Cable / Telecom News

Trading ads for long distance


TEL AVIV, Israel – A company called Parrot-Media today launched Poketalk, a new free global calling service in Canada and the United States. This service lets users make free calls from any existing landline or mobile phone, to any other phone, locally and internationally. To use the service, customers must provide their own number and the number and the number they’re calling and Poketalk connects the two phones. No devices, headsets, or software downloads are necessary. There is no registration fee nor monthly fee required. The Poketalk service subsidizes the calls by displaying targeted advertising on the phone’s screen during...