Foonz
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Foonz offered free group conference calling from any cell or home phone. Users set up a free account, added people to a contact list, then dialed their personal foonz number to start an instant group call, with text-message invitations sent to participants, or to leave a group voice message.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Product or service closed
20 May 2009 published Foonz’s user notice that the free Foonz VoIP conference-call service would be suspended as of 22 May 2009 after the company could not maintain its telephone-carrier relationship or arrange a new vendor; coverage treated the free-minutes model as unsustainable.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
The Foonz service was suspended in 2009.
- 02
No reliable loss figure with a clear subject, period and basis exists, so no loss amount is recorded.