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July 06, 2006
VOIP Startup Wengo Expects Breakeven Next Year
One of the speaker's names we see popping up at tech conferences this year is David Bitton. He is the entrepreneur behind Wengo, an IP telephony and chat service provider in France, and OpenWengo, the open source SIP-phone project which powers Wengo, among others.
One of the things that his presentation will contain is the message that Britton expects Wengo to hit breakeven next year. He recently disclosed that nugget in an interview he did with ZDNET in France, adding that on that day Wengo had 900,000 subscribers, about 2.3 percent of which have taken up the premium telephony and messaging service options.
It is a lot like Skype, although it doesn't utilize P2P communication. Om Malik says it more like Zoep that comes out The Netherlands. It's now on our radar, too.
Wengo is partly owned by Neuf Cegetel, an alternative telco in France. It has taken a 67 percent stake in the venture.
Read - VoIP: Wengo devient multiplate-forme et interopérable avec les outils de messagerie (zdnet)
Read - David Bitton Speaker Profile (oscon)
Read - Firefox Goes VoIP, With Extensions (gigaom)
Posted on July 6, 2006 07:46 AM | Posted to VoIP | Permalink
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