Hoiio Blog

With a view to be the best communication provider for smart phones, we are lowering down our IDD rates (while maintain the premium quality). We call this, democratising voice. Our first target is, Malaysia. Therefore, earlier this week, we posted a question on Facebook.

We really love it when our users are engaged with us by leaving their “thumbs” and commenting on our posts :).

Few days after that, we did what we said. We slash Hoiio calling rates from Singapore to Malaysia by 30%. With SGD 10, now you can call Malaysia for more than 3.5 hours. All rates below are in SGD cents.

Now, that we’ve lowered down our rates, now the ball is in your hand. Help us to spread this to your friends who call to Malaysia. Let them know that Hoiio is one of the best communication provider around.

Btw, if you have not likened us on Facebook, then you should! Visit our Facebook page and engage with us there.

Dear Hoiio Friends,

Happy Hari Raya. Send a Hari Raya greeting to your family and friends in Indonesia. At only SGD 8.8 cents/SMS, you can save up to 45% when you send SMS to Indonesia using Hoiio.

With our new SMS partner, we are able to deliver SMS to Indonesia more reliably.
“Like” us on Facebook to interact with us or to show that you like what we are doing :).

Have a blessed holiday,
Team Hoiio

Cheers to the first apps born from the Hoiio Connect Program (Beta). The baby is named Textuate.com and is co-created by the good folks from SmartLoans.sg. Kudos =)

Textuate.com is a SMS broadcast and marketing app in the cloud that Hoiio users can access and use with their Hoiio credits. This is a cool app with advanced functions such as personalized messages, scheduler, delivery reports and more.

Simple, pay per use and no gimmick. Click here and Enjoy =)

About SmartLoans.sg & Catapult Ventures
SmartLoans.sg was built and developed by Catapult Ventures Pte Ltd – an Internet company based in Singapore that combines the sound business acumen, strong technical expertise and keen consumer financial knowledge of passionate and driven founders whom have dedicated their time to run the next generation of web applications.

About Hoiio Connect Program (Beta)
Hoiio Connect Program is a revenue sharing and developer partnership program that aims to engage developers working on Hoiio Open API to join us in co-creation of advanced communication services for everyone. More apps with partners are currently in the pipeline. (e.g. IVR, Fax, Conference and more) Whatever you can dream of in communication, we can create. Cheers =)

Today, my grandma got a bill shock and I got a bitter taste in my mouth.

One of my cousin (my grandma’s favorite) is now based in Australia. My grandma started to miss him and began calling him from her old tradition candy bar phone everyday.

Being illiterate, my grandma only know how to dial a number saved in her phonebook. Hence, after hours of calling, she now got the first bill shock of her life.

Imagine how a thrifty old lady will react after getting a bill that is 50% her monthly living expenses.

Ouch ! Ouch ! Ouch !

Being a geek working on Voice over IP technologies over the last 10 years of my life, I felt bitter that years of technology advancements in Hoiio and Skype have not been able to help my grandma.

Note to self: I must create something more simple for my grandma to use. Something that will help connect all the grandparents to their jet-setting grandchildren seamlessly.

From a mere 20K users in January, Hoiio registered user base has grown to over 160K users.

For the first time ever, most of the new Hoiio users are based in Middle East and is using Hoiio Chat for FREE mobile messaging to add simple convenience to their daily lives.

In this, I have learned an interesting (and very late) lesson on the concept of FREE.

With our first taste of FREE-dom, we are now working on something FREE and hopefully much BIGGER for our Hoiio users. Stay tuned =)

PS: If any of our beloved users guessed correctly on what we are building on, I have prepared a personal gift for him/her. Feel free to make your best guess on our facebook & twitter. Cheers.