HELLO & WELCOME

[dibts]

Can anyone tell me how do free softphones make money when most of their subscribers just acquire their free service? I know they have the paid service, but what exactly do they get from those who only wants the free one?

[WelshPaul]

Most softfone developers don't offer any services, they just provide a tool to access services provided by others.

Think of it as a mobile phone... A mobile phone provides you the means to access and use a mobile network. Without any mobile network a mobile phone is useless.

Softfone developers make money in a variety of ways, donations, advertisements, addons or by payment of a premium app.

[dibts]

Thank you! I've always been curious about it. So they serve more as a gateway then. Interesting.

[sbatz1972]

I do not think these softphone services offering exclusively free service are the right way to go. After all you get what you pay for. I do not think the softphone company would have the funds to update their services. I think that it would be a waste of time to go with these services.

[jamesbonner]

All free softphone services are basing on mobile network (3G) or internet connection like WiFi, so if you don't have one of those it's useless as WelshPaul said. That's a small list of free softphones : Viber, Skype, WhatsApp, but you still need Internet in your phone so it's useless !

[Sunflogun]

I think the whole point here is, considering we are already paying for the internet, we might as well use Voip and don't spend money on calls as well.