market.
Apart from being an MVNO with ongoing operations in Spain, fonYou also licences its services as a product (the “Online Mobile Telephony Platform”) to other mobile operators around the globe.
