Monday, May 16, 2011

New Languages

We have just released version 1.2.5 including 5 new languages: Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese and Russian. The response has been almost immediate. We have observed 5 to 10 times more downloads in those countries. The effort will pay for itself within a month.

The experience has been so good that we will release 5 more languages next month. In a similar effort to become a higher quality international solution, we are adding more servers across the world. Having more servers reduces the call latency or the time it takes before you hear what somebody is saying. If that time is too big, then it's hard to know when somebody has finished talking and it becomes difficult to negotiate who has talking priority.

With 14 languages and servers covering all continents, we are quietly becoming an international carrier with nothing to envy to the big telcos. On the other hand, they can only watch us grow and wonder how we can manage to provide calls so much cheaper than them.

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