yak4ever
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Yak4Ever, formerly AllFreeCalls, routed international calls through rural telephone operators to offer free calling.
02 / yak4ever FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
Founder Pat Phelan said major carriers stopped paying the fees that supported the service. The team covered costs for several months but could not sustain the losses and therefore closed it.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Service relaunched and closed again
AllFreeCalls stopped in February, returned as Yak4Ever in May with another operator, and announced its final closure in November 2007.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
Material for this section is being gathered and checked. It will appear here once ready.
Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Carrier payments stopped
- 02
Team covered operating costs
- 03
Losses could not be sustained
- 04
Free-calling service closed